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Black Nativity (film), the Glossary

Black Nativity is a 2013 American musical drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, based on Langston Hughes' 1961 play of the same name.^[1]

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2010s Christmas drama films
African-American musical drama films
Films directed by Kasi Lemmons

AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog, is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present.

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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress.

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As (song)

"As" is a song written and performed by American singer and musician Stevie Wonder from his eighteenth album, Songs in the Key of Life (1976).

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Black Nativity

Black Nativity is an adaptation of the Nativity story by Langston Hughes, performed by an entirely black cast.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Celine Rattray

Celine Rattray (born 1975) is an English film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Ensemble cast

In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer and director.

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Galt Niederhoffer

Galt Niederhoffer (born October 2, 1976) is an American producer, director and novelist.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Ingenious Media (styled as INGENIθUS) is a division of London-based Ingenious Capital Management Limited, also known as Ingenious.

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Jacob Latimore

Jacob O'Neal Latimore (born August 10, 1996) is an American actor, singer and dancer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer, actress, and television personality.

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Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons, February 24, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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Laura Karpman

Laura Anne Karpman (born March 1, 1959) is an American composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall.

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List of black films of the 2010s

The following is a list of black films that were released in the 2010s.

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List of Christmas films

Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television.

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Luke James (singer)

Luke James Boyd (born June 13, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Maven Screen Media is an American film production company founded by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray as Maven Pictures in 2011.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature.

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Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paramount Streaming

Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+.

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Raphael Saadiq

Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

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Rotimi (actor)

Olurotimi Akinosho (born November 30, 1988), known professionally as Rotimi, is a Nigerian-American actor and singer. He is known for his role as Darius Morrison on the Starz series Boss, and as Andre Coleman on Power, then as Charles on The Chi.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Searchlight Pictures

Searchlight Pictures, Inc. is an American film production and distribution arm of The Walt Disney Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment division.

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Silent Night

"Silent Night" (italic) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.

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Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", also "Motherless Child", is a traditional spiritual.

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Sweet Little Jesus Boy

"Sweet Little Jesus Boy" is a spiritual Christmas song composed by Robert MacGimsey and published in 1934 by Carl Fischer Music.

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T. D. Jakes

Thomas Dexter Jakes (born June 9, 1957) is an American non-denominational Christian pastor and motivational speaker.

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Terilyn A. Shropshire

Terilyn A. Shropshire is an American motion picture and television editor.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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Trudie Styler

Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress, director, and film producer.

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TSG Entertainment

TSG Entertainment Finance LLC, doing business as TSG Entertainment, is an American film financing entity.

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Tyrese Gibson

Tyrese Darnell Gibson (born December 30, 1978) is an American R&B singer and actor.

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Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall is an American actor, film director, and television director.

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William Horberg

William Horberg is an American film producer and chair emeritus of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast.

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45th NAACP Image Awards

The 45th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music and literature during the 2013 calendar year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nativity_(film)

Also known as Black Nativity (2013 film).

Black Nativity (film), the Glossary

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See also

2010s Christmas drama films

African-American musical drama films

Films directed by Kasi Lemmons

References