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Black Reel Awards of 2017, the Glossary

The 17th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony, presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best films of 2016, took place on February 16, 2017, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EST (5:00p.m. PST).^[1]

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Aja Naomi King

Aja Naomi King (born January 11, 1985) is an American actress.

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Alex Hibbert

Alexander Piers William Hibbert (born 19 April 1986) is a British polar expedition leader, public speaker, author and photographer.

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Alex Rubens

Alex Rubens (born March 25, 1978) is an American writer.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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American Crime (TV series)

American Crime is an American anthology crime drama television series created by John Ridley that aired on ABC from March 5, 2015, to April 30, 2017.

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American Honey (film)

American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold.

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American Horror Story: Roanoke

The sixth season of the American horror anthology television series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke, follows supernatural experiences around a haunted house and its surroundings in North Carolina.

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André 3000

André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), better known as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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André Holland

André Holland (born December 28, 1979) is an American actor.

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Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor.

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Angela Bassett

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

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Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress.

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Anthony Hemingway

Anthony Maurice Hemingway (born 1977) is an American television and film director.

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Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua (born May 30, 1965) is an American film director known for his work in the action and thriller genres.

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Ashton Sanders

Ashton Durrand Sanders (born October 24, 1995) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of teenage Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight (2016).

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Audra McDonald

Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American singer and actress.

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August Wilson

August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.

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Ava DuVernay

Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.

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Ayanda

Ayanda is a 2015 South African film directed by Sara Blecher and starring Fulu Mugovhani, OC Ukeje, and Nthati Moshesh.

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Back to Life (Alicia Keys song)

"Back to Life" is a song by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, released on September 1, 2016, for the soundtrack of the sports drama film Queen of Katwe, directed by Mira Nair.

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Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work.

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Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.

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Bilal (American singer)

Bilal Sayeed Oliver (born August 23, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director

The Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director is an award presented annually by the Black Reel Awards (BRA). Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Director are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Ensemble are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film

The Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film is one of the Black Reel Awards presented annually. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Song

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Song. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Song are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, Adapted or Original are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress

The Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress was an award presented annually by the Black Reel Awards (BRAs). Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie or Limited Series. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Award for Outstanding Voice Performance are black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Awards

The Black Reel Awards, or BRAs, is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in film (FAAAF) to recognize excellence of African Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora, in the global film industry, as assessed by the foundation’s voting membership.

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Black Reel Awards of 2016

The 2016 Black Reel Awards, which annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films, were announced on Thursday, February 18, 2016. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and black Reel Awards of 2016 are 2016 in American cinema and black Reel Awards.

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Black Reel Awards of 2018

The 18th Annual Black Reel Awards ceremony, presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) and honoring the best films of 2017, took place on February 23, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. EST (5:00p.m. PST). Black Reel Awards of 2017 and Black Reel Awards of 2018 are black Reel Awards.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Chad Hartigan

Chad Hartigan (born August 31, 1982 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Cyprus-born, Irish-American filmmaker and actor.

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Christine Swanson

Christine Swanson (born July 15, 1971) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

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Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 14, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois.

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Confirmation (film)

Confirmation is a 2016 American television political thriller film, directed by Rick Famuyiwa and written by Susannah Grant.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Courtney B. Vance

Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor.

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Divines (film)

Divines is a 2016 drama film directed by Houda Benyamina.

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Don Cheadle

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.

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Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name the Rock, is an American actor, professional wrestler, and businessman.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Emayatzy Corinealdi

Emayatzy Corinealdi (born January 14, 1980) is an American actress.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Eye of the Storm (2015 film)

Eye of the Storm (L'oeil du cyclone) is a 2015 Burkinabé psychological drama film about child soldiers.

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Ezra Edelman

Ezra Benjamin Edelman (born August 6, 1974) is an American documentary producer and director.

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Fences (film)

Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play of the same name.

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Finding Dory

Finding Dory is a 2016 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (Fox eXtended) is an American pay television channel owned by FX Networks, LLC, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Ghostbusters (2016 film)

Ghostbusters (also marketed as Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) is a 2016 American supernatural comedy film directed by Paul Feig, who co-wrote it with Katie Dippold.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Henry Jackman

Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is an English composer.

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Hermon Hailay

Hermon Hailay is an Ethiopian film writer/director.

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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.

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History Channel

History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.

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I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 German-American documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House.

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Idris Elba

Idrissa Akuna Elba (born 6 September 1972) is an English actor, rapper, singer, and DJ.

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Jackie Robinson (miniseries)

Jackie Robinson is a 2016 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

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Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe Robinson (born December 1, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress.

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Jean of the Joneses

Jean of the Joneses is a 2016 Canadian comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Stella Meghie (in her feature directorial debut).

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Jeanne McCarthy

Jeanne McCarthy is an American casting director.

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Jenn Shaw

Jennifer Jeanine Shaw (born September 15, 1983) is an American film director and producer.

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Joe Robert Cole

Joe Robert Cole (born January 1, 1980) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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John Legend

John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, and actor.

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John Ridley

John Ridley IV (born October 1, 1964) is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor.

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Jordan Peele

Jordan Haworth Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker.

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Jovan Adepo

Jovan Adepo is a British-American actor.

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Keanu (film)

Keanu (also known as Cat Boys) is a 2016 American buddy action comedy film directed by Peter Atencio and written by Jordan Peele and Alex Rubens.

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Keesha Sharp

Keesha Ulricka Sharp (née Fleth; born June 9, 1973) is an American actress and television director.

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Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture.

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Kerry Washington

Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) Sidebar: (County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health).

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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music featuring several of Billie Holiday's most famous songs.

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Lalah Hathaway

Eulaulah Donyll "Lalah" Hathaway (born December 16, 1968) is an American singer.

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Lamb (2015 Ethiopian film)

Lamb is a 2015 Ethiopian drama film directed by Yared Zeleke.

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Annette Leslie Jones Additional July 31, 2017.

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Lifetime (TV network)

Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company.

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Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story

Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story is a 2016 American biographical musical drama film directed by Christine Swanson and written by Swanson and Rhonda Baraka.

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Loving (2016 film)

Loving is a 2016 American biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

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Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan and Mexican actress.

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Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali (born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor.

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Malachi Kirby

Malachi Kirby is a British actor and writer.

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Manchester by the Sea (film)

Manchester by the Sea is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan that stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges.

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Marcelo Zarvos

Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and composer.

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Michael Ealy

Michael David Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, is an American actor.

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Michael K. Williams

Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021) was an American actor.

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Miles Ahead (film)

Miles Ahead is a 2015 American biographical-drama film directed by Don Cheadle in his feature directorial debut, which Cheadle co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Stephen J. Rivele, and Christopher Wilkinson, which interprets the life and compositions of jazz musician Miles Davis.

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Miss Sharon Jones!

Miss Sharon Jones! is a 2015 documentary film about the singer Sharon Jones.

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Moana (2016 film)

Moana (also known as Vaiana or Oceania in some markets), is a 2016 American animated musical fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Moonlight (2016 film)

Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

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Morris from America

Morris from America is a 2016 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Chad Hartigan, produced by Martin Heisler, Sara Murphy, Adele Romanski, and Gabriele Simon, and starring Craig Robinson, Markees Christmas, Carla Juri, Lina Keller, and Jakub Gierszał.

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Nana Obiri Yeboah

Nana Obiri - Yeboah (born March 28, 1983) is a Ghanaian film director.

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Naomie Harris

Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English actress.

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Nate Parker

Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Nicholas Britell

Nicholas Britell (born October 17, 1980) is an American film and television composer.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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O.J.: Made in America

O.J.: Made in America is a 2016 American documentary, produced and directed by Ezra Edelman for ESPN Films and their 30 for 30 series.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Parker Sawyers

Parker Sawyers (born May 24, 1983) is an American actor.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Pete Chatmon

Pete Chatmon (born June 1, 1977 in New York City) is an American director.

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Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (born April 5, 1973), often known mononymously as Pharrell, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and fashion designer.

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Price of Love (film)

Price of Love is a 2015 Ethiopian drama film directed by Hermon Hailay which was screened in the Official Selection at 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Queen of Katwe

Queen of Katwe is a 2016 American biographical sports drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by William Wheeler.

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Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck (born 9 September 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian filmmaker of both documentary and feature films.

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Regina King

Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971) is an American actress and director.

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Rhonda Baraka

Rhonda Baraka (born March 9, 1962) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

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Rhyon Nicole Brown

Rhyon Nicole Brown is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Robert Glasper

Robert Andre Glasper (born April 6, 1978) is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger.

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Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009.

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Roots (2016 miniseries)

Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an African man who is shipped to North America as a slave and his descendants.

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Rudolf Buitendach

Rudolf Buitendach (or Rudolf B.) is a South African born film director and editor.

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Ruth Negga

Ruth Negga (born 4 May 1981) is an Irish actress known for her roles in the AMC television series Preacher (2016–2019) and the film Loving (2016).

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Sara Blecher

Sara Blecher (born Gauteng) is a South African director and producer.

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Sasha Lane

Sasha Bianca Lane (born September 29, 1995) is an American actress.

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Sékou Traoré

Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso.

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Secrets and Lies (American TV series)

Secrets and Lies is an American mystery anthology television series that aired on ABC from March 1, 2015 to December 4, 2016.

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings were an American funk and soul band signed to Daptone Records.

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Sophie Okonedo

Sophie Okonedo (born 11 August 1968) is a British actress and narrator.

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Southside with You

Southside with You is a 2016 American biographical romantic drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Tanne, in his feature film directorial debut.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author.

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Stephen McKinley Henderson

Stephen McKinley Henderson (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor.

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Sterling K. Brown

Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor.

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Steven Baigelman

Steven J. Baigelman is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and film director.

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Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le

Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le is a 2016 American biographical television drama film directed by Jackie Cooke, starring Rhyon Nicole Brown as Michel'le, Curtis Hamilton as Dr. Dre and Jamie Kennedy as N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller.

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T.I.

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip (often stylized as TIP), is an American rapper.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Taraji P. Henson

Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress.

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Teyonah Parris

Teyonah Parris (born September 22, 1987) is an American actress.

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The Birth of a Nation (2016 film)

The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 historical drama film written and directed by Nate Parker in his directorial debut. Black Reel Awards of 2017 and The Birth of a Nation (2016 film) are 2016 in American cinema.

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The Cursed Ones

The Cursed Ones is a 2015 British film that was directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah and produced by Nicholas K. Lory.

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The Fits (film)

The Fits is a 2015 American drama film directed by Anna Rose Holmer in her feature debut.

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The Jungle Book (2016 film)

The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Justin Marks and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

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The Land (2016 film)

The Land is a 2016 American crime drama film written and directed by Steven Caple Jr. The film stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Moisés Arias, Rafi Gavron, Ezri Walker, Kim Coates, Linda Emond, Natalie Martinez, Machine Gun Kelly, Erykah Badu and Michael K. Williams.

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The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)

The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American Western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk.

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The Night Of

The Night Of is a 2016 American eight-part crime drama miniseries based on the first season of Criminal Justice, a 2008 British series.

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The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

The first season of American Crime Story, titled The People v. O. J. Simpson, revolves around the O. J. Simpson murder trial, as well as the combination of prosecution confidence, defense witnesses, and the Los Angeles Police Department's history with African-American people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reel_Awards_of_2017

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