Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a biographical drama TV movie inspired by the biography Dorothy Dandridge written by Earl Mills. Martha Coolidge directed the film, and Scott Abbott and Shonda Rhimes ...

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, ...

The Best Blacktresses: 2000s — In 2002, Berry became the first, and still only, Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar, but what, if anything, did it do for her career? Berry earned every ounce of ...

Berry couldn’t have been prouder of the performance she delivered in Monster’s Ball. But a few of her fans felt movies like Dorothy Dandridge and Queen deserved Oscar recognition more. Dorothy ...