Like a perfectly timed high note in a torch song, Bessie doesn't tiptoe into queerness as filmmaker Dee Rees gives us a love letter to Black, bisexual brilliance. After all, when history forgets our ...

Tika Sumpter’s career has steadily been on the rise, featured in Whitney Houston’s last film, Sparkle, cast back in December 2014 as First Lady Michelle Obama, and now earning the role of Lucille, ...

HBO's Lucinda Martinez talks about Solange and Janelle Monae's surprise music tour and why we're celebrating Bessie Smith's work today. Tika Sumpter kissed a girl, and she doesn’t get what the big ...

She recalled watching the television as a child and thinking, “Oh my gosh, I want to be in that box [the TV],” Sumpter told uInterview. “I just remember watching Phylicia Rashad on the Cosby Show, and ...