*Margaret Avery still remembers the first time she read the script for “Riverbend,” the 1989 action drama about three Black Vietnam veterans who lead a Southern town to stand up to a racist sheriff.

*Appearing on “Laugh-In” (1967), “Which Way Is Up?” (1977), “The Color Purple” (1985), “Heatwave” (1990), “Being Mary Jane” (2013) and other productions, Margaret Avery‘s incredible career spans over ...

On December 16, 1985, The Color Purple premiered in New York City. The Steven Spielberg-directed film was adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-wining novel and would go on to gross a reported ...

Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was released in 1985. The movie starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Oprah Winfrey as Sofia, and Margaret Avery as Shug. Here's ...

Last week, Brandy debuted the video for her brand new single “Beggin and Pleadin.” After dropping the song earlier this year to coincide with the premiere of her new BET sitcom Zoe Ever After and ...

In The Color Purple movie musical, Taraji P. Henson will take on the role of Shug Avery, first played on the big screen in 1985 by Margaret Avery Taraji P. Henson is bringing the character of Shug ...

The family holiday pic directed by Dawn Wilkinson will be timed for release during the new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Dear White People star ...

Winfrey has been with her partner, Stedman Graham, since 1986.

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Avery, The Walking Dead‘s Xander Berkeley and Neal McDonough have been cast in Screen Gems‘ upcoming thriller Proud Mary, starring Taraji P. Henson as hit woman Mary Goodwin. Danny ...

Long before #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was embroiled in a similar controversy after Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film, “The Color Purple,” received 11 Oscar nominations ...