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Back in April, “The Twilight Zone,” based on the 1959 Rod Serling series of the same name, returned to television with Jordan Peele as the narrator and executive producer of the series. As part of the series redevelopment, several Hollywood superstars signed on to be part of the project, including …

‘Native Son’ is the heartbreaking story of a black man succumbing to circumstances intended to hold him down in America. In the story, the main character Bigger Thomas accidentally kills a white woman then ends up raping and killing his black girlfriend, who loved him tremendously. The rape/murder scene in …

The film adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic novel “Native Son” is set to debut on HBO in April. “Native Son” was first published in 1940 and told the story of “Bigger Thomas,” a young Black America man from Chicago who was jailed for the rape and murder of a woman. …