The life of Gordon Parks is a study in self-reliance and determination. Moreover, it has served as a blueprint for many people on how to overcome racial, social, and economic barriers within America. From a childhood characterized by poverty, Parks...

Gordon Parks is a photographer, journalist, and film director who has written books that in their way celebrate the black family, black strength, and the determination of blacks to survive. Also a composer and poet, he is a versatile man who has tried...

Multi-faceted photojournalist, Gordon Parks (born 1912), documented many of the greatest images of the 20th century. He expanded his artistic pursuits from visual images to literature with his first novel, The Learning Tree, which he then adapted into...

The festival screened 70 films this year, including VH1’s Last Days of Left Eye, a full-length vivid documentary recounting the final month in the life of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes of TLC. The festival also screened The Will to Survive – The Story of the...

Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2007. There are 299 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.On this date:In...

LIFE magazine, the thin Parade-like weekly newspaper supplement. The company will continue the LIFE brand online, and in books. Full release afer the jump TIME INC. TO CLOSE LIFE MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENT LIFE TO LAUNCH MASSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTAL Collection Contains 10 Million Photos; 97%...

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in America. Once each minute in this country, someone dies from it. And, all too often, early symptoms go unrecognized until too late.PBS is spotlighting this crisis _ and what positive health steps you can take _ on...

Humphrey Bogart is alive and well and living in Harlem. His skin is black, but he lives with it. His private eye affairs are still more quixotic than lucrative. His lip still curls when the police chief threatens to withdraw his licence unless he cooperates. Laconic, sardonic, and only just on the right side of the law, he is now called John Shaft…. Dark alleys and red herrings, exotic sirens and prowling gunmen, sinister encounters and strange alliances, all the familiar icons come tumbling out as e...

[Most] of our pictures with and about Negroes these days lack authentic black backgrounds and thinking—and are a disappointment. Instead of just making films with some Negro actors, the studios would be wise to begin their planning with Negro culture, realistic Negro themes, and then select their working staff who will make the picture and be in it. To the credit of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts they did just that in signing the famous photographer Gordon Parks to film his autobiographical novel, The Learn...

John Shaft, private eye, aspires to be a steely black version of Sam Spade but more closely achieves an ironic, dimpled James Bond. Shaft's Big Score … clearly is no "Maltese Falcon" or even a "Goldfinger."… [However, the film is] a rousing and entertaining thriller, better than the original and far superior to all those imitations that Shaft's success has spawned…. The film is directed with style and vigorous pace by Gordon Parks, who celebrate...