Chi-Raq

…films include Lee’s crime dramedy Chi-Raq (2015) and the action adventure Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018). Bassett also played the mother of the character T’Challa (the Black Panther) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s action adventures Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black

…bravura take on gang violence, Chi-Raq (2015). He subsequently hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016 and 2020, and for each episode he won an Emmy Award as outstanding guest actor in a comedy series; both SNL appearances came after a presidential election, and his opening monologues about the vote garnered…

…the Peloponnesian War is ended—Chi-Raq (2015) uses comedy, music, and spoken verse to explore the epidemic of gang violence in Chicago in the early 21st century. The film was the first to be produced by Amazon Studios. Controversial because of its alternatingly irreverent and confrontational tone, the film was…

…gang shooting in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq (2015); and as Angela Wright, a woman who claimed to have been sexually harassed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the HBO TV film Confirmation (2016). In 2015 Hudson made her Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color…

…for his roles in Lee’s Chi-Raq, a satire on gang violence in Chicago, and Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, in which Jackson starred as a Black bounty hunter encountering racism and extreme violence in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The following year he starred as a villain seeking immortality…

…gang leader in Lee’s controversial Chi-Raq (2015), about gang violence in Chicago. His subsequent credits included Armed Response (2017) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019), a biopic starring Eddie Murphy as a blaxploitation star. He reteamed with Murphy in the comedy Coming 2 America (2021).