EXCLUSIVE: Helmer Julie Dash has signed on to direct an upcoming biopic on Rosa Parks, which will center on the decade before her seminal moment on a Montgomery bus, when Parks, already an activist of her time, sought justice for 24-year-old wife and mother Recy Taylor, who was brutally gang-raped by six white men in…

Cohen Media Group’s Cohen Film Collection has acquired director Julie Dash’s seminal Daughters of the Dust, and will re-release it fully restored to theaters in Fall 2016 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary.

The first feature directed by an African American woman to receive general theatrical release, Daughters of the…