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In Miss Juneteenth, from first-time director Channing Godfrey Peoples, Nicole Beharie plays Turquoise Jones, a young, hard-working single mother and ex-beauty queen who enters her teenage daughter in the Miss Juneteenth pageant in hopes of preventing her from making the same mistakes she herself once made. The pageant…

Nicole Beharie is revealing more details about her shocking 2016 exit from the Fox series Sleepy Hollow, a departure that sparked an uproar by fans over the exit of the show’s female black lead. Beharie revealed in 2019 that she left the show, in part, because of an auto-immune disease. In recent candid interviews…

When debuting writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth premiered at January’s Sundance Film Festival, I can imagine she had no idea how significant the title and subject matter of her first movie would be by the time it was released on June 19, the holiday named in honor of the day in 1865 when slaves…

First-time feature director Channing Godfrey Peoples makes her Sundance Film Festival debut with Miss Juneteenth, a film that spotlights the annual Juneteenth celebration — a day that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — and its staple beauty…