This year marks 40 years since the “The Color Purple” hit theaters. Two writers from “The Root” debate whether you can call the Oscar-nominated picture a “Black film.”

Whoopi Goldberg enjoyed massive critical acclaim and scored an Oscar nomination for best actress for her first major film role, in 1985's The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg. But even after she became a movie star practically overnight ...

She previously revealed in June that she landed a role on the popular soap 'Un Posto Al Sole'

For those who have not seen Sister Act, Goldberg plays a lounge singer, Delores, who witnesses a mob crime and is placed into hiding by police at a traditional convent. It's here that "Sister Mary Clarence," as she is renamed, gets the church's choir full ...

Whoopi Goldberg and Danielle Deadwyler will star in Chinonye Chukwu‘s upcoming film “Till,” about Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Louis Till. Deadwyler will portray Mamie Till-Mobley, while Goldberg is set to ...