Lifetime Celebrates Black History Month
Posted By richards on February 8, 2013
Its that time of the year again when African American heritage, is front and center.
Black History Month is my favorite time of the year and now Lifetime is apparently making it one of their favorite times of the year, too. Lifetime Network will be presenting three world premiere movies featuring some of Hollywoods top performers.
Betty & Coretta, starring Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige premiered on February 2. Betty & Coretta is the true, life story of two women who forged a life-long friendship following the tragic deaths of their husbands in the battle for civil rights. Bassett stars as Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Blige as Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X.
Faced with a broken and angry America, the two held each other up. Raising children on their own, the two fought to keep the honor and the legacy of their husbands alive.
On Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 p.m. Toni Braxton stars in Twist of Faith, an interfaith love story about a single Christian mother (Braxton) and an Orthodox Jewish widower (David Julian Hirsh), whose mutual passion for music and singing draws them together.
Jacob Fisher (Hirsh), a cantor and amateur songwriter living in Brooklyn, N.Y., witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. In a state of shock, he walks out on his life. After wandering aimlessly, he finds himself in small town USA, namely Brent, Alabama where he is embraced by Nina (Braxton) a single mother, who happens to be a Gospel singer.
Gospel music, and Ninas special attention to the brokenness of Fishers challenges are the keys to reviving his spirit while at the same time making a difference in her life.
Rounding out Lifetimes world premiere movie lineup for Black History Month is Pastor Brown February 16, at 8:00 p.m. Salli Richardson-Whitfield stars as a young woman with a past who returns home to take over as pastor of the family church after her fathers (Keith David) death. She is forced to face her sordid past and mend fences with her son (Michael B. Jordan) and sister (Nicole Ari Parker).
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Lifetime Celebrates Black History Month
