With a Super Bowl commercial that used as its soundtrack a sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years earlier to the day, they got the notice they wanted. Much of the reaction, though, amounted to a richly deserved thumbs-down.
“Black Nativity,” which opened nationwide last week, is executive produced by University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ Joy Goodwin, who teaches screenwriting and producing. The film stars Jennifer
Ayana Mathis discussed her novel “The 12 Tribes of Hattie” on Sept. 17 at Salem College. The book, the Philadelphia native’s debut novel, jolted to the top of bestsellers’ lists
