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Urban drama set around street basketball, focusing on a 17-year-old high school star who is caught between the temptations of a local gangster and a former player, who is pulling him in the other direction.

...snap. Still, it's Shakur who steals the show. The rapper's offscreen legal problems are well known...portrait of seductive evil. He's as dangerous as the asphalt game that ends "Above the Rim" with a sustained roar of thunderous hoop action...

"I didn't create thug life," Tupac Shakur once proclaimed. "I diagnosed it." A charismatic African-American leading man and one of the most potent and admired rap artists of his day, Shakur was born…

Stand-up comic and actor Bernie Mac exploded onto the screen with “The Original Kings of Comedy” (2001) after years of working comedy stages in his native Chicago. His edgy and largely…

This wiry, energetic, black actor is from the busiest family in show business. The youngest of the ten Wayans children, Marlon made his feature debut in brother Damon's action comedy showcase "Mo'…