
January 31, 1947 · 79 years old
Glynn Russell Turman, born on January 31, 1947, in New York City, is a revered American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, whose career spans decades. He gained early recognition for his role as Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 film "Cooley High." Turman's talent shone on Broad…

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Bumblebee teams up with a teenage girl to protect the world while the Decepticons hunt him with the help of a secret agency.

Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through diving training, the racist Master Chief sets out to make Carl's journey as difficult as po...

Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.

Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.

A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.

A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return no longer human. Can two college drop-outs save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?

A single mother navigates a series of unfortunate events, leading her down an unforeseen path where she becomes embroiled in a situation she never envisioned, finding herself at the center of suspicion in an indifferent world.

A charming management consultant and his crack team use every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals.

A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady.

Father-to-be Alan is shocked to learn that he was born a sextuplet. He and his newfound brother Russell set out on a hilarious journey to reunite with their other long-lost siblings.

In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.

A group of teens are bent on improving the run-down conditions of their high-school.

Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.

An anthology series that chronicles the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it.

Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.