An activist background permeates “Black,” a short (20-minute) conversation between a black woman and a white woman momentarily linked by the death of a 12-year-old child.

Republicans pounced on a tweet by the Connecticut Democratic Party that drew a comparison of a Black Republican candidate to the cartoon monkey Curious George. The party attacked George Logan, a ...

Curious George. “Forrest Gump” is about an Alabama man’s adventures in the United States over a 30-year time period. It was the top-grossing movie in the US in 1994.