Lena Waithe's "Queen & Slim" stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a couple on the run. But she says they're no black Bonnie and Clyde.

Lena Waithe On 'Queen And Slim,' A Black Lives Matter Odyssey The screenwriter's new movie is about a black couple who shoot a white police officer in self-defense during a routine traffic stop.

Director Melina Matsoukas and screenwriter Lena Waithe team up for "Queen & Slim" a love story and a meditation on racism and police brutality. Just don't call it the black "Bonnie and Clyde." ...

But for writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas, who are also producers on the project, the process of packaging “Queen & Slim” was more seamless than usual.

The beauty of Black cinema was represented Saturday at the gorgeously curated Queen & Slim First Look at Gallier Hall during Essence Festival in New Orleans. Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and ...

Queen & Slim By Paula Rogo · Updated October 23, 2020 Lena Waithe’s newest project, dubbed “the Black Bonnie & Clyde” in film circles, is finally getting a release date — and we have the ...

Black Hollywood were out for the Queen & Slim screenings that filmmakers Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas held around the country this week.. The duo’s first feature film made its first stop a ...

Later that month, Waithe and Mayo announced their separation just two months after the Queen and Slim writer revealed she had ...

Having created a long-running, hit series like The Chi, earned an Emmy for her work writing on Master of None, and written/produced buzzy blockbusters like Queen & Slim, among many other projects ...

At 40, Lena Waithe already has an impressive legacy, ... She wrote the film Queen & Slim and was a producer on the movie Dear White People. But for me, Waithe's real triumph is The Chi.