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**** The Contradictions of Fair Hope HISTORY, RELIGION AND WORLDY PLEASURES CLASH IN THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FAIR HOPE Directorial Debut by S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf is Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg ****  The Contradictions of Fair Hope The Contradictions of Fair Hope, the directorial debut of S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf, is a powerful portrait of one of the nation’s last surviving benevolent societies—a self-help group formed after Emancipation to help freed slaves take care of the sick, feed the hungry and bury the dead. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film follows the Fair Hope Benevolent Society in Alabama during its annual anniversary celebration, which has over the years been co-opted by a notorious outdoor festival called the “Foot Wash.” As the faithful and the faithless collide, Contradictions provides an eye-opening examination of Black history and current culture. The film shows how a people stripped of knowledg...

**** TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP MOVIES **** S. Epatha Merkerson Academy, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild award nominee Michael Clarke Duncan and Golden Globes, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award winner S. Epatha Merkerson have signed on to join multi award winning director/writer/actor Kent Moran’s upcoming boxing drama, THE CHALLENGER. When he and his adopted mother are evicted from their home, struggling Bronx auto mechanic Jaden Miller (Kent Moran) is forced back into the one thing he's run from his entire life: fighting. With the help of a legendary trainer (Michael Clarke Duncan), Miller will do everything in his power to save his family from living on the streets. Kent Moran (LISTEN TO YOUR HEART) wrote and will star in the drama. S. Epatha Merkerson recently signed on to play Moran’s adopted mother. Justin Hartley (“Smallville”), Ernie Sabella (THE LION KING) and Lindsay Hartley (“All My Children,” “Days of Our Lives”) will round out the cast. Michael Clark Duncan Michael Cla...

S. Epatha Merkerson Law And Order actress S. Epatha Merkerson is the subject of a $220,000 lawsuit for allegedly failing to hand over a cut of her earnings on the hit television drama. Bosses at The Gersh Agency insist the crime drama’s 15-year veteran broke an agreement to pay them 10 per cent of the $2,229,084 she has pulled in from the widely syndicated show. They have filed a $229,908.40 suit in a Los Angeles California Supreme Court, according to TMZ. Photo By: RD/Leon/Retna