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Topic: David Oyelowo

Matthew Macfadyen, Sarah Snook in "Succession" (Photograph by David Russell/HBO)

12 foreign actors playing Americans

Nardos Haile
David Oyelowo and Jessica Plummer in "The Girl Before" (Amanda Searle/ HBO Max)

The villainy of minimalism, confirmed

Melanie McFarland
Michael Brown Sr. holds a painting of Jr. donated by an artist on "Ferguson Rises" (Rafael Roy/PBS)

"Ferguson Rises" through a father's eyes

Melanie McFarland
David Oyelowo behind the scenes on "The Water Man" (Karen Ballard/RLJE Films)

Oyelowo won't "shut up, make movies"

D. Watkins
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Ethan Hawke in "In a Valley of Violence" (Focus World)

The best unappreciated films

Gary M. Kramer
Michael Caine, Charlotte Rampling (AP/Casey Curry/Rich Fury)

British films fail on race too

Nico Lang
David Oyelowo (AP/Richard Shotwell)

First black Bond?

Anna Silman
Common performs "Glory" at the Oscars, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP/John Shearer)

Unlock the empathy machine

Sonia Saraiya
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Actor David Oyelowo poses for photographers at a central London cinema (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Sarah Gray
Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper"

The Oscars' white-guy backlash

Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson, and David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

The Twisted Truth of "Selma"

Andrew O'Hehir
(Paramount Pictures)

A riveting civil-rights drama

Andrew O'Hehir
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