NIA LONG: I love Vivica. She was like a sister and she will forever be my soul food sister ... I was at the movies at The Grove. I saw Mekhi with his family. We laugh every time we see each ...

I don’t feel like the movie Soul Food, the 1997 family dramedy starring Vivica Fox, Vanessa Williams, Nia Long, Mekhi Phifer and Michael Beach (among others), truly gets its due. You rarely hear ...

1997’s Soul Food, a staple in Black cinema ... on the trials of an extended African-American family, held together by long standing traditions, and how Sunday dinner resonated with families ...

Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A ... to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.

Every path has a price.

For this month’s installment, Nia Long breaks down ... “Every time I think of Soul Food, I think of these dinner scenes that we had. We all had to sit at this long table and the camera had ...