Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Method Man, Morris Chestnut, Phylicia Rashad, and more join Diarra Kilpatrick’s critically acclaimed Paramount+ series for its sophomore run Diarra Brickland is back, and Detroit is not letting her rest. Paramount+ has unveiled the premiere date, full cast, and first look at season two of Diarra From Detroit, the critically acclaimed series created by, written […]
Sony Pictures has dropped the first trailer for The Social Reckoning, and if the original left you questioning the cost of ambition, this one asks what happens when the bill finally comes due. A companion piece to the 2010 Oscar-winning drama The Social Network, the film centers on Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer played […]
Adam Blackstone, Phylicia Fant, and Robert “Don Pooh” Cummins among this year’s honorees at the July 12 ceremony in Wilmington, Delaware The HBCU Week Foundation has announced the honorees and co-hosts for its 7th Annual Awards Gala, taking place July 12 at the historic Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. HBCU Week Foundation founder Ashley Christopher […]
The celebrated British cellist traces his greatest inspirations, from Bob Marley to Mendelssohn, in ‘My Favourite Melodies,’ streaming June 21 At 27, Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE has already spent a decade rewriting the record books in classical music. Now he is inviting audiences into his world in a new documentary streaming exclusively on Marquee TV from […]
The seriocomic psychological play opens June 13 at The Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles Dot Saint-Fleur’s one-woman show One Way has rounded out its production team just days before its Saturday premiere. Eboni Price has come aboard as director, Shayla Hudson-Riggle as assistant director, and Ignacio Navarro as stage manager for the […]
New Edition’s Ricky Bell also executive produces the project, which stars Amy Correa Bell and Alexander Piñeiro Meagan Good is stepping further behind the camera. According to Deadline, she is set to direct and executive produce 15 Minutes of Fame, a new comedy-drama series, alongside Ricky Bell, member of New Edition and lead vocalist of […]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s tightly guarded Netflix AI thriller continues to grow. Alfre Woodard and Chloe Coleman are the latest to join the project, rounding out an ensemble that has been quietly becoming one of the more impressive casts assembled for a streaming film in recent memory. They join a lineup that already includes Rachel McAdams, Jeff […]
The Harlem-born multi-hyphenate joins culture’s biggest night, airing live June 28 from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles Teyana Taylor is getting her flowers on the biggest stage BET has to offer. The network announced today that Taylor will receive the Icon of the Year Award, sponsored by Hyundai, at the BET Awards 2026. The […]
Neon will release the documentary — conceived by the late William Greaves and completed by his son David — in theaters October 16 More than 50 years after the footage was shot, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is finally coming to theaters. Neon has set an October 16 release date for the long-awaited documentary, […]
With his win for ‘Ragtime,’ Richardson joins a short but powerful list of Black talent to win the prestigious award in that category In 2014, Lamar Richardson sent an email declining a summer internship at Barclays. Nearly twelve years later, he was standing on the Tony Awards stage accepting the award for Best Revival of […]