Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Zazie Beetz has joined the cast of Discretion, the new Paramount+ legal drama, in a recurring role, adding to a growing ensemble as production continues. She joins previously announced leads Nicole Kidman, Stephan James, Elle Fanning, Josh Lucas, and Colton Ryan. The eight-episode legal thriller, adapted from bestselling author Chandler Baker’s short story of the […]
Viola Davis will receive the Gregory Peck Award for Cinematic Excellence at this year’s San Diego International Film Festival, adding another major honor to a career spanning film, television, and theater. Davis will be celebrated during the festival’s Night of the Stars Tribute on October 13 at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La […]
Zainab Johnson is bringing her second comedy hour to Netflix, and this one comes with a notable first: it’s the debut stand-up special from the Obamas’ Higher Ground. Toxically Optimistic premieres October 27. The special is built on a show Johnson first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, where it earned a Best Comedy Show nomination […]
Andra Day is set to lead the ensemble cast of Don’t Go Gentle, a contemporary social drama now in production in Toronto, marking writer-director Deborah Riley Draper’s move into narrative features. Day stars as Tanya Jenkins, an honorably discharged Army medic who refuses to let a wrongful conviction become the final word on her life, […]
New first-look images have been released from Give Me Some Sugah, the faith-driven drama directed by Tasha Smith, ahead of its December 16 premiere on Netflix. Inspired by the viral real-life story of Lenore Lindsey, a South Shore Chicago bakery owner, the film follows a woman stunned by a discovery that inspires her to reclaim […]
CultureCon just added some serious star power to its 2026 lineup. Michael B. Jordan is set to take the stage at this year’s event, running October 3 and 4 at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, joining fellow additions Aaron Pierre, Wale, and Tobe Nwigwe. Jordan’s appearance comes off the heels of a […]
Before the Oscar, before the platinum records, before he was headlining blockbusters, Jamie Foxx was just a man with a mic making people laugh. This October, he’s going back to where it all began. The trailer just dropped for “Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself,” Foxx’s new stand-up special hitting Hulu October 7, and it […]
Elijah Bynum, who made his directorial debut with Magazine Dreams, has begun shooting his next film, My Darling California, with a stacked cast that includes Oscar nominee Don Cheadle, Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, Chris Evans, Chris Pine, and Oscar winner Mikey Madison. Set in 1980 Los Angeles and described as “an American noir of ambition, […]
When Slater Vance decided to bring Yale’s first Black student theater group back to life this August, there was a familiar name among its original founders: his mother. The first-year student, son of Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, has revived the Heritage Theater Ensemble, the group Bassett founded in 1979 during her own time […]
Noma Dumezweni has joined the cast of Apple TV+’s Disavowed as a series regular. Details on who she’ll play remain under wraps. From Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Disavowed follows legendary CIA case officer Brad Griffin (James Marsden), who is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin responsible for […]