Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Yaya DaCosta is departing her longtime role in Chicago med ahead of its seventh season to lead the upcoming Fox drama series Our Kind Of People. She is the first cast member announced to join the Lee Daniels and Karen Gist project they have with 20th Television and Fox Entertainment. Tasha Smith is also attached […]
Erika Alexander and Derek Luke are teaming back up with Blumhouse for its second television with Epix, entitled American Refugee. Sam Trammell, Peyton Jackson, Zamani Wilder, Jessi Case, and Vince Mattis are also cast. American Refugee tells the story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker (Trammell), while the American economy is in […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp star Hannah John-Kamen is taking up another comic book story. Kamen is cast as the title role in the adaptation of the sword-wielding comic book fantasy hero Red Sonja for Millennium Films. Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith created Sonya in the early 1970s by for Marvel’s “Conan the Barbarian” comics. She […]
Gabourey Sidibe is making her feature directorial debut with the psychological thriller Pale Horse for Gamechanger Films. Pale Horse is based on a story by Chris Courtney Martin and Asabi Lee and Paul Hart-Wilden is penning the script. Set in the Pacific Northwest, the thriller follows Naia, a celebrated yet reclusive author living with multiple […]
Manboy may be gone from Snowfall but Melvin Gregg is entering the sci-fi-world of Share. Melvin Gregg is executive producing and starring in the sci-fi pic Share alongside Bradley Whitford, Alice Braga, and Danielle Campbell. Ira Rosensweig will make her directorial debut with this film. She’s is directing based on Benjamin Sutor’s script. Share follows […]
Issa Rae’s HBO Max comedy, tentatively titled Rap Shit, has added three to its cast. Crooked Media Podcast Keep It’s writer Aida Osman, rapper KaMillion, and comedian Jonica Booth have been cast as the leads of Rap Sh*t (WT). The HBO Max’s half-hour comedy series from Insecure co-creator Rae and her Hoorae Productions. Rae will […]
Harold Perrineau is set to lead Epix’s contemporary sci-fi horror series From. John Griffin created the series which unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town. It is located in the middle of America and it traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a […]
The topic of Black mental health is still taboo in the Black community. It’s something many live years undiagnosed with. Or they keep it hidden as if it is something to be ashamed of. We are so conditioned for hardship that we often don’t realize that we may be suffering from some kind of mental […]
50 Cent’s TV career continues to flourish with a new series Confessions of a Crime Queen heading to Discovery+. The network gave a straight-to-series order to Confessions of a Crime Queen, a true-crime anthology series. 50 is developing the project through his G-Unit Film & Television banner, Rich Bye and his Goodbye Pictures and Lionsgate […]
Pheobe Robinson’s Freefrom pilot comedy Everything’s Trash has rounded out its cast of series regulars. Jordan Carlos, Toccarra Cash, Nneka Okafor, and Moses Storm join Robinson in the half-hour comedy. It is inspired by Robinson’s book Everything’s Trash But It’s Ok. Chioke Nassor is directing the pilot and Robinson is penning the script. The series […]