Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
He’s only 13, but Anthony B. Jenkins is already building the kind of resume most actors spend a lifetime chasing — horror with Halle Berry in Never Let Go, a recurring role in Stranger Things, and now stepping into two major legacy moments at once: joining the final season of The Chi as Emmett’s son […]
What if the future was never meant to be built on fear? For decades, science fiction has imagined tomorrow as collapse, control, and surveillance — and almost always through the eyes of the same creators. But what if the future looks completely different when someone else holds the camera? Delphine Diaw Diallo is a French-Senegalese […]
After seven seasons portraying Jada on Paramount+’s “The Chi,” Yolonda Ross is stepping behind the camera for her television directorial debut. Ross, whose character died of breast cancer in the show’s seventh season, returns to the hit drama’s eighth and final season to direct its third episode, streaming June 5, 2026 on Paramount+ and airing […]
One of the most damaging things to ever happen narratively in America is the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s silent film Birth of a Nation. Not simply because it was a racist film. But because of the infrastructure behind it, who endorsed it, and how thoroughly it shaped the way Black people have been seen […]
On thirty years of acquisition, rejection, and building something the industry couldn’t ignore. In May 2026, Byron Allen did two things in the same month that made a lot of people ask the same question at the same time: who is this guy? He took over Stephen Colbert’s late night slot on CBS. And he […]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Directed by Aleshea Harris, Is God Is is bold, comedic, neo-noir, gory, violent, and one of the best revenge films I’ve seen in a very long time. This is the kind of movie that sits with you long after the credits roll because it is not trying to simply entertain you. […]
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is, by most measures, a genuinely good television show. It is warm, funny, sharply written and anchored by a cast that brings remarkable depth to material that could easily have tipped into either melodrama or cheap comedy. Elle Fanning is disarming in the lead role, and the ensemble around her, Michelle […]
With Is God Is, Vivica A. Fox steps into a rare and transformative role as Ruby, a mother whose past and final request become the emotional ignition point for a brutal, mythic revenge journey. The film, written and directed by Aleshea Harris and produced by Tessa Thompson, adapts Harris’ acclaimed stage play into a Southern […]
There’s a particular kind of mother I grew up knowing. Not just my own, but the constellation of women around her. Honorable aunties. Family friends who became family. Women who didn’t just know your name, but knew you. They could tell when something was wrong before you had the language for it. And if needed, […]
I’ll be honest with you: I almost didn’t cover the 2026 Met Gala. Not because the fashion wasn’t giving, because it absolutely was. Everybody at the Met Gala looked incredible. But I sat there watching the red carpet and felt something I couldn’t shake. A kind of split screen in my brain that I couldn’t […]