Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
There are people who go viral and there are people who go viral with a purpose. Lynae Vanee has always been the latter. The Atlanta-born poet, educator and cultural voice — a Spelman College graduate with a master’s in African American Studies from Boston University — built her platform through the viral Instagram series Parking […]
Nobody saw this coming. Not even them. Since landing on Netflix on June 12, The Polygamist has quietly become one of the streamer’s most explosive global hits, reaching No. 2 worldwide and No. 1 in 16 countries, with top 10 placement in 63 countries including the United States. Based on Zimbabwean author Sue Nyathi’s novel, […]
As an EP and director, DeMane Davis has spent her career building shows and stories that mean something, and Brilliant Minds was exactly that. A network show that tackled mental health with care, nuance, and a cast that gave everything. When the cancellation came, she still showed up for the finale, for the fans, and […]
Raphael Thomas didn’t choose the safe road, he just kept choosing the right one. A full-ride graphic design student at St. John University who quietly built a career dancing alongside Kelly Rowland, Sevyn Streeter, and more before most people knew his name. He didn’t make the Chris Brown tour that first time. He made something […]
We sat down with Ego Nwodim, Christopher Meloni and Sherry Cola for Netflix’s new comedy Little Brother, directed by Matt Spicer. The film follows Marcus, a successful real estate agent played by Eric André whose perfectly controlled world gets completely flipped when his eccentric and unpredictable little brother Rudd, played by John Cena, shows back […]
We sat down with John Cena and Eric André for Netflix’s new comedy Little Brother, directed by Matt Spicer. The film follows Marcus, a successful real estate agent played by Eric André whose perfectly controlled world gets completely flipped when his eccentric and unpredictable little brother Rudd, played by John Cena, shows back up in […]
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 […]