Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
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 […]
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 […]