Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
The cast of the Color Purple musical just added six more and got even more star-studded. Louis Gossett, Jr., David Alan Grier, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole , Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, and Stephen Hill have been cast in the udpated musical film. They join previously cast Danielle Brooks and Fantasia Barrino who have joined to […]
Ruben Santiago Hudson, Richard Kind, Lavel Schley and Olivia Luccardi have joined the CBS drama pilot East New York. They will star as series regulars opposite Amanda Warren who will lead CBS’ police drama. Co-written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, East New York centers on Regina Haywood (Warren), is the newly promoted deputy inspector […]
FX closed a deal to develop a limited series adaptation of Blitz Bazawule’s upcoming debut novel The Scent of Burnt Flowers with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II attached to star in it. The Scent of Burnt Flowers centers on Melvin and Bernadette, a Black couple fleeing persecution in 1960s America. They seek asylum in Ghana, where they […]
Leslie Jones is the latest to join the second season of BMF. She joins previously cast Kelly Hu and Christine Horn. As well as Lala, whose recurring role was upped to a series regular. Black Mafia Family/BMF is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit […]
Amanda Warren has been tapped as the lead in CBS’ police drama pilot East New York. Co-written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, East New York centers on Regina Haywood (Warren), is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse […]
Taraji P Henson is set to star in the adaptation of Alessandro Camon’s award-winning play Time Alone. Camon’s play tells two different stories of prison and solitude as it tells the story of Anna (Henson), the traumatized shut-in mother, whose police officer son was murdered in the line of duty, and Gabriel, a young man […]
Jonathan Majors has found his next project in the adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel The Man In My Basement. Nadia Latif will make her directorial debut on the film. Majors will star in as well as executive produce under his Tall Street Productions banner. The novel follows Charles Blakey, an African American man living in […]
Three more new faces are joining the Pynk family. John Clarence Stewart, Shamika Cotton, and Miracle Watts are set to recur on the second season Starz’s P-Valley. Season 2 of P-Valley will take place five months after the Season 1 finale. It will center on The Pynk’s struggle to thrive amid the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Frankie Faison joins the cast of The Rookie spin-off, led by Niecy Nash. Kat Foster and Felix Solis have also been cast in the proposed series. The spinoff, follows the premise of The Rookie, which centers on the oldest rookie in the LAPD. However, the new version will center on the FBI’s program. READ: Human […]
Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kyle Vincent Terry and Caroline Chikezie are set to recur on season three of Power Book II: Ghost. Season three picks up after the explosive finale of season two in which Monet was informed her nephew/son Zeke was dead. Also, Zeke’s father Daniel Sunjata’s Mecca/Danté Spears was also found dead by his handler, […]