Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Tiffany Boone is set to star opposite André Holland in the Huey P. Newton limited series The Big Cigar for Apple TV. The series, which is about how the Black Panther leader eluded a nationwide manhunt and escaped to Cuba, is based on Joshuah Bearman’s Playboy article of the same name. Bearman is also attached […]
ALLBlk released the trailer to Deitrick Haddon’s The Fallen, a faith-based dramatic feature film. The project, which is written, directed, and starring Haddon, serves as a follow-up to 2010 film, Blessed and Cursed. Singer Q Parker, Jonathan Slocumb, gospel artist B Slade, Jo él Quinn, and Brittany Lucio also star in the film. According to […]
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins are set to star as brothers in the revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. Acclaimed by the New York Times as “The Greatest American Play of the Past 25 Years,” the darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, will return to Broadway this fall for […]
Wendell Pierce, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and Karen LeBlanc are set to star in an episode of Fox’s upcoming crime anthology drama series Accused. Based on the BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology, Accused opens in a courtroom on the accused, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial. READ: Tasha Smith Joins […]
Mehcad Brooks is joining season 22 of Law & Order as a new detective in the mix. The series comes from exec producers Wolf, Rick Eid, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski. Additional details about Brooks’ role are being kept under wraps. READ: 12 Favorite Martin Lawrence Characters of All Time Brooks joins a cast that […]
Disney’s Onyx Collective and OWN announced the guest for the upcoming series The Hair Tales from executive producers Tracee Ellis Ross and Michaela Angela Davis. The docuseries will feature interviews from Issa Rae, Chlöe Bailey, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Marsai Martin and Chika. Oprah Winfrey, who also serves as executive producer, will also be featured. READ: […]
Megan Thee Stallion is going to da Pynk. The Grammy-winning rapper will appear on P-Valley season 2, she will portray her rap alter-ego Tina Snow. Fans were given a glimpse of her character on Sunday’s episode. In the episode DJ Neva Scared (Brandon Gilpin) turns down Lil Murda’s (J. Alphonse Nicholson) offer to join the […]
Viola Davis and husband Julis Tennon, Chris Tucker, and Marlon Wayans have joined the cast of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s untitled Nike film. Affleck is writing the project alongside Damon and both are producing. Chris Messina, Matthew Maher, and Tom Papa have also been cast. Affleck is directing the film which tells the story […]
Even after death, Lena Horne is still making history as the first Black woman with a Broadway theater named after her. The Nederlander Organization will rename its Broadway theater, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after the late, great performer and civil rights activist Lena Horne. The new name will be Lena Horne Theatre and it will […]
Check out the trailer to Netflix’s adult-animated music series Entergalactic, based on Kid Cudi’s upcoming album of the same name. The series hails from Kenya Barris and Scott Mescudi (aka Kid Cudi). Mescudi will write, star, and executive produce the series. Ian Edelman will co-write with Mescudi and will also executive produce along with Barris. […]