Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Yara and her mother/business partner Keri Shahidi are adapting Cole Brown’s debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World into a series for ABC. The book is a first-hand examination of what it means to navigate the in-between. The book’s synopsis read: Cole has heard it all before—token, bougie, oreo, Blackish—the things we call […]
Pepi Sonuga to recur in Hulu’s limited series Pam & Tommy. She will star opposite Andrew Dice Clay, Lily James, Sebastian Stan, Nick Offerman, and Seth Rogen. The series is based on the true story behind the release of the first-ever viral video in history — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. […]
Common joins Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s coming-of-age dramedy Never Have I Ever for its second season. Inspired by Kaling’s own childhood, the Netflix series follows the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl, Devi. She is an overachieving high school sophomore who has a short fuse that gets her into […]
Lexi Underwood to star in her own standalone episode of Disney+’s supernatural anthology series Just Beyond. McKenna Grace is also cast as a lead in her own series. Grace will be joined by Nasim Pedrad in a guest starring role. READ: Issa Rae, La La Anthony, Angelica Nwandu, Thembi Banks Team Up For Horror Comedy […]
Saniyya Sidney, Regina Taylor, Julian De Niro, and Evan Parke have been cast in Showtime’s anthology series The First Lady. They join previously cast Viola Davis, Lexi Underwood, O-T Fagbenle, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Created by Aaron Cooley, The First Lady will center on the lives of various first ladies of the United States […]
Brandi Denise joins BET’s Games People Play season 2 as a series regular. Cynthia Bailey, Nazanin Mandi, Ro Parrish, Hitman Holla, Leon and Calvin Seabrooks have also been cast in recurring capacities for the series’ new season. She joins returning series regulars Sarunas J. Jackson, Karen Obilom, Parker McKenna Posey, Jackie Long, and Kendall Kyndall. […]
Dominique Fishback is teaming back up with her Project Power co-star Jamie Foxx. Fishback is working with Foxx to adapt her one-woman show Subverted into a new special. Before the 29-year old was making headlines for starring in films such as Judas and the Black Messiah, she wrote and starred in her own one-woman show […]
Billy Porter’s directorial debut film What If? has found its lead. 17-year-old Britsh trans actress Yasmin Finney, a 17-year-old Black has landed the lead role in the Orion Pictures film. READ: 19 Black Film Composers You Should Know Alvaro Garcia Lecuona penned the script for this coming-of-age story. Synopsis: When high school senior Khal posts […]
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua are no longer filming slave drama Emancipation in Georgia after Gov. Brian Kemp signed the state’s controversial new voting law last month. “At this moment in time, the nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice,” […]
Nia Long and Storm Reid to star in Searching sequel for Sony’s Stage 6 Films. The film however isn’t a direct sequel to the original film, but a next installment within the Searching franchise. READ: Nia Long to Voice Life After Death Audio Book– The Sequel to ‘The Coldest Winter Ever’ Aneesh Chaganty made his […]