Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Lala Anthony is set to recur on the second season of Hulu’s original drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Created and written by Wu-Tang Clan frontman The RZA and Alex Tse, the series is based on the Wu-Tang Clan, one of the most influential groups in hip-hop history. Set in early ’90s New York at the […]
Quinta B is set to recur in the third season of TBS’s anthology series Miracle Workers opposite Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni. The anthology series is a Heaven-set workplace comedy based on Simon Rich’s book What in God’s Name. In the first season Radcliffe plays Craig, a low-level angel responsible for […]
Black Lighting may have just ended but Nafessa Williams already has her next role lined up and it’s going to be dope! Nafessa Williams joins previously cast Y’lan Noel and Christina Jackson in FX’s The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Lucas Till, Nathan Darrow, and Tom Irwin have also been cast. The pilot is […]
Sherri Shepherd, Ashleigh Murray, Mike Manning, and Jonny Beauchamp are set to star in the indie drama The Way Out. The founder of Barry’s gym franchise, Barry Jay is writing, directing, and producing the film under his newly launched production company Fight Or Flight Films. READ: Lil Rel Howery, Ego Nwodim to Star in Indie Comedy […]
Gabrielle Dennis lands the lead role in NBC romantic comedy pilot, Someone Out There. The potential series is based on a Spanish series Pequeñas Coincidencias created by Javier Veiga. READ: Keith Powers to Co-Star Opposite Gabrielle Union in The Perfect Find The single-camera romantic comedy is about two set-in-their-ways adults, Derek (yet to be cast) and Chloe […]
Khris Davis and Sullivan Jones have been cast in the George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. George Tillman Jr. is set to direct the biopic and co-wrote it with Frank Baldwin. It is based on the original screenplay by Dan Gordon. The film will follow the remarkable life and times of George Foreman […]
The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us is bringing back Merle Dandridge to reprise her video game role for the TV series. Also starring in the series are Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and Gabriel Luna. The story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to […]
Malcolm Barrett and Cedric Joe are among 17 to join the cast of the Disney+ anthology series Just Beyond. They join previously announced series leads Lexi Underwood and McKenna Grace. Christine Ko, Sally Pressman, Riki Lindhome, Tim Heidecker, Gabriel Bateman, Cyrus Arnold, Arjun Athalye, and Jack Gore have been also cast. Seth Grahame-Smith’s supernatural anthology series […]
Jason Robert Moore, Aubin Wise, Phillip Mullings Jr., Dominic Goodman, Gracie Dzienny, Elizabeth Mitchell, Will Swenson, and Dylan McNamara round out the cast of Netflix’s vampire series First Kill. They are all set to star alongside series leads Imani Lewis and Sarah Catherine Cooke. READ: 17 Actors Who’ve Written Children’s Books The series is written by […]
One hundred years ago, in 1921 thirty-five blocks of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a thriving town of black entrepreneurs, businesses, and wealth. The segregated town was famously coined Black Wall Street. However, on May 30, 1921 when “[a] chance encounter between two teenagers lit the fuse that set Greenwood District alight,” that […]