Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Lifetime has set three new original movies for winter 2022 that star Amber Riley, LeToya Luckett and Tatyana Ali. One of the projects is a thriller Single Black Female starring Riley, Raven Goodwin and K. Michelle, who makes a special appearance. Lifetime has set three new original movies for winter 2022. One of the projects […]
Updated list of 74 to 100 in 2025. It is October, which means we don’t want you settling for the same old horror films but instead get your thrill fix through horror and thriller movies with Black leads or casts. Because while Black horror movies are still often overlooked by movie buffs there are plenty […]
Wesley Snipes, Tiffany Haddish, and Spence Moore II are set to star in the comedy Back on the Strip for Luminosity Entertainment production studio. Back on the Strip which follows Merlin (Moore), young man who moves to Las Vegas to pursue his dream of becoming a magician after losing the woman of his dreams. But […]
Aml Ameen, CCH Pounder, Adrienne Warren, Michael Potts, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Bill Irwin, Gus Halper, Carra Patterson, and Johnny Ramey have boarded the upcoming Netflix biopic Rustin. They join previously announced cast members that include Colman Domingo in the title role, portraying Bayard Rustin, the gay, civil rights activist, as well as Audra McDonald, Chris […]
Hulu’s limited series Iron Mike, is rounding out its cast. The streamer added Laura Harrier, Olunike Adeliyi, TJ Atoms, Harvey Keitel, and Grace Zabriski to the cast. They will recur opposite previously added series star Trevante Rhodes who is portraying former heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson. The unauthorized eight-episode series will explore the wild, tragic and […]
Common is the latest star to join the cast of Wool, the series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian novels for Apple TV+. The rapper/actor joins previously announced cast members Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Rebecca Ferguson, and Tim Robbins. READ: Mustafa Shakir, Charmaine Bingwa, Ben Foster, and Gilbert Owuor Cast in Emancipation Wool, which was given […]
Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, and Kiana Madeira are all cast in the feature drama Brother. Set in Toronto’s early hip hop scene, the film follows Francis and Michael (Pierre and Johnson), sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men during the sweltering summer of 1991. Escalating tensions set off a […]
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are starring in Amazon’s upcoming legal film, The Burial. The film is based on a true story, about a bankrupt funeral homeowner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong and then owner hires a flamboyant attorney to handle the case. Harrison Ford was […]
Netflix is entering the arenas of books with the launch of their own Netflix Book Club, a global club to read the books that inspired the streaming service’s popular adaptations. And they tapped Uzo Aduba to host the club. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked friends, ‘But have you read the book?’ […]
Vanessa Estelle Williams joins the cast of the Fox drama series 9-1-1 for season 5. Williams has a heavily recurring role as Claudette Collins, a take-control 9-1-1 Call Center veteran who transfers back to the main LA station and shows the younger ones, including May Grant (Corinne Massiah) “how it’s done”… Claudette is tough but […]