Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Shaquille O’Neal and TNT Sports have announced the premiere date and full roster for Dunkman, the first professional league built entirely around dunking. Live competition begins Tuesday, July 21 at 8 p.m. ET, with the world championships set for Tuesday, August 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The winner will take home a grand prize of […]
Warner Bros. is developing a reimagining of the beloved 1993 family adventure Free Willy, with Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO producing. Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett have been tapped to write the screenplay. The original Free Willy, about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive orca, became a global phenomenon upon its release, grossing […]
Nia Long got candid during a recent appearance on Angie Martinez’s podcast In Real Life, reflecting on early guidance from castmate Laurence Fishburne on the set of Boyz n the Hood and the lasting on-screen creative partnership she’s built with Larenz Tate since Love Jones, a bond set to continue in the upcoming Don’t Ever […]
Antoine Fuqua’s Michael has officially crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office after 12 weekends in release, according to industry tracking data from The Numbers and Box Office Mojo. The milestone makes it only the second film of 2026 to reach that threshold, after Universal/Illumination/Nintendo’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and marks the first […]
Baltimore Center Stage has announced the full cast for the world premiere of Bocking, running August 14 through September 6, 2026, with opening night on August 22. Written by playwright, actor and musician Preston Crowder and directed by Tony Award-nominated, Obie Award-winning BCS Artistic Director Stevie Walker-Webb, Bocking begins when two children innocently repeat something […]
Director Clement Virgo and co-writer Tamara Faith Berger have crafted a psychosexual thriller rooted in history and obsession. Steal Away, adapted from Karolyn Smardz Frost’s non-fiction book Steal Away Home, opens in US and Canadian cinemas July 17 via Elevation Pictures. The film follows Cécile, a young refugee who arrives with her mother at the […]
Taye Diggs, alongside partners Autumn Federici, Shelby Stone, James Black and Troy Brookins, has officially launched Microhouse Films, a first-of-its-kind vertical storytelling platform putting distribution directly in the hands of filmmakers. The app is available now on the App Store and Google Play. Microhouse Films enables creators to produce, distribute and monetize their work within […]
The witches are rising. FX has set Thursday, September 24 as the premiere date for the 13th season of American Horror Story, airing at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on FX and Hulu and streaming globally on Disney+. Among the returning faces are Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe, two fan favorites whose return has sent […]
Boston Blue, CBS’s hit spinoff of the long-running Blue Bloods, is coming back for its sophomore season. The show returns Friday, October 9, picking up from a finale that left fans with plenty of unanswered questions. Season 1 ended with Detective Lena Silver’s boyfriend Brian Rodgers landing in the Charles River after a truck intentionally […]
There are people who go viral and there are people who go viral with a purpose. Lynae Vanee has always been the latter. The Atlanta-born poet, educator and cultural voice — a Spelman College graduate with a master’s in African American Studies from Boston University — built her platform through the viral Instagram series Parking […]