Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
From chart-topping hits to Hollywood blockbusters, many rappers turned actors have proven themselves as multi-talented entertainers. Over the years years, the trend of “rappers turned actors” has only grown stronger. With a natural flair for performance, these artists have successfully transitioned from the music industry to the big screen. READ: 13 Comedians Who Played The Hell […]
Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions picked up the U.S. rights to Alice. The film stars Keke Palmer, Common, Sinqua Walls, and Jonny Lee Miller. READ: Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun are Cast in Jordan Peele’s Next Terror Nope Written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden, the film stars Keke Palmer as Alice, an enslaved person […]
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 […]
Common is teaming up with Steel Springs Pictures to produce the based on a true story film, Rising Above. The sports film tells the true story of Howard University’s 1971 soccer team and its coach Lincoln “Tiger” Phillips. Taylor Materne penned the script which follows the 1971 HU’s soccer team, that was unfairly stripped of […]
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 […]
Common is Joining Keke Palmer in Alice Thriller. Jonny Lee is also the latest actor added to the cast. A couple of different real events that happened in Georgia in the 1960s inspired Alice. However, the specifics of the individuals have changed. The film tells of a slave in the antebellum South. She escapes […]