Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Raphael Thomas didn’t choose the safe road, he just kept choosing the right one. A full-ride graphic design student at St. John University who quietly built a career dancing alongside Kelly Rowland, Sevyn Streeter, and more before most people knew his name. He didn’t make the Chris Brown tour that first time. He made something […]
Prior to Blaxploitation dominating the cultural conversation in the early to mid 1970s, there exists a rich and wide-ranging body of work spanning silent films, all-Black musicals, independent dramas, and mainstream Hollywood pictures that fought for dignity, complexity, and truth on screen. As a fan of older Black cinema, I am constantly discovering films worth […]
We sat down with John Cena and Eric André for Netflix’s new comedy Little Brother, directed by Matt Spicer. The film follows Marcus, a successful real estate agent played by Eric André whose perfectly controlled world gets completely flipped when his eccentric and unpredictable little brother Rudd, played by John Cena, shows back up in […]
I was raised by a phenomenal father. Stern, funny , endlessly resourceful, and fiercely protective. He embodied everything it means to be a man, at least in my eyes, and in the eyes of everyone he raised. He taught us to defend ourselves, to be disciplined, to fix what’s broken. He believed in teaching someone […]
He’s only 13, but Anthony B. Jenkins is already building the kind of resume most actors spend a lifetime chasing — horror with Halle Berry in Never Let Go, a recurring role in Stranger Things, and now stepping into two major legacy moments at once: joining the final season of The Chi as Emmett’s son […]
From prestige dramas to beloved comedies to long-running talk shows, 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most significant years for TV endings in recent memory. Whether canceled outright or wrapping on their own terms, more than 50 shows across broadcast, cable and streaming have been canceled or endings announced this year. Here […]
What if the future was never meant to be built on fear? For decades, science fiction has imagined tomorrow as collapse, control, and surveillance — and almost always through the eyes of the same creators. But what if the future looks completely different when someone else holds the camera? Delphine Diaw Diallo is a French-Senegalese […]
Here’s what’s hitting theaters this summer — a solid mix of blockbusters, horror, and some genuinely interesting smaller films worth keeping an eye on. July is shaping up to be the biggest month, with Nolan’s The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day landing just two weeks apart. On the indie side, Backrooms, Is God Is, […]
One of the most damaging things to ever happen narratively in America is the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s silent film Birth of a Nation. Not simply because it was a racist film. But because of the infrastructure behind it, who endorsed it, and how thoroughly it shaped the way Black people have been seen […]
On thirty years of acquisition, rejection, and building something the industry couldn’t ignore. In May 2026, Byron Allen did two things in the same month that made a lot of people ask the same question at the same time: who is this guy? He took over Stephen Colbert’s late night slot on CBS. And he […]