by Jordan Simon | Shadow & Act With Memorial Day right around the corner, Shadow And Act wants to give our readers four reasons why there's no cookout like a Black cookout. In honor of the unofficial start of summer, here is our list of five of the best cookout...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB79ZgPPndo Desus and the Kid Mero take a lie detector test. Are they really from the Bronx? Who's better at roasting people? Which of Mero's four kids is his favorite? Find out all that and more in this video.
by Monique Jones | Shadow & Act Viola Davis is here to let you know her thoughts on the inclusion rider and Hollywood's problem with diversity. During Variety's Inclusion Summit, where Davis was the keynote speaker, she talked about how inclusion riders, contract...
by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter | Time Magazine Loving Michelle Obama wasn’t much of a choice. It was something that came naturally, because of how she carried herself. Because she resembled us and was moving in spaces where, as black Americans, we weren’t exactly meant to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRr3jwl1f7M Anthony Mackie takes a lie detector test. Did he attend Juilliard? Was he roommates with Lee Pace in high school and college? Does he think North Carolina has better barbecue than Louisiana? Does he have a favorite child?...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act 2019 has seen some historic firsts for Black women on the film festival front. In February, Nigerian-American filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu became the first Black woman to win the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her U.S....
by Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act The landscape of cinema has been changing slowly but surely. With more women and people of color behind the camera, genres are stretching and shifting. Different types of stories are finally being showcased to the masses. With her...
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood In his feature film debut The Burial of Kojo, Blitz Bazawule tells a story of two brothers through the gaze of a gifted girl who travels between gorgeous lands that exist in life and death. It’s not your ordinary narrative film,...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act Us, Jordan Peele's follow up to Get Out, has been the subject of huge critical and commercial acclaim. The film grossed a staggering $70 million in its opening weekend, making it the second-biggest opening of the year behind Captain...
By Will Thorne | Variety When New York & Company approached Gabrielle Union to be their new brand ambassador and the face of her own clothing line, the actress reacted with “disbelief.” “We are not supposed to be getting those offers, I’m not supposed to be having...
by Malik Adán | Shadow and Act Artist. Producer. Director. Writer. Mother. Sister. Community Builder. When Shadow And Act caught up with Numa Perrier in Austin at South By Southwest, these were just a few of the hats we covered. By all accounts, she’s a busy woman....
Charlize Theron and Michael B. Jordan start talking before the cameras are even rolling. They are exchanging secrets about how they both disappear into character, undergoing dramatic physical — and emotional — transformations. That’s certainly been the case this year...