By Aramide Tinubu | Essence Just a few short years ago, the entertainment industry was stifling creatives of color. Now, Black women in powerful positions—from directors’ chairs to C-suites—are presenting fresh narratives and taking their rightful place in the field....
By BGN Staff | Black Girl Nerds In this week’s episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we present a 2-part episode featuring actor Dennis Haysbert and author Nic Stone. Segment 1: Dennis Haysbert captured the attention of audiences and critics alike with his...
Clayton Davis | Variety The celebration of Black cinema should be year-round and the focus on embracing Black creatives in the awards community is ongoing. While the Oscars often receive the brunt of criticism for their lack of diversity among its nominees, they are...
Nicole Avant | Variety My mother raised me to believe that the soul is everlasting. She simply did not believe that you could kill someone’s spirit. The physical body may go away, but the spirit — the Divine essence within us that makes us who we are — is something...
Tilane Jones | Variety For me, Black History Month is best illustrated by my 92-year-old grandmother Ella Queen Johnson’s recall of our family stories. She shares these stories knowing that the wider world lacks a true and full recognition of the African American...
By Meredith Woerner | Variety John Boyega and Letitia Wright have known each other since meeting 13 years ago at the Identity School of Acting in London; later, they both appeared in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” miniseries. Boyega’s 2022 included turns in Abi Damaris...
Regina Hall | Variety As we enter Black History Month, I reflect on the varied meanings it has held for me throughout the many stages of my life. When I was young, it felt like an obligatory time of homework and essays about Black historical figures. As I matured, it...
by Addie Morfoot | Variety W. Kamau Bell expected Bill Cosby to respond to the four-part Showtime docuseries that Bell has produced about the pioneering but now disgraced entertainer. But Bell was surprised by how Cosby chose to comment following the Jan. 22...
By Clayton Davis | Variety Is it time for Will Smith to join the list, or can Denzel Washington pick up a second lead actor statuette? We lost Sidney Poitier, and his impact is immeasurable. He was a titan in the industry who broke barriers and Oscar records. He...
TheWrap magazine: The musician was doing just fine in his day job when he got a chance to detour into directing — and the success of ”Summer of Soul“ still shocks him By Steve Pond | The Wrap This story about Questlove and “Summer of Soul” first appeared in the...
by K.J. Yossman | Variety Given it’s been a tough 12 months for cinema, it would be an achievement to appear in just one of the top 10 highest grossing films of the year. Naomie Harris has appeared in two: “No Time to Die” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” as MI6...
Clayton Davis | Variety Actor Corey Hawkins is incredibly grateful to know Denzel Washington, his legendary co-star in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” “I love that I get to walk in his footsteps, but I know I can never fill that man’s shoes,” Hawkins tells Variety’s Awards...