Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Get to know the name, because if you have one of her works hanging on your wall, chances are it’s worth a pretty penny. Born in Nigeria, the Los Angeles-based artist moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager with the intention of studying medicine, but after taking an art class on a […] More
Synopsis: Tyler Perry wrote and directed this comedy starring Tiffany Haddish as an uncouth ex-con who turns the life of her straight-laced sister (Tika Sumpter) upside-down after getting out of jail. More
Winner of the HBO Short Film Competition at the 2016 American Black Film Festival, Flowers is a dramatic short about two teenage girls (Amee Apedo and Belle Le Grand) who form a revenge plot against an older man that doesn’t go quite as expected. Who is he, and what do they have against him? Find […] More
It seems like everybody nowadays wants to be a rapper, and every rapper nowadays wants to be lil’. But if every rapper is lil’, then no rapper is lil’. At some point, lil’ ceases to have any meaning. That’s why it’s important to separate the real lil’ rappers from the pretend lil’ rappers. Some are […] More
Synopsis: From the director of Green Room comes this wilderness thriller about a retired wolf expert (Jeffrey Wright) who’s called in to investigate the disappearance of a child in the wilds of Alaska. More
Synopsis: This horror-comedy is set in a strange town where humans live alongside ghosts and other supernatural beings. There, a waitress (Zazie Beetz) and a delivery guy (Chance the Rapper) who may or may not be a werewolf try to unmask a serial killer preying on pizza delivery drivers. More
By now, we know all of Michael Jackson’s songs by heart, so why not put a fresh spin on them by giving them the 8-bit treatment? After all, what’s more retro than songs from the ’80s that sound like video games from the ’80s? Groove to this 8-Bit King of Pop playlist for some strangely irresistible […] More
Synopsis: In this comedy from director Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip, The Best Man, Undercover Brother), Kevin Hart stars as a man who joins a group of misfits forced to attend adult classes. Tiffany Haddish plays their teacher, who’s tasked with the impossible mission of getting them to pass their GED exam. More
Childish Gambino just dropped a new animated video for his perfect, summer-beach-chill-out song. The song was released as a part of an EP in July, but the “Feel Like Summer” video was just released on September 2nd. It’s no longer summer in most of the U.S., but with a pair of headphones, this song can […] More
Back in August 1985, Ebony magazine published an article entitled “Portraits of the Stars” in which they predicted how various black celebrities would look in the year 2000. At the time, the year 2000 sounded like a long way away, but in truth, it was only 15 years, so frankly, there shouldn’t have been a […] More
Leave it to Aretha Franklin to throw a party / concert like no other. What happens when a diva has the opportunity to plan her own funeral? Beauty, opulence, fierceness, excess…all these things and more. Here are some of the best performances from her 9 hour homegoing ceremony. More
Synopsis: Amandla Stenberg stars in this coming-of-age tale set in Nazi Germany as Leyna, the 15-year-old “Rhineland bastard” daughter of a white German mother (Abbie Cornish) and a black African father. She makes an unlikely connection with Lutz (George MacKay), a member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi solider. As Leyna […] More
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