The nominees for the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been unveiled. Nominees that spotlight Black talent include I May Destroy You, Pose, The Underground Railroad, Bridgerton, Genius: Aretha, Hamilton, Lovecraft Country, This Is Us, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and black-ish. Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) and Cynthia
Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union will star in The Inspection, an upcoming LGBTQ+ drama based on the autobiographical story of Elegance Bratton. The Inspection serves as Bratton’s feature-film debut. Set to begin production this summer, the drama film will follow Pope (One Night in Miami), who plays a young gay
All American: Homecoming, a spinoff of the hit sports drama television series All American, has been picked up by The CW. Written and executive produced by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, the series will follow the HBCU college experience of a young tennis player from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player
Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective will feature a curated collection of projects from creatives of color and marginalized voices. The brand will be presented on Hulu. Freeform president Tara Duncan is set to lead Onyx Collective. “We’re building a home where creators of color are inspired, empowered and have unparalleled
With the final season of Insecure approaching, fans have been hoping for a spinoff series in the future. While nothing has been set in stone, Issa Rae revealed to ET in an interview that there’s certainly a possibility that season five won’t be the last time that we’ll see the
Akwaeke Emezi’s upcoming 2022 romance novel You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is set to be adapted as a film. Amazon Studios won the highly competitive bidding battle, and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society will develop. This marks the first major film property acquisition for Jordan. Emezi
Them, the new horror anthology series by Little Marvin, explores racial terror in 1950s America. In conversation with Shadow and Act, Little Marvin shared his thoughts on what home truly means, and how he’s creating space for more Black horror stories to be told. Witnessing the terrorization of Black people
Following the buzzing teaser last week, the official trailer for Amazon’s upcoming anthology series THEM has been released today, and it is bone-chilling. Executively produced by Lena Waithe and created by Little Marvin, the limited series explores racism and terror in 1950s America. When a Black family moves from North
FX has ordered a pilot for Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 classic novel Kindred, which will be written and produced by playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. According to Variety, the show will follow Dana, a young Black aspiring writer who has left her constricted familial life behind and relocated
