We would be amiss to kick off African American Music Appreciation Month without mentioning the new documentary Teddy Pendergrass: If You...
Barry Jenkins, the Award-winning director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, is set to direct a film based on the life and work...
In the official trailer for Queen Sugar’s fourth season, Nova Bordelon (Rutina Wesley) is the source of heavy family tension as a result...
Last year, we featured Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel Freshwater in JARO’s curated list of books to read by women of color in 2018. After...
Tuca & Bertie is a Netflix animated series voiced by comedians Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish and produced by cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt...
OlaRonke Akinmowo is fulfilling her purpose, and enriching others’ lives in the process. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Akinmowo’s...
ABC has released the trailer for Kenya Barris’s latest black-ish spin-off, mixed-ish. The announcement comes not long after JARO...
Issa Rae has recently unveiled her ambitious new project: Adapting Tayari Jones’ Award-winning 2011 novel Silver Sparrow for the big...
A current exhibit at the California African American Museum (CAAM) honors the life and monumental artwork of Ernie Barnes (1938-2009)....
By MJ VanDevere and Doug Alston, co-founder of JARO Media Services Many of us know Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean), the legendary...
