Make no mistake about it: Issa Rae is still on her content-creating grind after the success of her online fictional Web series Awkward Black Girl. Except now she’s in Hollywood trying to work with production companies and television networks to get her stuff on television and in front of a bigger audience.  To say that…

Secondary school in Nigeria is roughly equivalent to seventh through 12th grades in the United States, and also equivalent to the fun times, first relationships, academic stresses and growing pains that have come to define those formative years in high school. No one is exactly sure how it started, but as of press time, Nigerians…

Ever wonder what life is like for a female mechanic? That combination is probably an oxymoron in several cultures, but now imagine how interesting that experience must be for a female mechanic living and working in Nigeria—the richest and most populous country in Africa.  If you have access to Al-Jazeera English, you’ll be able to…

Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director who brought us Love & Basketball, feels like she’s experienced firsthand the rules that Hollywood decision-makers live by when deciding what kind of people will watch certain films.  Those decision-makers also include online distribution engines like Netflix.  Prince-Bythewood was on Netflix, and in the “more like this” section related to her 2014 film,…

“Yeah, you’re hearing that right.” That about sums up the response women—especially black women—often have to give whenever people express shock to find out that they’re engineers. So it makes sense that the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag on Twitter went viral. Female engineers have been posting photos of themselves to discredit the idea that all engineers are…

These two are unstoppable. Mara Brock Akil and her husband, Salim Akil, are the creative forces (Mara writes the content and Salim shoots ’em) behind some of the best TV ever to feature African-American characters and experiences: Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane. Those shows have attracted millions of viewers, so it’s only natural that the…

It seems that we can always count on the Curry family to brighten up our day, especially when their 3-year-old daughter, Riley Curry, is involved. NBA champion Stephen Curry posted a couple of photos on his Instagram page that show the latest addition to his family: a new baby girl by the name of Ryan…

How inappropriate. On Wednesday the National Enquirer published a photo on its website of Bobbi Kristina Brown lying in a hospital bed. They say it was taken right before she died July 26. The Enquirer claims to have additional photos of a deceased Brown that readers can access if they buy the latest issue of the…

It’s a wonderful thing to have friends in high places.  Just ask Taraji P. Henson, who seemed like she was already doing pretty well during a lip-synching battle that had her competing against her Empire co-star Terrence Howard. Henson is seen performing Mary J. Blige’s “I’m Fine” in a video clip from Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle.…

Sophia Eggleston of Detroit thinks the similarities between herself and Empire’s Cookie Lyon are too strong to be a coincidence, so she’s suing the show’s creators for $300 million, the New York Post reports.  Eggleston claims that she wrote a book about her life as a “drug kingpin” and went to Los Angeles and hand-delivered…