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She Got That Glow: We Got the Secrets Behind Yara Shahidi’s All Grown-ish Up Look at the SAG Awards
The 2018 Grammys are tonight, but the fashion world is still raving about the looks from last Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. And we can’t breathe one word about that evening’s red carpet without acknowledging our current and forever #Fave, Yara Shahidi. Like, we may have to come up with a concept stronger than #Goals…
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Black-ish Star Marsai Martin Will Star in and Executive-Produce Comedy Little
Oh, Black Girl Magic, how awesome art thou? Let me count the ways. But seriously, how amazing is 13-year-old Marsai Martin? The Black-ish star, who delights the audience with her clever delivery, is now not only an actor but also a creator, an executive producer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marsai will star in the…
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Grown-ish Renewed for 20-Episode 2nd Season
Grown-ish isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and is that really a surprise? The show is one of the best things to happen in the past year, earning critical praise upon its release and boasting a 91 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. And now, as Variety reports, the TV hit, a spinoff from the ABC series…
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Equal Pay for Equal Laughs: #TimesUp Meeting Reveals Tracee Ellis Ross Paid ‘Significantly Less’ Than Anthony Anderson
At a recent meeting of Time’s Up, the initiative spearheaded by Hollywood actresses with the aim of addressing sexual assault and workplace harassment and inequality, there was a lot said about Tracee Ellis Ross getting paid “significantly less” than her Black-ish co-star Anthony Anderson. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the conversation centered on the gender…
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It’s a Different Show: Grown-ish Isn’t A Different World—and I’m Cool With That
This week, Grown-ish premiered on Freeform to big fanfare. Everyone is loving it. I’m loving it. My inner queer squealed when Zoey was completely chill with her bisexual friend Nomi. I was thrilled to see bisexual visibility on the show, and hope there will be more queer visibility overall—not just for jokes or sensational provocation,…
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10 Black-Ass Things That Were Awesome About the 1st 2 Episodes of Grown-ish
Last night, the Yara Shahidi-led vehicle Grown-ish debuted. For those not in the know, it’s a spinoff from hit ABC show Black-ish that focuses on Shahidi’s character, Zoey, and her journey from super-sheltered private school student to college freshman in this millennial world. Comparisons to A Different World will undoubtedly exist, but fuck that shit.…
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Jenifer Lewis Is the Mother of Black Hollywood and She Has the Receipts to Back It Up
It seems as if you can hear her laugh from miles away. Her smile is so bright it lights up the darkest theater, cabaret, movie or television screen. Jenifer Lewis—of Black-ish; Broadway’s Eubie!; the films Beaches, Poetic Justice and What’s Love Got to Do With It, among scores of others—is fearless. That’s a good thing…
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Yara Shahidi’s Black-ish Spinoff to Be Called Grown-ish
Grown-ish will be the name of the Black-ish spinoff that follows Zoey, Yara Shahidi’s character, to the University of Southern California for college. Chris Parnell, Trevor Jackson and Emily Arlook will join Shahidi and Deon Cole in the Grown-ish cast, Entertainment Weekly reports. Creator Kenya Barris wrote in a statement, “Grown-ish reflects what we’ll be…