Last summer, Marvel Studios announced the lead of its upcoming Blade reboot and everyone collectively lost their…

Hey, guess what, y’all? We have yet another reason to believe Hollywood is so inherently racist it even goes against…

In 2002, Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, thanks to her work in…

Award-winning actresses Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Halle Berry, Taraji P. Henson, Lynn Whitfield, Kimberly Elise…

For creators of color, one of the biggest challenges is securing the funding needed to bring our dreams to life.…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Hollywood has a bit of a diversity problem.

It’s 2020 and this awards season is looking real white. What happened to all of those “diversity” initiatives, you…

It’s been 15 years since Sex and the City set the standard for what it meant to be a successful working woman in New…

In corporate America, being a black woman can be lonely as fuck, especially once you reach a certain level of power…

The Oscars may still be a little whiter than we’d like in the leading actress and actor categories, but for their…

It was 2017, and I was sitting in a packed theater in Salt Lake City, Utah watching horror-themed short films…

The last two years have shown Hollywood that diversity in front of and behind the camera pays major dividends, both…

Director Jon M. Chu thought he was done with crying over Crazy Rich Asians.

As his career shows, Michael B. Jordan has not been one to shy away from complex portrayals of black people. The…

The critically acclaimed drama from Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, Queen Sugar, returns to OWN in May, and once…

When writer-director Jordan Peele won his Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2017’s biggest hit, Get Out, I cheered.…

Ava DuVernay is super clear about how Hollywood is still a white man’s game. Although she is set to release a $100…

Viola Davis is sick of Hollywood’s shit.

Welcome to my Caucasian home, said the Golden Globes this morning, before flooding us with the sort of nominations…

Jason Johnson, our political editor at The Root and an in-real-life close and personal friend of mine, wrote this…