Two years ago, Atlanta debuted on FX, and it immediately became a hit. With a first-season win for Donald Glover of Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, as well as a Peabody and Golden Globe awards, was there any doubt that the show would be…

A few weeks ago, a video surfaced of a white kid named Cooper participating in a step show. Cooper’s enthusiasm immediately made him a YouTube sensation.

If Tyler Perry was able to get his Boondock’s episode scrubbed from every crack of the interwebs, it is entirely plausible that the whitest of all white womanhood, Taylor Swift, would be just the girl to dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool.

If there’s one thing Donald Glover wants you to know, it’s that his schedule didn’t kill Deadpool.

Donald Glover, FX and Marvel have split up over “creative differences” on a proposed animated Deadpool series. When the project was announced, Glover, along with his brother Stephen, was slated to create the animated, adult action-comedy series for FX’s comedy-focused platform, FXX.

During “Sportin’ Waves,” the episode of Atlanta that aired Thursday night, Earn received a generous and unexpected payout from Darius’ puppy-related investments in season 1. Armed with this unanticipated cash, the still-homeless and aggressively underemployed Earn invests it in a gift card scheme suggested by Tracy, a…

If you were busting a gut over “Florida Man” in Atlanta’s season premiere, it turns out you had lots of good company.

The trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, debuting on FX on Wednesday, ironically sparked a flood of gorgeous memories for me about working with Versace. This, despite the fact that the Versace family has issued a press release calling the series—based on Vanity Fair…

Save for Oprah’s show-stealing speech, the Golden Globes were, for the most part, awash in white people in black dresses.

As a child I was always hyper-aware of the attempts at social climbing my parents made to move my siblings and me up the ladder rungs of black society. There were the Jack and Jill activities with the children of the Pastor at our local Megachurch, the etiquette classes that taught present-day me to chew my Chipotle…

When FX first announced their partnership with NBC workhorse Donald Glover for their new show about the inner-workings of an up and coming rapper and his manager, I assumed scenes like the ones that take place in Atlanta’s “The Club” would be par for the course. Club appearances and popped bottles are, after all, much…

“Most people don’t realize their chakras are in another universe.”

Atlanta has thus far been able to paint a lush picture of black life for television, a portrait that includes the various shades of black masculinity and how it can sometimes feel pigeon-holed to certain stock archetypes, essentially robbing black men of their humanity. The show through use of stunning cinematography,…

Atlanta hasn’t been afraid to tackle race in America head-on, specifically how black men are forced to walk the delicate line between being individuals and being a statistic in a country that assumes they have already lost this rigged game. Atlanta doesn’t just tackle the capital “R” racism, however. It delves into…

“Me and my mans make baby sneakers… for adults!”

On last night's episode of FX's awesomely awesome new show, the Donald Glover-helmed, Atlanta, there's a scene towards the end where Earn's kinda-sorta girlfriend but definitely baby mama, Vanessa, is doing that thing that people do when you tell them that you do "music", she lets him know that being an aspiring…

“Can I just please get a kids meal?”