Susan Kelechi Watson wows us every week on the hit NBC show This Is Us. Her natural beautyâfrom her bouncy curls to her tight curvesâis the perfect embodiment of her character, Beth Pearson, who is, well ... perfect.
Somehow, I didnât realize that This Is Us had returned to my Tuesday nights. The last episode I saw was THE episode where Jack [CENSORED]. You know what? â[CENSORED]â means died. Bought the farm. Kicked the bucket. And any other euphemism for dying you can think of. Anyway, on Facebook, I saw somebody mention thisâŚ
Who could forget this guyâs performance in Black Panther? Sterling K. Brown is killing everything he touches. He now intends to move forward into writing and directing his own projects as well.
SPOILER ALERT. ALL THE SPOILER ALERTS.
This second season of This Is Us has been interesting. For starters, itâs nowhere near as emotional as the first season was, for better and worse. Until last nightâs episode, âNumber Three,â Iâd only shed tears maybe once. That ALL changed last night, though, buddy.
Itâs that time of year again. White folks are clamoring at Starbucks for their pumpkin-spice lattes, and black folks are calling around to make sure Aunt Sheila is still making her signature turkey this year ... itâs Thanksgiving! And while many of us side-eye the massacre and theft masquerading as a family-friendlyâŚ
A little backstory on how we got to the point where this is even a thing: On Nov. 17, 2016, I wrote a piece called âQueen Sugar Hits This Dad Right in the Feels.â By the end of that day, life was different; anything was possible. The piece published first thing in the morning that day. By 2 p.m., I received a callâŚ
After the dysfunction of Scandalâs Olivia and Fitz, Issa and Lawrence of Insecure, and just about every reality-TV couple, Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) on NBCâs This Is Us are just the representation of #BlackLove that viewers need.
Editorâs note: Season 1 spoilers throughout!
I thought it couldnât get any better than Sterling K. Brown winning an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for This Is Us. But it did! The head makeup artist on This Is Us, Zoe Hay, and head hairstylist Michael Reitz decided to gift the world with a snapshot of Brown proudly holding his new Emmy with his shirtâŚ
Let us bow our heads in prayer.
The first black actor Brian Tyree Henry saw on television was Jasmine Guy, in A Different World. Henry was absolutely enamored.
Like a lot of young men today, Jason Wilson, CEO of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy in Detroit, grew up without his father around. Struggling with his emotions and resentment toward his mother, Wilson turned to the martial arts.
(There are very, very light spoilers in this piece. None of them tell you much of about the plot of the show.)
Earlier this month, Nielsen unveiled a study examining the broader appeal of black-led and/or -focused contentâparticularly in television. It begins with acknowledgment that black people play a pivotal role in shaping various sectors of popular culture in the U.S. In its findings, â73 percent of non-Hispanic whitesâŚ
Iâm not much of a crier. But for the last couple of months, I can count on crying, or at least getting misty-eyed, every Tuesday night thanks to NBCâs This Is Us. And during this weekâs episode, and through all of the spoilers on social media, even after watching it On Demand, I sobbed like a baby for at least a goodâŚ
Alan Thicke, best known for his role as the lovable Dr. Jason Seaver on the â80s sitcom Growing Pains, died Tuesday at the age of 69. Thickeâs death was confirmed with the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday by a publicist for his son, pop-soul singer Robin Thicke.
Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networksÂâABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don't count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)âmake a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversityÂâexcept, apparently, CBS, whoseâŚ
