SAG Awards 2019: Sterling K. Brown Double-Fists Statuettes as This Is Us and Black Panther Take Home Ensemble Wins
And “The Actor” goes to... Blackness!
Sterling K. Brown Almost Had His Challenge Day as M'Baku in Black Panther, but Ryan Coogler Had Other Ideas
IT’S CHALLENGE DAY—Well, it was for Sterling K. Brown. Almost.
2019 So Black: 10 Black Films and TV Shows Worth Looking Forward To
As 2018 gets ready to make her final curtain call curtsy, 2019 is about to strut onto the stage with a fierceness…
This Is Us Star Lonnie Chavis Claps Back at Trolls Who Made Fun of the Gap in His Teeth
What is the world coming to when a 10-year-old has to gather (presumably) grown-ass trolls and straighten them out?
This Is Me: At Home With Susan Kelechi Watson
Susan Kelechi Watson wows us every week on the hit NBC show This Is Us. Her natural beauty—from her bouncy curls to…
‘I Gotta Go. And I Can’t Take Her With Me’: A Mother’s Love on This Is Us
Somehow, I didn’t realize that This Is Us had returned to my Tuesday nights. The last episode I saw was THE episode…
Watch: Sterling K. Brown on the Success of Black Panther and His Next Career Moves
Who could forget this guy’s performance in Black Panther? Sterling K. Brown is killing everything he touches. He now…
This Is Us Finally Showed Us What Happened to Jack and the Episode Almost Took Me Out
SPOILER ALERT. ALL THE SPOILER ALERTS.
Howard University All Up and Through This Is Us Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
This second season of This Is Us has been interesting. For starters, it’s nowhere near as emotional as the first season…
Thanksgiving and Chill: All the Shows to Binge-Watch Before You Get ‘The Itis’
It’s that time of year again. White folks are clamoring at Starbucks for their pumpkin-spice lattes, and black folks…
Hey, Y’all, I Met Oprah. Here’s What Happened
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 “Quee…
#RelationshipGoals: 10 Reasons We Love This Is Us Couple Beth and Randall
After the dysfunction of Scandal’s Olivia and Fitz, Issa and Lawrence of Insecure, and just about every reality-TV…
To the ‘Unapologetically Black’ Beth Pearson of This Is Us, With Love
Editor’s note: Season 1 spoilers throughout!
Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic
I thought it couldn’t get any better than Sterling K. Brown winning an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for Th…
A Prayer for My Emotions as This Is Us Embarks on Its 2nd Season
Let us bow our heads in prayer.
Watch: Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry’s Emmy Mixtape
The first black actor Brian Tyree Henry saw on television was Jasmine Guy, in A Different World. Henry was absolutely…
Meet
the Detroit Mentor Who Inspired That Emotional Father-Son Scene in This Is Us
Like a lot of young men today, Jason Wilson, CEO of the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy in Detroit,…
I Binged Watched ‘This Is Us’ And My Feelings Are In Shambles. I May Never Recover. ZOMG!
(There are very, very light spoilers in this piece. None of them tell you much of about the plot of the show.)