Television
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Michael K. Williams Joins the Cast of Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five
Omar coming to a small screen near you as Michael K. Williams joins the cast of Central Park Five, a limited four-episode series that Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay is creating, writing and directing for Netflix. Central Park Five is based on the true story of five teenagers of color from Harlem—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson,…
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Insecure Season 3 Is Coming Back: Where’s Lawrence?
Insecure is coming back! But is Lawrence gone? On Sunday, HBO released the Season 3 trailer of the wildly popular (at least with us) show. I can’t believe that all our favorite shows make us wait a whole year to see what happens. I mean who actually remembers what happened in Season 2? For this…
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Netflix's On My Block Is My Favorite Binge Watch of the Summer and Thank Goodness They Renewed It For a 2nd Season
There are no spoilers in this post. Netflix’s original series, On My Block, tells the story of four friends—Monse, Jamal, Ruby, and Cesar—from the fictional inner-city, gang-heavy Los Angeles neighborhood of Freeridge. They’re about to start high school and the summer has created rifts and issues amongst them, though they somehow manage to stay tight…
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The 10 Most Awesome Parts of The Roots x Backstreet Boys x Jimmy Fallon's 'I Want It That Way' Classroom-Instruments Video
1. Black Thought—possibly the greatest rapper of all time, in the back row in a white, cat-daddy ensemble, complete with white, cat-daddy hat—getting his entire life with a triangle. 2. Black Thought having possibly more fun than anybody else singing the greatest song to ever come out of the white boy-band phenomenon of the late…
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Power Is Finally Back. I Can't Wait For Every Character to Die
(This article contains mild spoilers. Very mild.) Power is one of those shows that is must-see television for me. I’ve been waiting all year for its return so my nephew and I can get back to our after-show debates and commiserate on what shenanigans just ensued. I love the show. But I must admit, I…
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Dear Mariah and Shades on Luke Cage … I Love You, but 'OMG Please Stop!'
Unlike everyone else in the world, I didn’t watch all of season 2 of Luke Cage until this weekend. So that meant I didn’t get to be thoroughly and properly freaked out by this season’s “It” couple, Mariah Stokes Dillard (Alfre Woodard) and Hernan “Shades” Alvarez (Theo Rossi), until June 30, a full week after…
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The Cast of Power Talks Season 5, Redemption and Forgiveness
Starz’s top-rated show Power is set to come back this Sunday, July 1, thrusting us right back where we left off: into shock and mourning. But first … season 4 spoiler alert!!! Ready? You were warned! (And you had a whole year to get caught up.) Most of us are still shook from Raina’s tragic…