Entertainment

Anti-Blackness serves again?: Serena Williams is drug-tested more than any other top US tennis player

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions hires Black queer scholar to ensure better representation

New study shows that focus on appearance creates big barriers for Black women in sports

Rwandan publishing house Imagine We is cultivating African storytelling for global readers

Smithsonian Museum of African American History acquires Wakandan artifacts

With Mary J. Blige set to star in ‘Body Cam’, we may have another Black horror hit soon

How do you mourn an abuser?: Rapper XXXtentacion killed outside motorcycle dealership in Florida

Jordan Peele will finally bring his Black horror genius to HBO with ‘Lovecraft Country’

How I learned to stop torturing myself in hopes of getting to “the good part” of bad entertainment

Poetry reading is up in America, but there’s still more work to be done to sustain readers

Kim Kardashian West lobbied to commute Alice Marie Johnson’s cruel sentence. Now she’s out.

Watch: Kofi Siriboe’s new documentary leads a necessary discussion about Black mental health

‘The First Purge’ will finally center people of color in its violent, dystopian narrative

Pusha-T’s second diss of Drake takes feud to new levels, with some calling it a low blow

Roseanne reboot cancelled, its star dropped from agency after anti-Black tweet

Non-profit honoring Kanye’s mother to change name after beef with Kim Kardashian

Morgan Freeman accused of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment by 8 women

Comic: Stop pretending there’s no room for people of color in the fantasy realm

NFL announces new fine for players who “take a knee,” players push back

The Obamas sign multiyear Netflix production deal

“Why can’t we just let Black people enjoy something?”

‘MTV Shuga’ is a messy millennial edutainment series educating African youth about sexual health

16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes

When your mother is your first abuser

Tina Knowles reveals she put her daughters in counseling at an early age

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’

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