The public media partnership led by Maryland Public Television will present its first-ever HBCU Week NOW Student Film Festival in the winter of 2026. Produced in partnership with Black Public Media and the platform, the film festival is dedicated to showcasing the
By Variety After a series of online statements and quiet public appearances over recent months, Will Smith took further steps back into the spotlight Monday evening, appearing for an interview on âThe Daily Show With Trevor Noah.â Promoting his new historical drama âEmancipation,â Smithâs conversation with
By Daniel Moss 2022 marks the second year that Travis Scott supports HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The support comes in the form of scholarships via the Cactus Jack Foundationâs Waymon Webster Scholarship Fund. The project is run by Travis Scottâs
By Candice Williams âBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever,â which will be released nationwide Friday, is already on track to become a critical success. It offers a poignant and powerful tribute to the filmâs original Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020 from colon cancer.
By Randi Richardson âBlack Pantherâ director Ryan Coogler recently described his last conversation with Chadwick Boseman âa couple weeksâ before the actorâs death in 2020. In the new podcast âWakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast,â which launched Thursday, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates interviewed
By Claretta Bellamy The former Brooks Atkinson Theatre on West 47th Street in New York City has officially been renamed the Lena Horne Theatre. Lena Horne made history this week as the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named in
By Glen Weldon Black Adam is what happens when you build a movie from the outside in â when you start with the visuals and figure everything else will just fall into place. More to the point: Black Adam doesn’t work. To understand why, it
By Tonya Mosley Like many Black people in America, director Chinonye Chukwu grew up learning about the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman. But far fewer people
By Claretta Bellamy The Biden administrationâs initiative to spur prevention and treatment of cancer got a dose of celebrity support earlier this week, when singer Mary J. Blige joined Jill Biden and the American Cancer Society to announce national meetings on breast and cervical cancer. The
By Variety Disney and Marvel Studios finally unveiled Ryan Cooglerâs âBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreverâ at the filmâs world premiere in Hollywood on Wednesday evening. First reactions are emerging online now and they are overwhelmingly positive. It appears there wasnât a dry eye in the
By Marlene Lenthang Adidas has cut ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, after facing pressure to end its partnership with the rapper in the wake of his antisemitic comments with backlash mounting against the entertainer and leading to him losing additional business deals. âAdidas
