“Just because you’re invited, doesn’t mean you’re welcome.” By Ayanna Thompson Take a cup of covert racism, three tablespoons of white supremacy, a teaspoon of chilling humor, a dash of ignorance, and stir with the politically charged ladle of our current state of the union, and voila — you’ve got Jordan Peele’s debut movie Get […]
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And if the commercials during the show are any indication, it most definitely won’t be the last. If BET had produced that Aaliyah biopic, maybe it would’ve made it back in one piece because the fire playing out on screen during last night’s airing of The New Edition Story, part one was everything. From the […]
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By Andréa Butler Amandla Stenberg is no stranger to activism, especially when it comes to her art. And she goes hard to make sure her messages are received. For her latest role in the upcoming movie, Where Hands Touch, Amandla didn’t opt for a prosthetic hair piece, choosing instead, to shave off all of her […]
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Earlier this week (Dec. 5), Netflix announced another addition to it’s 2017 original movie lineup — Burning Sands — and the casting is dope! The film will star Imani Hakim, Trevor Jackson, Serayah, and Trevante Rhodes, just to name a few, and as you probably guessed from the title, it’ll center around pledges during a […]
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It looks like Tony Stark will be hanging up his Iron Man suit soon, and when he does, Riri Williams — a new Marvel character — will put it on. According to TIME, Riri is so beast at science — genius level, in fact — that she gets to enroll in MIT at the age […]
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By Andréa Butler You know you’re a straight up #boss when you can land a movie deal for a book that’s not even published yet. And that’s exactly what author Angie Thomas has done. Her debut novel, The Hate U Give — which isn’t set to be released until next spring — is inspired by […]
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Ok, so if we’re keeping things all the way 100, Drumline: A New Beat and Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B didn’t quite work out for Alexandra Shipp. But recently, she nabbed the role of Storm in the X-Men prequel, X-Men: Apocolypse, which is set to hit theaters in 2016. Not only that, but this 23-year-old starlet also has […]
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By Andréa Butler Like the rest of y’all, we were watching Lifetime’s new biopic, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B last night. We were hoping for some serious slayage, but it turns out, our hopes were too high. For real, though, a big-screen film with a much bigger budget, not to mention family approval and collaboration, would […]
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Oh snap. Zendaya won’t be playing the role of Aaliyah anymore, after all. And no, it’s not because the Twitterverse freaked out a little about her being cast. Apparently, according to E! News, there were production issues, such as trouble getting the rights to ‘Liyah’s music. It also turns out that Aaliyah’s family wasn’t even […]
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The interwebz are all abuzz about Aaliyah: Princess of R&B, the working title for the brand-new Lifetime TV biopic about Aaliyah that’s scheduled to drop sometime this fall. Airing not long after the 13th anniversary of the star’s death, this made-for-TV movie will follow ‘Liyah from her Star Search debut to the plane crash […]
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