Award-winning actor Mahershala Ali celebrates his 48th birthday today. The Oakland bred actor has had a successful career over the years, receiving countless accolades for his performances onscreen. We celebrate his many achievements with a gallery of his most handsome photos inside.
Amazon Prime's The Underground Railroad from Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins debuted on the streaming platform May 14. The young actor Chase Dillion, who plays Homer in the series shares how influential the direction of Barry Jenkins has played in his career.
Mahershala Ali is taking his talents to television. According to Deadline, the Oscar winner will be the star of the upcoming third season of HBO’s True Detective. Rumors began to surface earlier this summer that the Moonlight actor snagged the lead role on the Nic Pizzolatto‘s series, and now that season three of the crime anthology has […]
The storytelling of writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is coming to OWN. The one-half of the Moonlight writing team just got a show greenlit by the network. McCraney will serve as an executive producer along with Michael B. Jordan. According to Variety, this will be McCraney’s first television series. It follows a 14-year-old prodigy from the projects haunted […]
Earlier this week I sat down with Lakeith Stanfield. You might know him from the hit show Atlanta or the “Moonlight” music video where Jay-Z gathered the hottest actors in Hollywood to create a Black version of Friends. Lakeith was in New York City to promote his new film Crown Heights. It tells the story of […]
With Rae as Rachel and Jerrod Carmichael playing Ross, Jay-Z's "Moonlight" stars an all-Black remake of Friends, which the woke know was actually the all-White remake of Living Single.
A wave of fresh Black talent is making its way to film and television in a way that was missing only a few years ago. From successful shows like Atlanta to award sweeping movies like Moonlight, audiences are finally getting what they’ve been wanting for a while — diverse and nuanced voices that entertain and […]
Another day, another instance of VLAD TV taunting Lord Jamar with LGBTQ news. Just in case you didn’t know, Lord Jamar from the hip-hop group Brand Nubian is homophobic, transphobic, sexist and many other things that can only be revealed in, you guessed it, a sit-down with VLAD TV. In a recent catch-up with the […]
Mahershala Ali is loving new fatherhood. The Oscar winning actor took to Instagram to share a photo of his daughter, Bari Najma Ali, who was born on February 24. In the black and white pic posted to Instagram, Mahershala held his baby girl in his hands as she sat on his lap. The adorable father-daughter moment was […]
The Oscars employees responsible for the unfortunate envelope error embody Trump's America.
Denzel Washington might not have won an Oscar Sunday night, but he did get to leave with his integrity. On the first night back at work hosting his late night show on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel revealed how Denzel came to the rescue in the final moments of the Oscars ceremony after a flustered Faye Dunaway wrongfully […]
