Last night, Regina King took home her first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk. King has been previously nominated for a Golden Globe based on her role in Netflix’s Seven Seconds and the drama series American Crime. During a […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Janelle Monáe has scored a role in the upcoming Gloria Steinem biopic titled The Glorias: A Life on the Road. Deadline reports that Monáe will star as civil rights activist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, who co-founded Ms. Magazine with the widely recognized feminist Gloria Steinem. The role fits Monáe well, as she is […]
Stan Lee, the legendary writer and visionary for Marvel Comics, passed away on Monday at the age of 95. Lee, who was considered a real-life superhero to comic book fans worldwide, often wrote characters that included racial and gender diversity. Following his death, a column that Lee penned in 1968 has once again gone viral, […]
According to a new profile of Solange by T: The New York Times Style Magazine, a follow-up to the artist’s 2016 album A Seat at the Table is upon us. It’s set as an imminent release, so fans can expect the album to arrive as a surprise, coming “into the world fully formed at some […]
Jaro Media Services is proud to sponsor the Short-Film Competition during the 13th Annual Peachtree Village International Film Festival. PVIFF 2018, the Southeast’s premiere international film and arts festival, returns with an exciting schedule of screenings, educational forums and networking from October 11-14, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Out of hundreds of submissions, PVIFF has […]
ABC has given the green light to a new drama written by Rosewood’s Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Deadline reports. The currently untitled drama will highlight a North Carolina town whose criminal justice system is run exclusively by women of color. Chelsea Barnum, the show’s protagonist, is seeking a fresh start after a failed marriage and recently […]
A new online movement is encouraging showrunners and writers to share photos of their writers’ rooms through social media, complete with the hashtag #ShowUsYourRoom, in order to reveal which shows are actually hiring with diversity and inclusion in mind. Founded by Amanda Idoko, a writer for upcoming the animated series “Central Park,” the initiative was […]
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards aired Monday, September 17th on NBC. Hosted by Saturday Night Live co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost, this year’s ceremony contained a variety of memorable moments. For the first time in nearly two decades, HBO didn’t dominate the evening, as Netflix became a fitting competitor due to hit series such […]
In a historic win at Sunday’s 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles, John Legend received an Emmy for his role as producer for the televised musical Jesus Christ Superstar. At only 39 years old, the win has landed Legend into the exclusive club of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winners, making […]
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, is not keeping quiet about her displeasure with the executive decision to not air the final installment of the six-part docuseries Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, which was decided by BET. Instead, BET went on to air a re-run of the New Edition story to lead the […]