2022 Black History Month

Jimmy Akingbola finds that there is a lot more work for British Black men to be found in the United States than in his native United Kingdom. In his opinion, it is hard to truly breakthrough in the UK, while in the US, there are more leading roles and characters with substance.

After he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a drama series for This Is Us in 2018, Sterling K. Brown opened up backstage on the legacy of being Black in Hollywood and working twice as hard as his white colleagues.

Designing a Future Where Others Can Follow Ruth E. Carter is a legend in Costume Design with credits to her name like Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Lee Daniel’s The Butler and Selma.

Alex Simmons, like his character BlackJack, is one of the great unsung heroes of the black community. Simmons is an award-winning freelance writer, educator, creator of comic books, screenplays, and stage plays.

Who gives away his award to a fellow nominee? Only a man with the biggest heart. In one of the most iconic moments in live television, Ving Rhames, the 1998 winner for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for playing Don King, did just that and handed his Golden Globe to Jack Lemmon.

Actor Will Smith, actress Sherri Shepherd, and journalist Jemele Hill are just a handful of the stars who won awards at the NAACP Image Awards on Monday night. This year the show is virtual and happens over six consecutive nights.

Vaudeville spanned from the early 1880s to the early 1930s, and at its height, employed more than 50,000 people in 5,000 venues all over the country. Musicians, dancers, magicians, jugglers, ventriloquists, puppeteers, animal acts all occupied the same bill and kept audiences entertained.

The 53rd NAACP Image Awards celebrating Black Excellence in entertainment happens on Saturday, February 26, 2022, on BET 8/7 Central. It culminates a week of awards on consecutive days starting February 21 that encompasses not only film, television and music, but also literature, fashion, news, podcasts and more.

When Regina Taylor won Best Actress in a Drama Series for I’ll Fly Away in 1993, she did not know that her show would not get renewed by the network. But she was not wrong calling the story of a Southern civil rights lawyer in the late 1950s and the Black nanny who cares for his children “the best show on the air”.

In a country where language, music, food, dance, spirituality, and culture are filled with all things Africa, one would imagine that Black filmmakers and actors would dominate the movie and TV scene in Brazil. Think again.