Category: News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

.@NikkiBeharie hosts public television series online

.@BLKPublicMedia presents AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange

Cary Fukunaga is Directing a Movie About the Bombing of Hiroshima

Read about it at AVClub.com.

Director Cary Fukunaga

Director Cary Fukunaga

‘Moonlight’s’ Alex R. Hibbert Wants to be a Scientist and is Planning to Spend Acting Money on Cancer Research

Read about it at Indiewire.com.

Twelve-year-old Hibbert stars as the young Chiron in Moonlight (2016).

Twelve-year-old Hibbert stars as the young Chiron in Moonlight (2016).

‘Scalped’ Comic Book TV Pilot Finds Its Directors

Click here to read at Screenrant.com.

Scalped is a critically acclaimed crime/western comic book series written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by R. M. Guéra.

Scalped is a critically acclaimed crime/western comic book series written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by R. M. Guéra.

RIP Jiro Taniguchi

LINK: The manga great passed away at age 69

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Rosario Dawson Wants To Play Live-Action Ahsoka Tahno

LINK: Will she be joining the Star Wars universe?

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FOX X-Men Series Gets First Cast Member in Blair Redford

Read at Comingsoon.net.

The 33-year-old actor from Atlanta is of Irish, French, German, and Native American descent.

Actor Blair Redford

Actor Blair Redford

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Opposing US Immigration Ban

LINK: CBLDF joined cultural institutions & human rights organizations issuing joint statement

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Netflix Has Announced a Castlevania TV Show for 2017

Read all about it at io9.com.

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BLACK: Where Only Black People Have Superpowers #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: “In a world that already fears and hates them!”

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