According to Fandango, Letitia Wright is the highest box office-earning actor of 2018. According to Wright herself, people need to be paying her in reflection of that fact. Wright had key roles in some of the biggest films of 2018: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War...

Regina Hall’s career defies easy summation. The NYU journalism grad had an early stint on a soap opera, supporting roles in “The Best Man” and “Love and Basketball,” then mined for comedy in the Wayans brothers’ “Scary Movie.” That was the first year of her movie caree...

The 'Walking Dead' star discusses the impact of her screen roles and her blossoming theater career, including the new production headlining 'Black Panther' co-star Letitia Wright.

If Danai Gurira were any busier, she would probably explode.

As an actor, playwright, socia...

Tomi Adeyemi doesn’t live in a fantasy world, she just writes compellingly about one. Children of Blood and Bone, the first book in her young adult trilogy, was published in 2018 to acclaim, big sales, and a movie deal already in the works. In March, the second book in...

The first time Wanuri Kahiu remembers seeing African people onscreen falling in love was when she was a teenager.

“Americans were falling in love and Europeans were falling in love,” she said, “but Africans, we were never falling in love. The first time I saw an African...

As a kid, Michelle Obama rode around with her Chicago-precinct-captain father in his Buick during his visits to constituents. She later became friends with Jesse Jackson's daughter.

And it was from these experiences that she learned something important — that she wanted...

This story contains spoilers for The Hate U Give.

Starr Carter slides her feet into her favorite pair of Air Jordans—black retro Space Jam XIs— before hopping into her mother’s car and making the long trek to school. They pass the black-owned grocery stores, restaurants...

When the activist Tarana Burke started the original “Me Too” movement more than a decade ago on MySpace, she never imagined what a force it would become. Then on Oct. 15, 2017, the actress Alyssa Milano shared on Twitter a friend’s suggestion that “women who have been...

Though the ever-indecisive Chidi (William Jackson Harper) fell for Eleanor (Kristen Bell) in many of the alternate realities featured on The Good Place, he’s developed feelings for someone else back on Earth in season three: Dr. Simone Garnett, a bubbly, impulsive neur...

In addition to filming the Netflix show's third season, Browning is currently starring in a video that encourages people to volunteer before the midterms: "If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself then I'm not affecting any change in my time here on Ea...