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The black-ish series finale aired earlier this year after eight seasons, but the Kenya Barris project’s legacy lives on through its Freeform spin-off grown-ish, which is now in its fifth season. For five seasons, fans have followed along as Zoey Johnson, played by Yara Shahidi, made a place for herself in the world as a college student […]
Yara Shahidi is now a Harvard graduate. As fans will note, Shahidi has been counting down the days until graduation on Instagram as late, ultimately sharing a commemorative post on Thursday. “Yara (noun): a Harvard graduate,” the 22-year-old wrote when sharing a pair of graduation photos taken by Paul Mardy. A Vogue piece published Thursday […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Michelle Obama has taken on plenty of roles throughout her life, including one in NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” but now […]
Marsai Martin, fresh off being honored with the 2021 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Youth and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in black-ish, has detailed her “no Black pain” approach to selecting projects to bring to life under her Genius Entertainment banner in a new interview. In […]
According to Deadline, MGM is set to partner with black-ish creator Kenya Barris for a movie based on legendary comic Richard Pryor. This comes after the studio reportedly won a contentious battle at auction over rights to make the film, with Deadline noting that this new acquisition comes after MGM had also already obtained the rights for a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic. […]
Stacey Abrams is just weeks away from her sitcom debut. The former Georgia gubernatorial candidate has been tapped to star in a partially animated episode of black-ish. Deadline reports the two-part special will follow the Johnson family as they navigate the upcoming election. Part 1 will focus on Junior’s (Marcus Scribner) journey as a first-time voter who ultimately discovers his […]
The black-ish squad has been putting in work. The most recent news is ABC giving the “-ish” universe another spin-off, but one of the bigger moments has been the long-lost “Please, Baby, Please” episode finally being released earlier this year. Light on laughs (and heavy on reality), this episode does what black-ish does best: throwing the systemic racism and other social […]
According to The Hollywood Reporter a new Black-ish spin-off, this time focusing on the senior-most Johnsons, is in development at ABC. For those keeping count, this would mark the fourth installment of the franchise, after Grown-ish, Mixed-ish, and the original series. As one can perhaps tell from the intro sentence or lead image, the new show would center around Earl “Pops” […]
An episode of Black-ish that was shelved for over two years will finally see the light of day. Black-ish creator, Kenya Barris, revealed via Instagram on Monday that an episode titled “Please, Baby, Please” from season 4 will now be available for fans to watch on Hulu. “On November 2017, we made an episode of black-ish entitled […]
Kenya Barris is showing no signs of slowing down. Over the past several years, the 45-year-old multihyphenate has directed, written, produced, and even starred in several big and small-screen projects, the most popular of which is arguably the Ish TV franchise. Barris introduced that universe in 2014 with the critically acclaimed ABC sitcom Black-ish, and has since developed the Grown-ish and […]
