Kathleen Newman-Bremang

The 2021 Oscars, like Tyler Perry’s speech, almost had me.  The broadcast started with a beaming Regina Thee King doing what she does best: being fl

Lighting up could be the answer to burning down the tropes that have sidelined Black women characters for decades. It's high time for new strains of stoner

It’s easy to root for everybody Black at the NAACP Image Awards, a show specifically created to honour the achievements of Black artists and entertainers

There’s a scene in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film Judas And The Black Messiah that, even amidst all of its buzz and accolades, I don’t

There were gasps on gasps. Bombshell after bombshell. Enough explosive comments to keep the world rapt and Twitter ablaze for two straight hours. And yet,

There’s a gif of the late Chadwick Boseman from the 2019 Oscars I think about a lot. It’s from the moment Green Book wins Best Picture. As the mostly-w

Activists Janaya Future Khan of the Black Lives Matter movement and Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, come together to discuss activism in 2021 and

Welcome to “What’s Good,” where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world. What’s Good? Kissing. On t

This piece was originally published on August 31, 2020. Walking into the theatre to see Black Panther in February 2018 was the closest I’d come to going

It only takes moments into Regina King’s directorial debut before you realize — like really start to understand — what the term “actor’s director

Kamala Harris’s position as the first Black woman Vice President-elect of the United States  comes with an invisible tightrope. We’ve seen her wal

2020 took more than it gave, shook more than it soothed, and damaged more than it healed. But in the debris left behind in its hellscape, embers of hope fl

This post contains spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 and is based on the Netflix series alone, not the books.  Bridgerton’s elevator pitch goes like

'Promising Young Woman' is an emotional rollercoaster—so is this conversation with the Emmy-nominated actress and activist.

Welcome to “What’s Good,” a column where we break down what’s soothing, distracting, or just plain good in the streaming world. What’s Good? Jing

It’s at once eerie and infuriating that almost every protest scene in Steve McQueen’s Mangrove—the first film in his Amazon anthology series, Small A

Black-owned businesses are in trouble. In the midst of a racial injustice reckoning and a social media push to #BuyBlack this year, you may have thought ot