The ladies of Sony’s Spider-verse film, Madame Web, are in their growth seasons! The cast members talked to Trey Mangum, managing editor of Blavity and Shadow and Act, about tackling their characters and how they grew into complex superheroes. Celeste O’Connor, who plays Mattie Franklin, said that she felt like her character had to challenge […]
Nat Geo’s Genius: MLK/X explores not only the legacies of two of the world’s most prominent leaders– but also their home life, through the lens of their wives, Coretta Scott King and Dr. Betty Shabazz. The two never lived in the shadows of their husbands and were just as much of a force to the […]
Towns attended his first two years at Harvard University, where he was Ivy League Player of the Year and AP All-America honorable mention, according to The Grio. The forward suffered knee and back injuries that hindered his performance as an athlete. Towns obtained his undergraduate degree before pursuing a master’s at Ohio State. At the […]
It wasn’t that long ago that the WNBA finals had this country in a chokehold. Here in Brooklyn, NY, where I reside, we watched with bated breath. We hoped to the heavens that the Liberty would send the Las Vegas Aces back on a red-eye flight ringless. But that wasn’t the case, and we ended […]
The fights in Percy Jackson and the Olympians are some that Aryan Simahdri and Walker Scobell can’t wait for fans to see. Simahdri and Scobell told Blavity’s Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum what it was like getting prepared for the fight scenes in the series. Simhadri, who plays Grover Underwood, said he did […]
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One of the year’s best series, Showtime’s Fellow Travelers, concluded in spectacular fashion this month– just the way it landed. Led by Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, and based on the novel of the same name, the series revolves around a group of characters through different decades–“the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled […]
The cast of Poor Things talks about what it’s like to be in a film that pushes boundaries in a world that seems intent on going backward. Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum and film/TV columnist Sharronda Williams spoke to Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef and learned more about the […]
Showtime has announced a premiere date and dropped a trailer for its upcoming thriller miniseries, The Woman In The Wall. Created and written by BAFTA Award nominee Joe Murtagh, the series stars and is executive produced by Ruth Wilson and co-stars BAFTA Award nominee Daryl McCormack. “The Woman In The Wall centers on Lorna Brady (Wilson), […]
Tyler Perry is sounding off on how he felt the bidding process for BET went down. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (via The Hollywood Reporter) Perry said during a Bloomberg Equality Summit in Atlanta that he was “disappointed” in how Paramount Global handled the potential sell of BET, including the original channel, BET+, BET Studios […]