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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Mary J. Blige perform
June 9, 2022
I love The Roots Picnic, the vaunted Philadelphia homegrown music festival founded and put on by the legendary Roots crew
June 9, 2022
When Kendrick Lamar, aka Oklama, announced via social media that he had a new album dropping in May, well, the…
Actors Nia Long and Larenz Tate in "Love Jones"
June 6, 2022
It’s June in Black America, which means that it’s also Black Music Month, aka African-American Music Appreciation Month.
June 1, 2022
I can’t quite call "Gully" a good movie. In fact, I’m not entirely sure that I can even tell you…
Actors Lexi Underwood and Chosen Jacobs in "Sneakerella"
May 27, 2022
When the pandemic started, retail therapy kicked in for many people, and a lot of it moved in the direction…
May 18, 2022
The first thing that drew me into watching Her Only Choice was the number of people of note starring in…
May 11, 2022
OPINION: The 2017 film starring Azealia Banks had a scene that made me hide my head under my pillow—it is…
May 9, 2022
It’s the time when an artist who arts harder than others drops some new work that will be dissected, disputed,…
May 8, 2022
My kids have iPads, and obviously, we monitor the things they watch and the games they play.
May 4, 2022
I love the movie "Belly." So much of it is bad that it actually ends up being amazing and entirely…
Waldo, Family Matters, 90s black tv shows, thegrio
April 29, 2022
Back in the day, when I was young (I’m not a kid anymore), I used to live for the ABC…
April 26, 2022
I used to joke that "Brown Sugar" should have been titled "Love & Basketball 2: When They Put Down Basketballs…
"Freshman Year" (Screenshot, YouTube)
April 20, 2022
"Freshman Year," the 2019 faith-and-family film, is about two smart kids facing trials and tribulations and going on a life journey…
April 13, 2022
I recently watched Pastor Shirley—check it out on April 16 and April 30 on TheGrio TV and TheGrio app—and I…
April 7, 2022
As a general rule, if Clifton Powell is in a movie, there’s a better than 99 percent chance that I…
April 4, 2022
I’ve said many times over the past year that Jazmine Sullivan’s "Heaux Tales" is easily one of the best albums…
March 31, 2022
I’ve been a fan of Little Brother—the rap group made up of Phonté, Big Pooh and 9th Wonder—since the first…
94th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals
March 29, 2022
As with any important event that happens in the Black community, I’ve learned to wait a day and watch the…
March 24, 2022
There’s a lot of good television out there in the world to watch these days. It can almost be overwhelming…
March 22, 2022
One of the worst decisions you can ever make as a parent is introducing your children to McDonald’s chicken nuggets.