Matthew Cherry

Blue Ivy Carter wins Best Voiceover at 2021 Voice Arts Awards

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Tina Knowles-Lawson’s ‘Talks With Mama Tina’ set for Facebook Watch premiere

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Blue Ivy narrates audiobook of Matthew Cherry’s ‘Hair Love’

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‘Black-ish’ to air its first-ever animated episode

The exciting first-ever animated episode of the award-winning ABC series Black-ish is set to debut less than 30 days before
/ September 17, 2020

Nickelodeon pulls new show after facing backlash for similarity to ‘Hair Love’

Nickelodeon has decided to pull a new series after facing accusations that the popular children’s network was copying Matthew Cherry’s
/ September 4, 2020

Texas judge blocks dress code that made Black student cut dreadlocks

A federal judge has ruled in favor of two Texas teenagers after the Barbers Hill Independent School District instituted a
/ August 19, 2020
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Ray Fisher says Joss Whedon showed ‘abusive’ behavior on ‘Justice League’ set

Black actor, Ray Fisher, has accused director Joss Whedon of “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” behavior on the set of Justice League.
/ July 2, 2020
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‘Hair Love’ filmmaker signs first look deal with Warner Bros. TV

Matthew Cherry, the director of the Academy Award-winning animated short, Hair Love, has signed a first-look with Warner Bro’s Television Group.
/ June 18, 2020

‘Hair Love’ director starts Twitter campaign celebrating 4-year-old girl

Last week, a heartbreaking video of a Black hairdresser consoling a distraught four-year-old girl after she confessed to hating her
/ March 9, 2020
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High schooler banned from graduation because of dreadlocks invited to Oscars by Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade

Celebrity couple Gabrielle Union and former Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade invited DeAndre Arnold, a Houston-area teen whose high school officials told him he wouldn’t graduate if he did not cut his dreadlocks, to the Oscars.
/ February 2, 2020