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DC Studios has spent hundreds of millions on its biggest superhero movies. 'Clayface' is going a different route, and Naomi Ackie thinks that’s to its advantage.

Tia Glover has a platform as one of the newer faces on 'The Real Housewives of Potomac,' but she’s quick to point out that being on television doesn’t mean the real estate deals come easy.

The events behind The Social Reckoning happened only five years ago, but the conversation around Big Tech may have already moved on to something bigger.

Olivia Miles has signed with adidas Basketball, capping a rookie season that has turned the Minnesota Lynx guard into one of the most marketable young players in the WNBA.

Unrivaled has a new uniform partner heading into its third season. The deal comes a month after Unrivaled closed an oversubscribed Series C round of more than $100 million, led by Ten Pillars Sports Fund.

Slater Vance, son of actress Angela Bassett, has revived the Black student theater group his mother founded at Yale University in 1979.

Reed sat down with AfroTech Culture to talk about the day he learned his role was being eliminated, why he's been transparent about unemployment when so many people aren't, and what it actually means to pivot in 2026.

Anthony Edwards is expanding his adidas partnership into a sketch comedy series. "They always said your commercials are like TV shows, so I went and made one," he said.

MACRO, the entertainment company from Charles D. King, has acquired the Black-centric streamer, Allblk, from AMC Global Media.

'By Any Means' moves Elegance Bratton into different territory: a Paramount studio release with the budget, crew size and star power of a major production behind it.

Jonathan Daviss and Carlacia Grant are two of the Black actors at the center of Netflix’s Outer Banks , and both are using the show’s final season to talk about what five years on set taught them about building a career, not just booking a role. Every project is a classroom Daviss, who plays Pope Heyward, told AFROTECH™ Culture he treats every project as a classroom. “I compare it to college in a way, it was just a teaching experience,” he said. “I was learning how to be on set, learning how to come to work prepared, learning how to expand my range as an actor, learning the things I was good at, learning the things I, more importantly, wasn’t good at and could get better at.” That’s the standard he said he now holds every new project to. “I think that’s what I want with every project, I want everybody, every project I go on, I want to learn something new,” he said. “I want to feel like I’m expanding myself. I want to feel like I’m coming to set a student. That’s been my biggest...

Trinity Tatum has landed her first major brand partnership since winning 'Love Island USA,' which is on the heels of her signing with WME.

MACRO and Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund debuted work from the inaugural class of The Epigraph Creator Fellowship on July 30 at MACRO Foundation’s Summernight event in Los Angeles . The program pairs culturally grounded creators with AI production tools. Announced in April 2026, it ran eight weeks and gave fellows direct access to platforms from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Gamma, Promise Studios, Descript, Coactive and Curious Refuge, along with instruction on integrating each tool into their filmmaking process, the release states. Summernight served as the program’s public showcase. The inaugural class includes Bianca Lambert, Chazitear Martin, John Burr, Justice Whitaker, Nick Barili, Sulayman Tahir and Tedra Wilson. Their projects have been featured in and recognized by the Tribeca Festival, the American Black Film Festival, Slamdance and the Essence Film Festival. What the organizers said In a statement, MACRO Chief Brand Officer Stacey Walker King said, “Storytellers...

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has taken his television production company international. Through his G- Unit Film & Television banner , Jackson executive produced Fightland , an eight-episode boxing crime drama shot entirely in London , marking the first time G-Unit has produced a series outside the United States. Fightland is Starz’s first wholly owned original series since the network’s split from Lionsgate. What Is ‘Fightland’ about? The series follows Maduka “Duke” Kilroy, a disgraced, formerly incarcerated heavyweight boxing champion who returns to London after his brother is murdered. Duke serves eight years in a U.S. prison before coming home to seek vengeance against the crime family, led by former promoter Kingsley Marshall, he believes betrayed him. Howard Charles ( Top Boy , Whitstable Pearl ) stars as Duke, leading a cast that includes Nicholas Pinnock, Deborah Ayorinde, Charles Babalola, Tahirah Sharif, and Tyler Conti. The series was created by Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and...

Just one year after launching Glizzy Street with a single bacon-wrapped hot dog cart and a $400 investment, 16-year-old twin brothers Chazz and Chaze Clemons are already thinking about what’s next. The Long Beach entrepreneurs, whose business has amassed more than 450,000 social media followers by documenting their journey, recently celebrated Glizzy Street’s first anniversary with a community giveaway in partnership with Raising Cane’s and the City of Long Beach. But for the brothers, the milestone isn’t just about looking back on their first year in business; it’s also about preparing for the next phase of growth. “We want to actually scale, expand the team,” Chaze Clemons said. Chazz Clemons said the business spent its first year learning the fundamentals. Photo Credit: Courtesy Photo Provided “Year 1 was just about learning the business, how to cook the hot dog, building the SOPs,” he said. “But year two is taking it further, start scaling. We want to be all over California and...