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

Claressa Shields has built a career defined by dominance in the ring and business success outside of it. She also made history, but first, it is important to note what got her here.

'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.

It's been two years since the Houston rapper dropped "Don Who Leo," in which she admits to sipping Don Julio for a night out of fun. Now, she's cashing in on those lyrics thanks to a new partnership with the tequila brand.

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...

Taking a deeper dive into the book-to-film adaptation world amid the drama surrounding Tomi Adeyemi's 'Children of Blood and Bone.

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...

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