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Black booksellers share recommendations for the best books to read during Black History Month—and beyond. These books are great for learning Black history, culture and community.

Prime Videos adaptation of "The Peripheral" is the latest in a series of TV adaptations of books. That list also includes Prime Videos "The Lord of the Ring: The Rings of Power" and HBOs "House of the Dragon." We’ve got details on the hottest books and comics coming to TV and streaming.

DUBAI: Actress Yara Shahidi is getting her own show, “Yara Shahidi’s Day Off,” on Facebook Watch this month. The part-Middle Eastern “Grown-ish” actress stars in and executive produces the platform’s original series. The show is produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment and 7th Sun Productions, which is owned by Shahidi and her mother, Keri Shahidi. In each episode, the

Author Cole Brown speaks to the creative renaissance happening in Addis, Ethiopia, and shares his favorite spots to eat, stay, and explore in the city.

Even before his season was rocked by scandal, Matt James found the experience 'frustrating.' His new memoir, 'First Impressions,' grew out of it.

Cole Brown was waiting out the pandemic in Australia when his friend Matt James, who had found fame and courted controversy on the 25th season of the reality TV show “The Bachelor,” reached out to him about collaborating on a book. James was the first Black bachelor to be selected for the popular series, and […]

DUBAI: Actress Yara Shahidi has announced that she is joining hands with the US-based Ghetto Film School as the organization’s new international thesis advisor. The 21-year-old star of hit TV show “Grown-ish,” who is also a student at Harvard University, will be on hand to guide students who are based in New York, Los Angeles, and London through the educational program. During

DUBAI: Part-Middle Eastern star Yara Shahidi is set to drop a new global collection created in collaboration with sportswear giant Adidas. The “Grown-ish” actress this week posted a teaser of her collaboration on Instagram, and the response to her designer debut is overwhelmingly positive.  “Y’all knew this was coming #collab (sic),” she captioned a video of herself wearing a mustard yellow track jacket with a teal collar worn over a white shirt. “Yessss,” wrote US singer Justin...

DUBAI: US actress Yara Shahidi is developing a new television series via her production company, 7th Sun Productions. The part-Middle Eastern star is set to executive produce and develop an on-screen adaptation of Cole Brown’s critically-acclaimed debut book “Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World,” alongside her mother and business partner Keri Shahidi and Brown for ABC

Yara Shahidi producing upcoming TV series based on Cole Brown’s book Photo credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com Yara Shahidi continues to flex her power behind the Hollywood scenes and will help bring author Cole Brown’s debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World to television. ABC Signature acquired the rights to the book through a competitive bid. Yara and her mother Keri Shahidi will develop the series for TV and executive produce via their 7th Sun Productions, as par...