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Paradise

A security service team gets assigned to safeguard a former president.

TVMA • Drama, Action • TV Series (2025)

Reasonable Doubt

You'll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law…until you're the one in trouble. Then you'll see her for what she is: the most brilliant and fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks the justice system at every chance she gets.

TVMA • Drama, Legal • TV Series (2022)

The Quincy Avery Effect

A game-changing story of grit and victory. From 1,000 nights of homelessness to coaching NFL’s top Quarterbacks, Quincy Avery continues to break barriers, unlocking the full potential of athletes and reshaping the future of the game.

TV14 • Sports, Black Stories • Movie (2025)

Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers

In this stand-up special, Roy Wood Jr explores how lack of connection has sent society spiraling into a culture full of guns, rude employees, self-checkout lanes, and why some of us would rather be alone rather than be connected.

TVMA • Stand Up Comedy, Comedy • Movie (2025)

Living Single

Four upwardly mobile and very different African American women share adventures, advice and an exclusive brownstone in New York City as they explore life and Living Single. Khadijah James has it all: a great job running her own trendy magazine and part ownership of a fancy brownstone. Sharing the ownership of their home is her endearingly naïve cousin Synclaire, who's also Khadijah's assistant at the magazine. Cramping their lifestyle is their third roommate, the sarcastic fortune-hunter Regine. And even though she doesn't live in the brownstone, Khadijah's best friend Maxine, a tough divorce attorney always searching for Mr. Right, spends more time there than she does in her own home.

TV14 • Black Stories, Classics • TV Series (1993)

A Thousand Blows

Hezekiah and Alec, two best friends from Jamaica, fight for survival in the violent melting pot of Victorian London's East End; they come up against Sugar Goodson, a dangerous, veteran boxer.

TVMA • International, Drama • TV Series (2025)

My Wife and Kids

Michael Kyle is a modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique parenting style. He teaches his children life lessons with his own brand of humorous wisdom. Janet, Michael's wife, maintains a fine balance between taking care of their home, building her career and trading punchlines with her husband. Their three children are high-school student Michael Jr. who is a regular recipient of his father's witty, disciplinary ways; their moody, adolescent daughter, Claire whose favorite hobby is asking Dad for money, and six-year-old Kady, who rarely lets Daddy have the last word.

TVPG • Black Stories, Family • TV Series (2001)

Memes & Nightmares

Memes & Nightmares is a hilarious and insightful satirical film that dives into the vibrant world of NBA Twitter. Guided by the witty and iconic social-media personality Josiah Johnson (aka King Josiah) and his equally hilarious co-star Jamel Johnson (no relation!), the film weaves a dark, satirical buddy-cop mystery as “the Brothers Johnson” unravel the culture of memes, viral moments, and digital fandom that have turned basketball into a 24/7 cultural phenomenon. Packed with humor, unforgettable stories, unexpected guests, and the absurd brilliance of internet culture, Memes and Nightmares reveals how social media has forever transformed the way the NBA is experienced and celebrated. Whether you’re a die-hard NBA fan, a lover of memes, or someone who thrives on the chaos and creativity of the internet, this film offers a unique look at the intersection of sports and digital culture.

TVMA • Documentaries, Satire • Movie (2025)

New York Undercover

New York police Detectives J.C. Williams, a recently divorced cop trying to be a good father to his son, and Eddie Torres, a young Puerto Rican who struggles with his heritage, try to balance their stressful work duties with their own personal demands. Their boss, Lt. Virginia Cooper, is tough but fair in her assignments.

TV14 • Drama, Crime • TV Series (1994)

Black Twitter: A People's History

Based on Jason Parham’s WIRED article “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” this three-part docuseries charts the rise, the movements, the voices and the memes that made Black Twitter an influential and dominant force in nearly every aspect of American political and cultural life.

TVMA • Documentaries • TV Series (2024)

The Steve Harvey Show

Comedian Steve Harvey stars as Steve Hightower, a professional musician who accepts a teaching position at a tough urban high school.

TVPG • Comedy, Sitcom • TV Series (1996)

Snowfall

A young street entrepreneur, a Mexican wrestler, a CIA operative, a drug-running couple and other characters are set on a violent collision course during the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.

TVMA • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2017)

Waiting to Exhale

Four young Phoenix women lean on each other for support while dealing with their share of bad relationships.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (1995)

227

Marla Gibbs stars as a sharp-witted housewife who finds herself mixed up in the lives of her eccentric fellow tenants in her apartment complex.

TVG • Black Stories, Sitcom • TV Series (1985)

Family Matters

What matters most? Family, of course! Over its nine hit seasons, Family Matters brings us a hilarious slice of middle-class Americana -- along with one of TV's wackiest characters, nerdy genius Steve Urkel. The extended Winslow family redefines the word "togetherness" as their home splits at the seams with chaos, confusion and laughter.

TVG • Family, Black Stories • TV Series (1989)

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

EMMY® NOMINATED Wu-Tang: An American Saga is inspired by “The Wu-Tang Manual” and “Tao of Wu”, and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan’s formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

TVMA • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2019)

SLY LIVES!

Oscar-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson directs his sophomore feature documentary follow-up to “Summer of Soul.” SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) examines the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone, the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone. This film captures the rise, reign and subsequent fadeout of one of pop music’s most influential artists, but also shines a light on how Black artists in America navigate the unseen burden that comes with their success. Drawing from his own personal experience and relationships, Questlove tells an empathetic human story about the cost of genius, reframing the way we all engage with pop culture.

TVMA • Documentaries, Music • Movie (2025)

The Bernie Mac Show

In an unsentimental sitcom based on his life, comedian Bernie Mac plays a stand-Up comic who, with his workaholic wife Wanda, takes in his sister's three kids while she's in rehab.

TVPG • Black Stories, Family • TV Series (2001)

The Honorable Shyne

The Honorable Shyne tells the remarkable story of Moses “Shyne” Barrow, the Grammy Award-winning musician turned politician. A rising star in the late 1990s, Shyne’s promising rap career was cut short after being charged in a high-profile New York nightclub shooting, along with rap impresario Sean “Puffy” Combs. Shyne was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to ten years in prison, while Combs was acquitted. After prison, Shyne reemerged in his native Belize, where he transitioned from music to politics, ultimately becoming the Leader of Opposition Party. His journey is one of redemption, resilience, and transformation. This documentary provides an intimate look at Shyne’s personal evolution as he navigates fame, incarceration and a return home to Belize, where he finds new purpose and strives to lead his country to a brighter future.

TVMA • Black Stories, Music • Movie (2024)

Black-ish

“black-ish” takes a fun yet bold look at one man’s determination to establish a sense of cultural identity for his family with comedic stories that shine a light on current events through the lens of the Johnson family.

TVPG • Black Stories, Family • TV Series (2014)

Black Cake

Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her children a flash drive that holds untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America; the stories shock her children and challenge everything they know about their family's origin.

TVMA • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2023)

The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat

Lifelong best friends Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean ― “The Supremes” ― share an unbreakable bond from decades of weathering life’s storms. Now, through new shades of heartbreak, the trio are put to test as they face their most challenging times yet.

PG-13 • Drama, Comedy • Movie (2024)

Everybody Hates Chris

Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980's.

TVPG • Family, Black Stories • TV Series (2005)

Empire

From Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels (“Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Precious”) and Emmy Award winner Danny Strong (“Game Change,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”), comes EMPIRE, a sexy and powerful new drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and wife all battle for his throne. Set to an original soundtrack written and produced by hip-hop hitmaker Timbaland, the family drama stars Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (“Crash,” “Hustle & Flow”) and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson (“Person of Interest,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”).

TV14 • Black Stories, Drama • TV Series (2015)

The Great Debaters

Professor Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington), a brilliant but volatile debate team coach, uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the deep south into a historically elite debate team.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2007)