Leiomy Maldonado joins Megan Thee Stallion, Jameela Jamil, and Law Roach on HBO’s new competition show — Leiomy Maldonado made history more than 10 years ago as the first trans woman to compete on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. …

The icon paved the way for generations, even if he wasn’t as hands-on as some of us wished — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. “It’s tough being a big Black man in the world,” André Leon Talley told me in 2017. It was the day after a documentary about the fashion icon, The Gospel According…

The new show will be the first on the network to be led by a queer person — Growing up, Carmen Phillips didn’t know that Black people could also be LGBTQ+. …

The writer-director is unapologetic about telling Black love stories — Stella Meghie loves Black people. From the way she writes fully realized characters to her interest in showing us just loving on each other in every film she creates, the proof is in the pudding. There’s her debut, 2016’s Jean of the Joneses, in which Taylour Paige plays the daughter…