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https://blackgirlnerds.com/regina-hall-zoe-renee-and-director-mariama-diallo-dive-in-on-the-horror-thriller-master/

BGN interviews Regina Hall (Gail Bishop), Zoe Renee (Jasmine Moore), Mariama Diallo (Director) for the Prime Video release thriller Master.

In writer-director Mariama Diallo’s debut feature, Master, three women strive to find their place at a prestigious New England university whose frosty elitism may disguise something more sinister. Professor Gail Bishop (Regina Hall) has recently been promoted to “Master” of a residence hall, the first time at storied Ancaster College that a Black woman has held the post. Determined to breathe new life into a centuries-old tradition, Gail soon finds herself wrapped up in the trials and tribulations of Jasmine Moore (Zoe Renee), an energetic and optimistic Black freshman.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf

Video Editor: Jamie Broadnax

Master premieres March 18th on Prime Video.

https://blackgirlnerds.com/the-shade-rooms-angelica-nwandu-uses-her-faith-to-build-her-brand/

One of the funniest, engaging, and newsworthy Instagram media accounts to follow is none other than The Shade Room.  The media company has become a trailblazer in the Black community for breaking all kinds of news in the pop culture spectrum.  From music, TV, film, sports, beauty, fashion, and more, The Shade Room offers a dose of daily entertainment straight to your feed. As of this writing, The Shade Room has nearly 26 million followers and counting and has had quite the journey from its launch in 2014 from its founder Angelica “Angie” Nwandu.  In January, Nwandu chatted with BGN via phone to talk about her multi-media company and how her faith shaped her vision for the company.

One thing Nwandu is most proud of with TSR is its captivating community of followers. Nwandu says, “I feel like they are the heartbeat of The Shade Room. When people come up to me, they say the comments are everything.” However, for Nwandu, the messages that TSR sends out are important. It’s not lost on her that controversial news is distributed on TSR that negatively reflects Black entertainers.

“You look in the comments and you see people growing, and learning from the conversation. I see a community talking together, holding people accountable. They move the conversation forward. I begin to look at [the controversy] differently,” Nwandu remarks. 

While Nwandu’s platform does offer a place for tea-sippers to kiki at the latest celebrity scandal in the comments, there’s also a faith-based arm of TSR aptly titled The Same Room. The IG account is described as a place where faith meets culture. In a 2021 interview with Ebony, Nwandu stated that she got a vision from God about The Shade Room after having a major setback of dealing with the account being removed twice. During our call, Nwandu was on a 22-day fast where she refrained from meals from 6am – 6pm. The entrepreneur described it as one of the hardest things she’s ever done.  Nwandu candidly says, “Nobody fasts when your life is going well.  Usually, when people fast, they need to hear from God.” 

She further elaborated on what happened in 2017 and that she was suffering from depression.  She did have a vision, but no blueprint on what to do about her vision of TSR. She knew that there was something big that was in store for her to create with TSR but was still insecure if it would actually happen. During this season of her life, she wondered would TSR grow into the vision she had imagined?  Would the seed that God planted in her take root?  Then the doubts, the fear, the lies her mind started to tell her about the vision started to fester. Nwandu described the process as a rollercoaster ride.

For Nwandu, who is a praying woman, she learned from 2017 till today that she learned to place her trust in God. To walk with Him, pray and stay close to Him. Through this process, her faith grew strong because although she did receive an offer for a 100K investment from VC Bryce Roberts — in her prayers — God led her to continue this entrepreneurial journey on her own without taking any more investment money. Her process of fasting and prayer put her on a path of clarity of how to run her business and to have confidence in the work she’s doing. 

While the road to success is never easy, and Nwandu is frank about how she uses her faith as a catalyst to continue to build her media empire, she does offer some sound advice for women interested in starting their own media brand. 

“Reflect on yourself and think about what you need in the media space that’s missing. What do you feel like you don’t see in the media? Work and build an idea around that,” she adds. Nwandu understands the power of community and states that people are driven to strong groups.  The social networking digital culture we are in today is proof positive that online communities are the core of creating a thriving business. Nwandu simply advises seeking to fill a void and asking yourself “what do I need?” and working to fulfill that need is the key to building a great media brand. As the founder of the online media publication and community Black Girl Nerds, I couldn’t agree more with her sentiments on this subject.

TSR launched a 6-episode series in partnership with Facebook Watch as part of their We The Culture initiative. We The Culture elevates Black creators to share their vision with the world, spark community, and empower them to build successful, entertaining, and sustainable networks. Over the last year, TSR launched 3 new original series: The Shady Brunch, a cooking competition; Thick House, a plus-size modeling competition celebrating body diversity; and most recently, Love Locked, a first of its kind dating show starring an all-Black cast.

Angelica Nwandu has also had a hand in the film industry, she wrote the film Night Comes On starring Dominique Fishback. The film won the NEXT Innovator Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She’s also attached to the impending Universal Pictures horror-comedy film Juju along with Issa Rae and La La Anthony.

However, for Nwandu she’s ready to expand further.  She’s interested in creating a platform for breaking news in marginalized communities. She recalls, “When the situation happened with Mike Brown and Ahmaud Arbery, the people who held this story in their hands were the huge white media companies because they had access to get on the scene. They also had access to get into the courtroom.”

She wants a community news platform that reports what’s happening in our community. It wouldn’t be surprising at all if she’s running her own news network in the next 10 years. 

You can follow Angelica “Angie” Nwandu on her personal IG @noigangelica 

http://www.afronerd.com/2022/03/farmhand-image-more-on-ryan-cooglers.html

 

Afronerd Radio can now be heard LIVE courtesy of Apple Music/Itunes

Ok, citizens, let's get right black to it!  Listen to a new installment of Afronerd Radio's The Grindhouse, airing each and every Sunday at 6 p.m. eastern on BTalk 100.  The topics du jour this week are as follows:  Dburt, forever working on "cp" time, tripped over an interesting Image comic, Farmhand, which apparently will also receive the cinematic translation treatment; we may discuss a bit more about the problematic "bank robbery suspect" profiling controversy centered around acclaimed filmmaker, Ryan Coogler; Netflix continues to substantiate being the headquarters for anime product with the recent release of Kotaro Lives Alone;  

It always starts with a thought coupled with one's imagination, huh?  A Space.com article highlights the prospect of space travel, the USS Enterprise, and the creation of a warp engine inching toward reality;  oh and then we absolutely must discuss the "fresh off-the-presses" release of Amazon Prime's S3 trailer for The Boys:

  

Captain Carter #1 just hit the comic rack this week; Image is taking another crack at the insect-based heroine (originally created by CB artist, Mario Gully); has President Biden's recent executive order helped legitimize cryptocurrency in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict? more on Milestone Media's new initiative to bolster CB industry access for minority creatives; how exactly did nerd culture survive during the pandemic.....let us discuss.

Oh....will we see the Flash appear in a Marvel movie?  You never know...at least according to Youtuber, ComicCast:

And it's not unprecedented in Marvel/DC canon:

From DC's Doomsday Clock limited series          

And when "Buried Alien" (assumed to be Barry Allen) was lost/thought for dead post Crisis...hmm.

One thing that Dburt is doing (finally) is investing in cryptocurrency, courtesy of Roundlyx. We would implore our followers to investigate, discern and then explore by using our referral code: afro-87A4BF

https://www.thenerdelement.com/2022/03/14/critics-choice-awards-tv-winners/

TELEVISION WINNERS FOR THE 27^TH ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

The 27^th Annual Critics Choice Awards were handed out on Sunday. Succession came into the awards with eight nominations, leading all shows.

It was Ted Lasso that came out with the most wins though, winning for Best Comedy Series, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

Succession had a good night as well, taking home 3 awards for Best Drama Series, Best Supporting Actress for a Drama Series and Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Click HERE for a list of the winners in the film categories

Read on for the full list of winners. Winners indicated in red and bold:

BEST DRAMA SERIES

Evil (Paramount+)

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Pose (FX)

Squid Game (Netflix)

Succession (HBO)

This Is Us (NBC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

Mike Colter – Evil (Paramount+)

Brian Cox – Succession (HBO)

Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game (Netflix)

Billy Porter – Pose (FX)

Jeremy Strong – Succession (HBO)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Uzo Aduba – In Treatment (HBO)

Chiara Aurelia – Cruel Summer (Freeform)

Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Katja Herbers – Evil (Paramount+)

Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets (Showtime)

MJ Rodriguez – Pose (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Nicholas Braun – Succession (HBO)

Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO)

Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)

Matthew Macfadyen – Succession (HBO)

Mandy Patinkin – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Andrea Martin – Evil (Paramount+)

Audra McDonald – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Christine Lahti – Evil (Paramount+)

J. Smith-Cameron – Succession (HBO)

Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO)

Susan Kelechi Watson – This Is Us (NBC)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

The Great (Hulu)

Hacks (HBO Max)

Insecure (HBO)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

The Other Two (HBO Max)

Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Iain Armitage – Young Sheldon (CBS)

Nicholas Hoult – The Great (Hulu)

Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Elle Fanning – The Great (Hulu)

Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)

Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) 

Sandra Oh – The Chair (Netflix)

Issa Rae – Insecure (HBO)

Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Ncuti Gatwa – Sex Education (Netflix)

Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts (CBS)

Ray Romano – Made for Love (HBO Max)

Bowen Yang – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO Max)

Kristin Chenoweth – Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)

Molly Shannon – The Other Two (HBO Max) 

Cecily Strong – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Josie Totah – Saved By the Bell (Peacock)

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

Dopesick (Hulu)

Dr. Death (Peacock)

It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

Maid (Netflix)

Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Midnight Mass (Netflix)

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

WandaVision (Disney+)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Come From Away (Apple TV+)

List of a Lifetime (Lifetime)

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime Video)

Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

Oslo (HBO)

Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (The Roku Channel)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Olly Alexander – It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

Paul Bettany – WandaVision (Disney+)

William Jackson Harper – Love Life (HBO Max)

Joshua Jackson – Dr. Death (Peacock)

Michael Keaton – Dopesick (Hulu)

Hamish Linklater – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

Elizabeth Olsen – WandaVision (Disney+)

Margaret Qualley – Maid (Netflix)

Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus (HBO)

Zach Gilford – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

William Jackson Harper – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

Evan Peters – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Christian Slater – Dr. Death (Peacock)

Courtney B. Vance – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO)

Kaitlyn Dever – Dopesick (Hulu)

Kathryn Hahn – WandaVision (Disney+)

Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu)

Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Jean Smart – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES

Acapulco (Apple TV+)

Call My Agent! (Netflix)

Lupin (Netflix)

Money Heist (Netflix)

Narcos: Mexico (Netflix)

Squid Game (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

Big Mouth (Netflix)

Bluey (Disney Junior)

Bob’s Burgers (Fox)

The Great North (Fox)

Q-Force (Netflix)

What If…? (Disney+)

BEST TALK SHOW

The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)

Desus & Mero (Showtime)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL 

Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix)

Good Timing with Jo Firestone (Peacock)

James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (Vimeo)

Joyelle Nicole Johnson: Love Joy (Peacock)

Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American (Netflix)

Trixie Mattel: One Night Only (YouTube)

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