The Michael Jackson movie leaves out plenty about Jackson's life, but audiences don’t seem to mind, @jemelehill.bsky.social argues. She examines why “Michael” has been a hit, despite the controversy about its omissions:

I watched Clue yesterday #nfotd

Happy 35th anniversary to What About Bob?

Aleshea Harris Made 'Is God Is' For Herself www.marieclaire.com/culture/movi...

Lisa Ann Walter Dishes It Out www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/a...

AP News Lays Off 20 US-Based Journalists in Pivot Away From Print www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

‘Is God Is’ writer-director Aleshea Harris talks making the transition from stage to screen, why making a revenge movie was necessary right now, and the influence her family lineage has on her craft.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

The EUPHORIA cast have become global megastars. The show, says Imogen West-Knights, has not kept up. Season three is garish emptiness where there used to be garish abundance:

deadline.com/2026/05/sam-... I guess

deadline.com/2026/05/colm... Colman Domingo, Nicholas Hoult, Noah Jupe & Emma Corrin To Star In Subversive Thriller ‘The Servant’ For Francis Lee, Mk2, Blueprint & Film4 — Cannes Market Hot Project

BET to Develop and Produce Microdramas With aTwist, Formatted for Multiple Platforms www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Jamie Foxx and girlfriend Alyce Huckstepp are expecting a baby, the actor's third www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Library of Congress Adds Beyoncé, Chaka Khan, Ray Charles And More To 2026 National Recording Registry www.essence.com/culture/nati...

🫠 www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

It’s such a joy to hear the birds singing in the morning.

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Gen Z homeowners now outpace millennials at the same age. They're more likely to be single and less likely to use help from parents. n.pr/3PFyaMo

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign? A dive into the ‘clipping’ underworld.

deadline.com/2026/05/jodi... Jodie Comer To Headline HBO Limited Series ‘The Chain’ From Damon Lindelof

deadline.com/2026/05/dacr... Dacre Montgomery Joins Donnie Yen & Rina Sawayama In ‘John Wick’ Spinoff ‘Caine’

deadline.com/2026/05/will... Will Smith To Star As FBI Agent In Action-Thriller ‘Supermax’ With Filming Lined Up For Summer; Amazon Takes WW Rights From Miramax In Big Deal

www.curbed.com/article/nyc-... Awesome.

The Grand Tradition of Suing for School Tuition The city spends over a billion a year on special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white parents. nymag.com/intelligence...

www.thenation.com/article/soci... The Dismantling of Black Studies

www.thenation.com/article/soci... The Uncommon Bravery of Jason Collins

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lol she's so delightfully awkward www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Traditional Soaps May Be Waning, but Our Stories Are Sudsier Than Ever www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

IS GOD IS: A Cathartic and Brutal Exploration of Black Girl Rage (Review) nerdist.com/article/is-g...

‘The A List’ Review: The Diaspora, Described www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/m...

We need to talk about the existence, or lack thereof, of Michael Mann’s Heat in Courtney A. Kemp and Tani Marole’s new Netflix drama, Nemesis.

A fantastic album

deadline.com/2026/05/hals... Halsey To Star In & Co-Write Psycho-Sexual Horror ‘Replacer’ With Avan Jogia Directing & Lilly Wachowski Exec Producing — Cannes Market

Just finished watching Fried Green Tomatoes #nfotd

Omg all of this sounds terrible.

The 28-year-old daughter of the late Michael Jackson has been locked in a tense legal battle with the executors of the Jackson estate.

Inspired by the podcast The Retrievals, the story follows one woman’s crusade against Yale Fertility Center after she (and almost 100 other women) were operated on without anesthesia during IVF egg retrieval procedures — because a nurse stole their fentanyl. deadline.com/2026/05/netf...

playbill.com/article/meg-... Wow. This is huge for her.

playbill.com/article/gram... Grammy Winner Ledisi to Star in Wanted on Broadway

www.salon.com/2026/05/13/h... How “The View” could put an end to Trump’s war on the media

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/... Wut

Taraji P. Henson Tells It Like It Is The actress is having a ball in her Broadway debut, but she still has some bones to pick with Hollywood. www.vulture.com/article/tara...

‘Grown Ups 3’ in the Works at Netflix With Adam Sandler www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Kevin Hart's Company Fired Two Black Podcast Producers, Shelved All Their Work, Then Sued Them for Leaving www.essence.com/news/money-c...

‘Paranormal Activity’ to Haunt Broadway This Summer www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

How Naomi Ackie Learned to Act Without Fear www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/t...