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Sarah Drew’s return to Grey’s Anatomy is officially underway as the actress, who starred as the overly eager Dr. April Kepner, shared a on-set selfie with onscreen ex-husband Jesse Williams. “Nbd. Not excited at all,” Drew cheekily captioned her Instagram photo, which sees the two Grey’s actors donning masks in a van…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set Winston Duke (Black Panther) to star as Marcus Garvey in Marked Man. Garvey was a political activist who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. Andrew Dosunmu will direct the drama, and Jesse Williams (Little Fires Everywhere) and DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It)…

It's the most famous symbolic protest in all of sport, and one of the most potent in American history. In October 1968, U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith took the podium after winning the gold medal in the 200-meter dash at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. As the national anthem began to play, Smith and his teammate…

Tommie Smith, who won the Gold Medal and broke the world record in the 200-meter race in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and promptly got banished by the USOC and rendered a pariah for raising a gloved fist during the National Anthem to protest racism, is poised to get more of the reconsideration he deserves. With Dra…

Producers of Broadway’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have set an opening date of April 22, 2021, with previews beginning March 22. The Second Stage Theater staging of the Richard Greenberg play is the latest production targeting a Spring opening after being interrupted…

Selah and the Spades, a new teen film Amazon Studios picked up at the 2019 Sundance Film Fesitval, where it was well-received, is the perfect movie for the Trump era in that it is all about a lot of self-possessed high school teens in an elite Eastern boarding school who carve themselves up into factions dividing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy‘s Jesse Williams is set for a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu's upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book. Developed and written by Casual's Liz Tigelaar, the series hails…

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Jackson Avery is sticking around Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams has inked a new two-contract to continue on the hit ABC medical drama. Williams was the only major Grey’s Anatomy cast member without a deal beyond this season when ABC in May gave the series a record-b…

Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson has joined the cast of the Broadway-bound Take Me Out, the Richard Greenberg play being revived next spring with director Scott Ellis and starring the previously announced Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy). The Second Stage Theater production will begin previews April 2, 2020, at the…

First-time feature director Tayarisha Poe made her Sundance debut with boarding school drama Selah and the Spades, a film that for Poe, hits close to home. “I went boarding school in Central Jersey and I loved it. It was a really formative experience for me. I think it was because of the independence that we had and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Williams, one of the stars of ABC’s long-running series, Grey’s Anatomy, is marking his feature directorial debut with Till, a film centered around Mamie Mobley Till, the mother of Emmett Louis Till, a Black teen who was lynched after being accused flirting with a white woman in the Jim Crow-era…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams and The Fast and the Furious star Jordana Brewster have signed up to star in Jay Baruchel's Random Acts of Violence. Man Seeking Woman and This Is The End star Baruchel has writes and directs the road-trip horror feature and also will star. Baruchel, who wrote Seann William…