Movie. With a sequel planned for 2019, it’s time to catch up and see Get Out—one of the most critically-acclaimed and audience-loved genre films of the year. Written and directed

by Jordan Peele, Get Out is about a Black man dating a white woman and centers on his first time meeting her parents…but that’s just on the surface. Get Out

has sparked debate, discussion, and even inspired curriculum: My Soul To Keep filmmaker and professor Tananarive Due, who for years has taught Afrofuturism at UCLA, is now teaching a course

titled “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,” based on Get Out. (If you haven’t seen it yet you’ll just have to find out what “The Sunken Place”

is, for yourself!)

Limited Series. This is a six-hour limited series now running on A&E, focusing on the investigation, 20 years after the death of the prolific and influential rapper and actor, Tupac

Shakur. Each episode of this series includes aspects from the legendary artist’s life as well as fellow famed civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump as he conducts a full-scale, intensive investigation

into key theories behind the killing.

Movie. Not one for the kiddos...but if you wanna LOL, grab a bottle of wine and your girls/homies, because you’re in for a wild ride. When four lifelong friends—Regina Hall,

Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish—travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, there’s enough dancing, drinking, scrapping and sex to make the Big Easy blush. Breakout

star Haddish is riding the wave (she has a bestselling book out, too: The Last Black Unicorn).

TV Series. Issa Rae’s webseries Awkward Black Girl was the basis for HBO’s big hit Insecure, and now the creator-star was won a Golden Globe! This is a success story

that’s well-deserved, because it is one of the freshest, funniest, and most stylish comedies in years. Rae told Rolling Stone, “The show is not for dudes. It’s not

for white people. It’s the show that I imagined for my family and friends.” (But guess what? A lot of dudes and white folks are loving it anyway!)

TV Series. Sterling K. Brown plays Randall, who was abandoned as a baby and adopted into a white family. The drama flips back and forth between the past and the

present, and there’s good reason Brown’s won everything from the Emmy to the NAACP Image Award for his textured performance. This Is Us airs weekly on NBC, but if you need

to binge it, it’s on Hulu.