Lena Waithe
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Teyana Taylor went into A Thousand and One with something to prove: 'I feel like this was written for me'
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All the big surprise cameos in the House Party reboot
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The best TV shows on Amazon Prime Video right now
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Women who made television history
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The best TV shows on Netflix right now
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The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder creators on making a 'state-of-the-art family TV show'
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Master of None star Naomi Ackie talks about that 'ambiguous' season 3 finale
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Watch EW's Pride cover stars ask each other their burning questions
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See all the photos from EW's 2021 Pride Issue cover shoots
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Lena Waithe is cementing her place as a Hollywood power player: 'Like it or not, I'm not going anywhere'
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Master of None to focus on Denise's marriage in its return on May 23
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What's coming to Netflix in May: Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead and more Lucifer
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Without Remorse's Jodie Turner-Smith on becoming Hollywood's most exciting new action star
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5 movies that inspired Amazon's new horror show Them
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Them trailer teases supernatural and real-world terrors in racially charged horror show
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Watch the teaser for new Amazon horror show Them
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Will Smith to host Netflix docuseries Amend, about the Fourteenth Amendment
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Just four creators are tied to nearly a fifth of all LGBTQ representation on TV
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Roku acquires former Quibi series from Chrissy Teigen, Idris Elba, more
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27 of TV's best Thanksgiving episodes
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Big Mouth season 4 heads to summer camp: Watch the first trailer
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Radha Blank on turning her Netflix film The Forty-Year-Old Version into a TV show: 'Hell f---ing no'
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, and more will do their own Golden Girls rendition for Zoom special
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Netflix drops painfully funny trailer for Sundance sensation The Forty-Year-Old Version
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Your guide to all the summer 2020 TV premiere dates
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Hundreds of Black artists sign letter calling for change in Hollywood: 'We demand better'
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EW's Untold Stories: Pride Edition podcast celebrates drag and ballroom heroes
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How GLAAD is changing Hollywood's LGBTQ narrative — one script at a time
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Lady Gaga, BTS, and more join the Obamas for virtual 2020 graduation ceremonies
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Kiley Reid has written the most provocative page-turner of the year
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Pixar's new Onward trailer shows off Octavia Spencer's 'fearless' Manticore
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Watch the trailer for Lena Waithe's new BET show Twenties
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Frozen 2 makes competition shiver at the box office with record-breaking $124 million
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Queen & Slim is an old-fashioned road picture set in a brutally modern America: Review
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Chrissy Teigen, Kate McKinnon, more stars go on global eating tour in new Netflix food series
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Daniel Kaluuya is in love and on the run in powerful new Queen & Slim trailer
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The TV It List: 10 storytellers revolutionizing the small screen
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Daniel Kaluuya finds the Bonnie to his Clyde in Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas' Queen & Slim trailer
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James Corden and Michelle Obama throw an epic celebrity dodgeball match
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Lena Waithe regrets the way she handled Jason Mitchell allegations: 'I wish I would've done more'
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Halle Berry gives Lena Waithe a big fat kiss for Jimmy Kimmel Live guest hosting
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The Chi showrunner hopes season 2 will 'humanize this journey for black men in Chicago'
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RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 trailer teases cuts, cookies, and huge celebs
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Halle Berry teases cameo on BET's new Boomerang series
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How Lena Waithe and Halle Berry ended up rebooting Eddie Murphy's 1992 movie Boomerang
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Lena Waithe explains why there's nothing Donald Glover can't tackle
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Netflix stars recreate 'A Great Day in Harlem' photo for 'Strong Black Lead' promo
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Lena Waithe receiving Trailblazer honor at 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards
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Cardi B, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Kidman among Time's 100 Most Influential People
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Watch Lena Waithe accept her GLAAD Award with empowering speech: 'We need to be united'
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Ready Player One's Lena Waithe on retro culture and playing a digital giant who is 'Mr. T meets Rambo'
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This Is Us casts Emmy winner Lena Waithe for guest role
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Lena Waithe's The Chi trailer brings 'positive as f--k' vibes to Showtime
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Master of None's Lena Waithe isn't done making history
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Lena Waithe's new series The Chi drops trailer with Moonlight, Detroit stars
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Master of None star Lena Waithe makes history with Emmys writing win
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Showtime orders Jay Pharoah, Jamie Foxx's White Famous to series
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Master of None cast reveal character similarities
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Lena Waithe to adapt web series 'Twenties' into pilot for BET