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Bet Networks has given a series order to Black Card Revoked, a nostalgia-filled game show based on the popular party game that offers a lighthearted test of knowledge of pop culture, entertainment, historical facts and politics from an African American perspective. Actor-comedian Tony Rock has been tapped to host the series, described as a witty celebration of African American life. Production on the 12-episode order will begin this month in Los Angeles for a January 10…...

The cast is slowly coming together for Marvel's Luke Cage series. It includes Simone Missick, who could well be playing Misty Knight...

Marvel and Netflix's Luke Cage series seems a long way off, not least because Jessica Jones - the next team-up between the studio and the streaming service - hasn't even reached our screens yet. However, that hasn't stopped the powers-that-be from releasing some casting information for Luke Cage's show.

The most interesting of these announcements is the addition of Simone Missick - previously seen in Black Card, Everything I Did Wrong In My 20s and A Taste Of Romance - to the cast. According to Marvel, she'll play Missy, "a woman with a strong sense of justice."

Deadline have been quick to report that she's actually playing Misty Knight. This has been echoed on Missick's IMDb page.

A Marvel Comics hero in her own right, Misty is...

Short films dominated the 2015 Blackstar Film Festival. Over 60 short films (expertly programmed into blocks devoted to music, Black boys and men, coming-of-age, experimental, social justice, love stories, fatherhood, satire and films from the diaspora), were screened this year, uniformly of good quality and reflecting facets of the black experience that seldom get expressed in mainstream cinema. Among the best that I saw (I caught 20 films) were "Black Card" by Pete Chatmon; "The Bravest, The Boldest" by Moon Molson; "The Youth" by Dehanza Rogers; "Dream" by Nilja Mu’min and "Swimming In Your Skin Again" by Terence Nance. In...

Thursday, June 11 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, #BlackLifeBlackProtest will showcase seven short films exploring issues of police violence, implicit bias, black identity and human rights, followed by a public dialogue on how content creation can be used as a tool for social change. In anticipation of the event, I spoke with four of the filmmakers in the program about the social significance of their films. Included in the conversation were dream hampton, director of We Demand Justice for Renisha McBride; Pete Chatmon and Dorian Missick of Black Card; and James Lopez, producer of AmeriCAN. Though their films tackle different topics, all of the filmmakers say they felt...