Candice Frederick

The actress dove into "a very nuanced story that included a lot of historical and cultural misogyny."

Two months into the worldwide lockdown, KiKi Layne sounds warm and upbeat over the phone. She says we just happened to catch her on a good day. “Some days I’m fine,” she says. “Other days I’m like, What is going on? I just take it day by day.”
She brings this same mix of vulnerability and strength to her performance in The Old Guard, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. The adaptation of the graphic novel premiered July 10 on Netflix and is currently perched at the number 1 on the streaming gia...

The actress and star of Katori Hall's Starz drama on her dance roots and forming a sisterhood on set.

Working with a team of women, the playwright tells a humanizing story through the female gaze.

The 'Palm Springs' star on loneliness in quarantine and the upside of time loops.

The 'Search Party' star on Cassidy's motivation, her 'commitment to the upside,' and embracing her own celebrity.

On paper, 16-year-old actress Lexi Underwood and her Little Fires Everywhere character Pearl Warrenhave little in common. For one, Underwood hails from Washington, D.C. and now resides in Los Angeles; meanwhile, Pearl has moved around so many times in her young life that she has no actual roots anywhere. She is also raised by a single mother, the bohemian artist Mia (played by Kerry Washington), and Underwood is not.
But the actress, who created a Venn diagram to delve deeper into her charact...

With one catastrophe rapidly replacing another one in our daily dialogue right now, it might be difficult to remember that — along with everything else — we are grappling with a major immigration crisis. Netflix aims to catapult that issue back to the top of our conversations with the urgently themed yet middling drama, Stateless.
Inspired by myriad real-life stories — including the high-profile story of Cornelia Rau — about the mistreatment of asylum seekers in an Australian detention center...

For many African Americans, bad news is part of our daily routine—from the rampant police violence against Black and Brown people to the lives lost by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted those same communities.
Things have gotten so intolerable that we’re putting our health on the line every night to demand justice in the streets, bringing attention to some of those same atrocities, and traumatizing ourselves all over again. On top of that, we’re being asked to hel...

With so much going on in the world today — from the COVID-19 pandemic to the violence against Black and queer people — it can be difficult to process it all. That’s certainly true for Love, Victor star Rachel Hilson, who oscillates from feeling inspired by the global calls for justice, to total despair. The actress has taken a self-reflective approach to dealing with this moment in history, including quiet acts of kindness and empathy.
Anytime you take a moment for yourself — whether it be to...

You will walk away from director Bao Nguyen’s documentary on Bruce Lee frustrated about both the actor and martial artist icon’s life and untimely death. Decades after the 1993 biopic , chronicles Lee’s life and career in his own words, highlighting a journey plagued by a racist Hollywood that only vindicated him posthumously. The film begins with Lee confidently showing off his skills during a screen test and recounts how he came to America with a dream and just $100 that his father gave him...

After ten tough years of navigating the Hollywood system and 17 screen credits—including Top Boy and Bad Education—under her belt, Weruche Opia has finally landed her first internationally acclaimed series with I May Destroy You. But it premiered in the midst of the #BlackLivesMatter global reckoning, a fact that has made Opia’s recent success bittersweet.
“It is lonely right now, being happy about this show that centers Black women going through these life issues,” Opia confesses. “I am hear...

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A year ago, Nicole Beharie never imagined that “Miss Juneteenth,” a small family drama celebrating African-American beauty and freedom, would be released just as another historic moment was unfolding. In fact, she hadn’t really considered Juneteenth — which honors the day the Emancipation Proclamation was read to slaves in Texas — at all before starring in the film. “I knew about the holiday, but I wasn’t celebrating it,” she admitted.

Soon after landing on Netflix on June 1, the 2011 drama The Help made the streaming service's Top 10 chart.
The Help's Netflix popularity has reignited a debate about the importance of films that confront racism head on—without trying to make white viewers feel comfortable.
Here, writer Candice Frederick explores how The Help raises awareness about racism—while not challenging the present-day status quo.
As the country galvanizes to support the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the d...

When I first noticed that there were non-black faces in the myriad protests demanding justice for the police murder of George Floyd across the world over the last few days, I thought: it’s nice to see that oppressed black people aren’t the only ones speaking out about the oppression of black people. Because generally that’s been the case. But that feeling of relief dissolved after big organizations such as the NFL and The CW, as well as stars like Lea Michele, jumped on that bandwagon to alig...