Interviews
The Force MDs: How a Chance Encounter on the Staten Island Ferry Launched a Career
"The Force MDs: How a Chance Encounter on the Staten Island Ferry Launched a Career" is a rare, raw conversation between BIG CED and founding members Kahlil Lundy and Stevie...
Why Black Culture Built the Music Industry
Entertainment attorney Bob Celestin explains how a Yale junior-year course on Black culture, taught by a white professor he describes as “the blackest white man” he’d ever met, transformed his...
From the White House to the Hip Hop Museum | Bryna Jean-Marie on Storytelling, Journalism & Black Culture
BIG CED welcomes longtime friend and media professional Bryna Jean-Marie to discuss her extraordinary journey through journalism, communications, television production, and storytelling. Bryna details how a friend at Howard University...
Inside Tyler Perry Studios: Writer’s Room Secrets, Scriptwriting & Creative Leadership
In this video clip with Bryna Jean-Marie (The Hip Hop Museum), Bryna shares her experience working at Tyler Perry Studios and the road that led her into a professional television...
Television
Entertainment
LIVING BY DESIGN Featuring Jake, Jazz Smollett Returns Wednesday, September 30 on CLEO TV
“LIVING BY DESIGN” RETURNS TO CLEO TV WITH JAKE AND JAZZ SMOLLETT FOR AN ALL-NEW SEASON PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30...
BET Announces Debut of 1st Micro-Series, ‘Her Baby’ Wednesday, Oct. 7
BET LAUNCHES aTWIST MICROSERIES PARTNERSHIP WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER “HER BABY,” PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 AT 10 P.M. ET/CT ON BET...
The Weeknd Continues Record-Breaking After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour
THE WEEKND KICKS OFF FINAL LEG OF HISTORIC ‘AFTER HOURS TIL DAWN’ STADIUM TOUR ACROSS ASIA WITH BACK-TO-BACK PERFORMANCES AT...
Anthony Edwards Returns to Atlanta to Showcase the Anthony Edwards 3
ANTHONY EDWARDS AND ADIDAS BASKETBALL RETURN HOME TO ATLANTA TO CELEBRATE THE ANTHONY EDWARDS 3 Anthony Edwards returns home to...
Classical Theatre of Harlem Welcomes Wendell Pierce to Its Board of Directors
September 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Classical Theatre of Harlem Welcomes Tony Award-Nominated Actor, Tony Award-Winning Producer, and...
Hip-Hop
The Industry Cosign
The Force MDs: How a Chance Encounter on the Staten Island Ferry Launched a Career
"The Force MDs: How a Chance Encounter on the Staten Island Ferry Launched a Career" is a rare, raw conversation between BIG CED and founding members Kahlil Lundy and Stevie...
Why Black Culture Built the Music Industry
Entertainment attorney Bob Celestin explains how a Yale junior-year course on Black culture, taught by a white professor he describes as “the blackest white man” he’d ever met, transformed his...
From the White House to the Hip Hop Museum | Bryna Jean-Marie on Storytelling, Journalism & Black Culture
BIG CED welcomes longtime friend and media professional Bryna Jean-Marie to discuss her extraordinary journey through journalism, communications, television production, and storytelling. Bryna details how a friend at Howard University...
Inside Tyler Perry Studios: Writer’s Room Secrets, Scriptwriting & Creative Leadership
In this video clip with Bryna Jean-Marie (The Hip Hop Museum), Bryna shares her experience working at Tyler Perry Studios and the road that led her into a professional television...
Books
My Friends Are Better Than Yours Featuring Tek (Smif-N-Wessun)
Tekomin "Tek" Williams joins BIG CED to discuss his journey as a hip-hop legend and his new memoir, Legacy of...
Kevin Powell Announces Book Tour, Pratt Institute Residency
Kevin Powell, GRAMMY-Nominated Poet, Set to Tour America with New Poetry Book AND Serve as Pratt Institute (New York City)...
Iyanla Vanzant Bringing ‘Spiritual Hygiene: The Inside Fix’ to Kings Theatre Nov. 6, 2026
IYANLA VANZANT COMES HOME TO BROOKLYN FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CONVERSATION INSPIRED BY NEW BOOK SPIRITUAL HYGIENE Six-time New York Times bestselling...
Mara Brock Akil Prepares Debut Novel ‘The Revelation of Dionne Daphne’
Award-Winning Showrunner, Writer, Producer, Mara Brock Akil, Enters the Fiction Space with Debut Novel “The Revelation of Dionne Daphne” Crown...
Yassie Set to Release Autism Children’s Book, ‘The Way Shawn Sees It’
Award-Winning Artist Yassie Set to Release New Autism Children’s Book and Return to the ATL Stage For pop artist Yassie, music...
