From 2baba's "African Queen" in Phat Girlz to Skales' "Shake Body" in Sex Education, Billboard rounds up 15 Afropop songs that have been featured in TV and film.

A new Nollywood film, Nini, is set to make waves in the Nigerian entertainment industry with a powerful story of betrayal, resilience, and life lessons. Written, produced, and directed by Dr. Samuel ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

The iTunes Movies and TV Shows app predate the unified Apple TV app, and go all the way back to the first version of tvOS in 2015. Fast forward to today, and these apps are almost entirely redundant ...

Paste Studios’ “On the Road” has filmed in some strange and special places over the years, but this session certainly floats above the rest. On a sunny August afternoon in West Chicago during the ...

A new intern applicant—Jasmin— invites the Midnight DJ crew to their ancestral house, claiming that there’s an interesting supernatural story there that would surely land her the job. Patrick, being a ...

EbonyLife Media CEO Mo Abudu isn’t done pushing international boundaries for African storytellers and creators. One of Africa’s preeminent media moguls, the resourceful London-born Abudu is getting ...

For Emily Areta—better known as DJ MLE—the dance floor is more than a party. It’s a place for transformation. Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms with her Afro-Panamanian roots, Areta doesn’t just play ...

Then in April 2024, engineer Armand Swart was executed in a similar shooting after his company flagged a suspicious government tender in which prices had been inflated by over 4,500 percent. But ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Screengrabs from Elio, Soul, and Inside Out 2 (2025, 2020, 2024) An early line in Elemental where ...