This is Mistaken Identity Season 1 Episode 6 of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air aired in 1990. Will and Carlton get pulled over for driving a nice car while Black. The officers dismiss Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv completely until Mr. Furth their white legal partner walks in and suddenly the sergeant is calm and professional. Phil then reminds them that he is their lawyer their parent and their worst nightmare if they do not open that cell. This episode aired 35 years ago. In 2026 the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database has been shut down and consent decrees meant to curb police abuse in more than 20 cities are being ended. #blackhistory #blacksitcom #freshprince #theblackoutreport #blacknostalgia
The way they both looked at the camera 🤣🤣 — Tyler James Williams and Orlando Jones have one of the most natural father and son dynamics on television right now, and the fact that they are not actually related makes it even more impressive. Orlando Jones, best known for MadTV and Drumline, plays Martin Eddie, a no nonsense retired military man who spent years questioning whether Gregory’s teaching career was a real job. Watching Gregory navigate his father’s approval while still standing firm in his own identity is some of the most honest Black father and son storytelling we have seen on a sitcom in years. Abbott Elementary really said we see you. 🖤 #AbbottElementary #quinta #blacksitcoms #blacktvshows
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. Today thousands showed up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Alabama State Capitol to fight for it. This is what our generation’s movement looks like. 🖤
📹 Isaac G. Bryan
#MarchForOurVote #OurVoteMatters #DefendOurVote #TrumpBlackout
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow.
Just Mercy came out in 2019 and Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson stood before an Alabama court and said what needed to be said. When you put a Black man on death row before his trial, exclude Black people from his jury, and suppress every piece of evidence that proves his innocence, this stops being about one man. It becomes a test of whether we are governed by fear and anger or by the rule of law.
Bryan Stevenson has spent his career fighting for justice in Alabama. Tomorrow that fight continues at the Alabama State Capitol.
The National Day of Action is May 16. Faith leaders at the Edmund Pettus Bridge at 9AM. National Mass Rally at the Alabama State Capitol 1 to 5PM. Free rides available at allroadsleadtothesouth.com.
This is what fighting for justice in Alabama has always looked like. Tomorrow we show up again. 🖤
#MarchForOurVote #OurVoteMatters #DefendOurVote #TrumpBlackout #JustMercy
Love Don’t Cost a Thing came out December 12, 2003 and starred Nick Cannon and Christina Milian. Alvin Johnson spent his entire pool cleaning savings fixing Paris Morgan’s car just for a chance to be seen differently by his classmates. Kenan Thompson played his best friend Walter, and Steve Harvey played his dad Clarence, and both of them were genuinely funny in ways that made the movie more than just a teen comedy. The film was a remake of Can’t Buy Me Love from 1987 but the 2003 version felt like it was made specifically for us. #lovedontcostathing #christinamillian #nickcannon #blackmovie #romcom
Graduation season hits different when you watch this scene back. Grown-ish Season 4 finale. The whole Cal U crew got on that rooftop and threw Vivek a graduation party just because he needed one. That is what real college friendships look like. Yara Shahidi, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa and the rest of that cast spent four seasons showing what it looks like to grow up in real time together. If you are walking across a stage this month or watching someone you love do it, this one is for you. #grownish #collegegraduate #grad2026
Shawn and Marlon had zero business being that charismatic together but here we are. The show ran on The WB from 1995 to 1999 and somehow never gets mentioned in the same breath as Martin and Living Single even though it absolutely should. John Witherspoon as Pops was carrying scenes without even trying. If you grew up watching TGIF on Friday nights you already know what this show meant. #blacksitcoms #wayansbrothers #90stv
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. In 1965 John Lewis and 600 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama and got beaten on national television for asking to vote. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act two months later. On April 29 2026 the Supreme Court gutted it. Two days from now we are going back. The National Day of Action for Voting Rights starts with a Moral Moment for Faith Leaders at 9AM in Selma and a Rally at 1PM in Montgomery on May 16. Same steps. Different generation. Free rides are available from Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Birmingham, Charlotte, Jackson, Mobile, and more cities! #ourvotematters #defendourvote #selma #votingrights
ATL came out March 31, 2006 and T.I. and Lauren London gave us one of the most iconic breakup scenes in Black cinema history. Rashad gave New New that chain and when it was over he wanted it back. No long speech. No argument. Just give me my chain. That quiet kind of hurt is the kind that sticks. T.I. was 26 years old playing a 16 year old and somehow it worked perfectly. Lauren London made her film debut in this movie and never looked back. Directed by Chris Robinson, produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, written by Tina Gordon, shot on a $7 million budget and made $21 million at the box office. ATL is not just a movie it is a time capsule of mid 2000s Atlanta culture that nobody has come close to recreating since. #atlanta #laurenlondon #breakup #blackmovie
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. Black-ish put this history lesson on ABC in primetime and every word of it is true. In 1870 Congress passed the 15th Amendment giving Black men the right to vote. By 1898 Louisiana had already passed the grandfather clause to strip it away. Registered Black voters dropped from 44 percent to 4 percent. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and violent threats kept that number down through the 1940s. In 1964 the 24th Amendment made poll taxes illegal and over 250,000 new Black voters registered. Then between 2011 and 2013 three states passed restrictive photo ID laws to try to stop us again. In 2026 the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in Louisiana v. Callais and finished what those grandfather clauses started in 1898. Same state. Same target. Different paperwork. Dre said it best. Where we are is so tenuous and can be so easily taken away. He was right then. He is right now. This is a setback not the end. Show up in 2026. #defendourvote #ourvotematters #blacksitcom #blackoutreport #votingrights
