Kenya Barris News

Kenya Barris, the creator of black-ish, was a guest on Tuesday night's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon! Barris was there to talk about bringing the Juneteenth musical he created with Pharrell to Netflix and to break down why Juneteenth should be considered the true day of independence.

I'm being represented and now my experiences, especially being a composing/theory major in college, with the way songs I write are perceived are now being shown in a song! How apropos!

Kenya Barris, the creator of black-ish, and Pharrell Williams are in talks with Netflix to develop a feature-length musical about Juneteenth, according to Deadline. Juneteenth, which is celebrated on June 19, commemorates of the end of slavery in the United States.

Today, ABC announced the Emmy Award-nominated comedy series “black-ish” will join the network's Wednesday night lineup when the 2020-2021 prime-time schedule premieres. The previously announced new comedy “Call Your Mother” will debut later in the season.

Having just solidified its position as the No. 1 network in entertainment among Adults 18-49 for the first time in four years, ABC is announcing its 2020-2021 programming slate, which includes renewals for 19 series and two straight-to-series orders from its current crop of pilots

In advance of the Disney Advertising Sales Virtual Roadshow presentation, Freeform highlighted its commitment to bold and boundary-pushing young adult content with the pickups of both “Everything's Gonna be Okay“ and “Motherland: Fort Salem,” as well as the recently announced scripted romantic-comedy series “Love in the Time of Corona'