Article written by Meah Denee Barrington and Phebe Banks The pandemic has been hard for everyone and that is why we wanted to give our audience a refresher and drop new...
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Meah is the Founder and Host of The Reel Effect; your go-to entertainment news site for all things black entertainment news. Our mission is to showcase not only television, film and celebrity news but also the work of indie filmmakers and artists. Follow her work at www.youtube.com/ Learn more about her at www.meahdenee.com
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Celebrity Publicist Rocky Builds Up Brockton Community With New Activist Organization “The DARRC Coalition”
Many people see working in the entertainment industry as a constant grind, that you are on call 24/7 and need to out hustle the person beside you. There is some truth to...
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Five Film Organizations To Help You Get Your Foot In The Door!
If you don’t know who I am well… let me introduce myself! I’m Meah Denee Barrington, the founder of this website! I take great pride in that because...
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Reel Exclusive: Black Animator Discusses Short Film On God Being A Woman
Black animators are rare within big animation studios like Pixar, Warner Bros. Animation, and Illumination Entertainment. Thankfully black animated stories are being...
Film and activism are almost synonymous to each other, they have allowed black voices to be heard in such powerful ways that has changed the trajectory of how people of...
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Black Nominees Hit Record HIGH For 72nd Emmy Awards!
On Tuesday morning, the nominations for the 72nd Emmy Awards were released with a reigning list of black and POC nominees! Almost, every category had a nominee that is a...
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Coming 2 America Release Date And Storyline Revealed
Over 30 years ago, Eddie Murphy amazed and entertained us with his plethora of characters like Saul, Randy Watson, Clarence, and Prince Akeem! Our favorite being the...
A few weeks ago the world was hit with the Media Black Out, a movement that called for individuals, specifically people of color, to turn off their connection to any...
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“This Is Us” Actor Niles Fitch Lands Role As Disney’s First Black, Live Action Prince
It seems that Disney has finally caught up to history and created a storyline for its FIRST black prince in its newest live action movie. The role goes to Niles Fitch...
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Your New Favorite Girlfriend, Ebony Obsidian, From BET’s Hit Show “Sistas”!
We all know Issa Rae started the whole wave of creating a hit web series featuring a black woman! The wave continued with people of color producing more and more content...