Juliana Ukiomogbe

5 days ago | elle.com | Juliana Ukiomogbe

Spoilers below. “Back in July of 2020, I pitched Judy [Blume] how I would reimagine this love story,” Mara Brock Akil wrote on Instagram when she announced her new show, Forever, based on Blume’s 1975 novel. The book follows a teenage couple named Katherine and Michael as they explore their sexuality, and themselves, during their senior year of high school. Now, 50 years later, the classic young adult story gets the Akil treatment.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Juliana Ukiomogbe

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."“Back in July of 2020, I pitched Judy [Blume] how I would reimagine this love story,” Mara Brock Akil wrote on Instagram when she announced her new show, Forever, based on Blume’s 1975 novel. The book follows a teenage couple named Katherine and Michael as they explore their sexuality, and themselves, during their senior year of high school.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Juliana Ukiomogbe

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."The final episode of Netflix’s Forever begins exactly how the season started—at a swanky New Year’s Eve party. Only this time, Keisha (Lovie Simone) and Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.) aren’t on the best of terms. They’re still in the middle of an argument that began at the end of the last episode, but, like many of their fights, they quickly resolve things after the party, and all is forgiven.

1 week ago | wmagazine.com | Juliana Ukiomogbe

Toyin Ojih Odutola photographed by Beth WilkinsonOn May 6, Toyin Ojih Odutola unveiled her latest exhibition, Ilé Oriaku, at New York City’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Across 31 artworks, some of which were shown last year in the Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in her solo exhibit at the Kunsthalle Basel, the artist pays homage to her late grandmother, who passed away last June.

1 week ago | elle.com | Juliana Ukiomogbe

Spoilers below. After years of wanting to lead her own TV show, Lovie Simone has finally actualized that dream. The Bronx-born actress now stars in Netflix’s Forever, an adaptation of Judy Blume’s 1975 controversial novel about a teenage couple exploring their sexuality in New Jersey. Out today, the show—now set in California—stays true to many of the book’s central themes of adolescent angst and bodily autonomy, but with one major, obvious twist: the entire main cast is Black.