Coming-of-age TV series are making a welcome back. But why aren’t Black girls allowed to join on the complicated, flawed, and ...

So, as you can see, there are some excellent coming-of-age films headed by stellar Black talent, and there are even more out there. I can’t recommend the films that have been discussed enough.

With her debut feature film, “Pariah,” Dee Rees widened the scope for coming-age stories centering on Black girls. The film follows 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye), who hides her burgeoning ...

The title of the book, “Straddling Black and White,” not only refers to the differences between Israel and Ethiopia and the color of people’s skin, but also to Azmera’s coming of age story ...

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s stunning debut novel, Big Girl, is the story of a Black girl’s coming-of-age.While growing up in gentrifying Harlem during the 1980s and ’90s, Malaya Clondon is ...

Beneath the romance and high school drama, Forever delivers a heartfelt, deeply authentic Black coming-of-age story, something I'd argue we don't see enough of in mainstream media.

Coming-of-age, Black girl stories do exist, in general, but whether it is the now young women who starred in the various Kenya Barris’ “-Ish” productions or Delilah on “The Equalizer ...

Pop Culture ‘I’m a Virgo’ takes the Black coming-of-age story to new heights. Jharrel Jerome is a 13-foot-tall man, eager to explore the world around him, in this new Prime Video series from ...

Director Scott Derrickson teases a high school setting for The Black Phone 2's coming-of-age thriller. The sequel sees original cast members return for its anticipated June 2025 release.

A main character in "The Gilded Age" is a young Black woman pursuing a journalism career. Newport had its own real-life version of Peggy Scott.