The best-friend role is so often a thankless one on TV. So much interest and conflict and contradictions get baked into the lead character, and with good reason. He or she are the face of the show.

“Rising star” is kind of a played out term. If we’re going to be real, millennials are all about showing receipts. And Ashley Blaine Featherson has got them. The 29-year-old has been consistently ...

When rising star Ashley Blaine Featherson heard that Netflix was turning the award-winning indie film Dear White People into a 10-episode series, she was hyped to play Joelle “Curls” Brooks again. “It ...

If we're being honest -- and I'm a big fan of being honest -- Netflix's Dear White People is an underrated show as a whole. The politically savvy comedy from Justin Simien, who wrote the 2014 movie ...