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Last Updated: November 6, 2025
Movies:
On the Come Up (Angie Thomas)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: September 23, 2022
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour 56 minutes
Director: Sanaa Lathan
Screenwriter: Kay Oyegun
Domestic Opening: $236,153 (Debut was Limited Release & Paramount+)
Domestic Gross Earnings: $150,697
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Apple, Fandango At Home, Google Play, Plex, YouTube
The Sun is Also A Star (Nicola Yoon)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Director: Stella Meghie
Screenwriter: J. Mills Goodloe
Domestic Opening: $2,511,530
Domestic Gross Earnings: $4,950,029
Worldwide Earnings: $6,750,029
Streaming: Roku (With Ads), Tubi (With Ads)
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Apple, Fandango At Home, Google Play, YouTube
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
Studio: 20th Century Studios
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hours 13 minutes
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Screenwriter: Audrey Wells
Domestic Opening: $512,035
Domestic Gross Earnings: $29,719,483
Worldwide Earnings: $34,934,009
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Apple, Fandango At Home, Google Play
Monster (Walter Dean Myers)
Studio: Entertainment Studios
Netflix Release Date: May 7, 2021
Limited Release Date: January 22, 2018
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour 38 minutes
Director: Anthony Mandler
Screenwriters: Janece Shaffer & Colen C. Wiley
Streaming: Netflix
Everything, Everything (Nicola Yoon)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
Director: Stella Meghie
Screenwriter: J. Mills Goodloe
Domestic Opening: $11,727,390
Domestic Gross Earnings: $34,121,140
Worldwide Earnings: $61,621,140
Streaming: Cinemax (Subscription via Amazon Prime or YouTube)
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Fandango At Home, Google Play
Blackbird (Larry Duplechan)
Studio: RLJE Films
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
Director: Patrik-Ian Polk
Screenwriters: Rikki Beadle Blair, Patrik-Ian Polk
Domestic Gross Earnings: $78,400
Streaming: All Blk (Subscription via Amazon Prime), Fawesome, Hoopla, Philo, Plex (With Ads), Roku (With Ads), Tubi (With Ads)
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Apple, Fandango At Home, Google Play
Precious (Based on Push by Sapphire)
Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Rating: R
Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Director: Lee Daniels
Screenwriter: Geoffrey Fletcher
Domestic Opening: $1,872,458
Domestic Gross Earnings: $47,566,524
Worldwide Earnings: $63,649,529
Streaming: Fubo, MovieSphere (Subscription through Amazon Prime or YouTube), Plex, Tubi (With Ads)
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Apple, Fandango At Home, Google Play, YouTube
The Cheetah Girls: One World (Deborah Gregory)
Network: Disney Channel
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Rating: TV-G
Running Time: 1 hour 26 minutes
Director: Paul Hoen
Screenwriters: Dan Berendsen, Nisha Ganatra, Jen Small
Streaming: Disney+
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Fandango At Home
The Cheetah Girls 2 (Deborah Gregory)
Network: Disney Channel
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Rating: TV-G
Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
Director: Kenny Ortega
Screenwriters: Bethesda Brown, Alison Taylor
Streaming: Disney+
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Fandango At Home
The Cheetah Girls (Deborah Gregory)
Network: Disney Channel
Release Date: August 15, 2003
Rating: TV-G
Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Director: Oz Scott
Screenwriter: Alison Taylor
Streaming: Disney+
Digital Rental/Purchase: Amazon, Fandango At Home
Television:
Naomi (Based on the comics by David F. Walker, Brian Michael Bendis, Jamal Campbell)
Network: The CW
Genre: Drama
Series Run: 1 Season, 13 Episodes
Series Premiere: January 11, 2022
Streaming: Hulu, HBO Max (Subscription via Amazon Prime)
Digital Purchase: Fandango At Home
Tiny Pretty Things (Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra)
Network: Netflix
Genre: Drama
Series Run: 1 Season, 10 Episodes
Series Premiere: December 14, 2020
Streaming: Netflix
Noughts & Crosses (Malorie Blackman)
Network: BBC One
Genre: Drama
Series Run: 1 Season, 6 Episodes
Series Premiere: March 5, 2020
Streaming: BBC (UK), Peacock (Subscription via Amazon Prime)
Miracle’s Boys (Jacqueline Woodson)
Network: Noggin
Genre: Drama
Mini Series Run: 6 Episodes
Series Premiere: February 18, 2005
Static Shock (Based on the comics by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, Derek T. Dingle, & Christopher Priest)
Network: The WB
Genre: Drama
Mini Series Run: 4 Seasons, 52 Episodes
Series Premiere: September 20, 2000
Digital Purchase: Amazon Prime, Fandango At Home, YouTube