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Despite big changes and a new pastor, Graceway Church is in trouble. But with the season of giving upon them, First Lady Rita thinks a holiday reunion of her sons’ gospel group will be exactly the thing that the church and its community need to get the necessary money… if old gripes and scandals don’t sabotage it all. Will Christmas past get in the way of the Christmas future of the Church, or will the brothers and their wives be able to harmonize in time? “Favorite Son Christmas,” Tank, Lisa Arrindell, Loren Lott, Serayah, and more, rings in the season BET+ on Thursday, Dec. 14. You can watch Favorite Son Christmas with a 7-Day Free Trial of BET+.

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Momo Rodriguez has joined the cast of FX’s Mayans M.C. in a recurring role.

Details about his role are being kept under wraps.

Rodriguez is also a stand-up comedian and a comedy writer. He is also a producer on George Lopez’s Netflix special We’ll Do It For Half.

Mayans M.C. premieres March 16 at 10 Pm Et/Pt on FX with the first two episodes of its third season.

He is repped by Hg5 Entertainment.

Thom Scott II is set to join the fifth season of Saints & Sinners which debuts April 11 on Bounce.

Scott will play Dr. Ross, a gifted physician who specializes in groundbreaking experimental medical procedures to ensure successful treatments by any means.

Set against the backdrop of a large southern church, Saints & Sinners centers around the pursuit of power, intertwined with greed, deception, corruption, compromising sexual affairs and murder.

Scott’s recently appeared in the...

"Guiding Light" star Lawrence Saint-Victor will join the acclaimed new play, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, by Layon Gray, this Monday, April 5th at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.) Lawrence Saint-Victor is replacing Lamman Rucker in the cast, which also features Demetrius Gross, Thom Scott II, Antonio Charity, Layon Gray, David Wendell Boykins, Derek Shaun, Jay Jones, and Rich Skidmore.

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Tambay’s post yesterday, The Black Gents Discuss Black Theatre In America, reminded me of an email I received from one of the members of The Black Gents of Hollywood a few weeks ago (yes, I’ve been lax in my blogging commitment of late). I met this particular Black Gent a few years ago in Atlanta, during the Independent Black Film Festival, and have remained on his emailing list ever since. I’ve yet to respond to any of the emails by actually getting up and going to see any of their productions, but that’s only because it’s a long way from London to Los Angeles and, while I’ve been known to travel across oceans on a whim, the funds situation is clawing itself out of a bit of a dip right now.

However, following the discussion in the video posted by Tambay yesterday,...