While we all have different desires, we all have in common the perception that by having or experiencing what we want, we will feel good or better. Sometimes, this makes us conditioned to wait for things or people to make us feel happy. What if the formula works completely opposite?! At least, by allowing ourselves to have faith and enjoy our journey, we will have the possibility to be in control or how we feel.
Q: I read on your site that you attended military school, was there a reason behind this? It isn’t typically the school of choice for aspiring actresses.
From crashing the audition and landing a part in the hit movie “Save the Last Dance” to her new role in the CW series “All American”. Karimah Westbrook learned you have to “Go For It”.
Q: How would you describe the racial climate today? We are doing great things and doors are opening but at the same time, racism is becoming more “in your face” again.
A: Racism is as sad today as it was when our ancestors experienced it. I still believe it’s a spirit of some kind, living throughout the generations and beliefs taught in the households. Today technology can capture racist acts on video so it feels like it’s more in our faces but racism has never not existed.
Star style trends to watch for the new fall season.
Sophisticated Black Hair Oct/Nov issue. Photo by Nate Taylor
“Actress Karimah Westbrook is a true All American beauty, which coincidentally, is the name of her new CW-TV show. Here, the Naturalista shows off her gorgeous curls worn loose and snipped into a graduated bob. A center part is all that’s needed to detail this camera-ready coif…”
Cody Christian, Greta Onieogou, Karimah Westbrook, Spencer Paysinger, Bre-Z, April Blair, Jalyn Hall, Daniel Ezra, Monet Mazur, Samantha Logan and Michael Evans Behling from ‘All American’ attend The Paley Center for Media’s 2018 PaleyFest Fall TV Previews in Beverly Hills, California.
Procter & Gamble’s “The Talk” wins the primetime commercial Emmy during the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards weekend at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Created by BBDO New York and directed by Malik Vitthal of The Corner Shop, “The Talk” is part of P&G’s continuing My Black Is Beautiful initiative. The piece features different African-American parents having “The Talk” with their kids about racial bias and how it can make life more difficult–and at times even more dangerous.
Hamilton first started taking the world by storm in 2015, but artists still haven’t yet run out of ways to put their own spin on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical. Andra Day first covered the Eliza Hamilton power ballad “Burn” on The Hamilton Mixtape in 2016, but now a new music video has been released for her version of the song. Directed by Aurora Guerro. The music video stars actors Karimah Westbrook, Raul Castillo and Kelsey Scott.
Producers and cast from “All American” speak onstage at the CW Network portion of the Summer 2018 TCA Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
At the TCA press tour for “All American” are, back row from left, Rob Hardy, Greg Berlanti, April Blair, Spencer Paysinger, Robbie Rogers and bottom row from left, Cody Christian, Michael Evans-Behling, Greta Onieogou, Bre-Z, Daniel Ezra, Taye Diggs, Samantha Logan, Monet Mazur, Karimah Westbrook and Jalyn Hall.
Consumer goods corporation P&G gets Emmy nomination for their advertisement “The Talk,” which featured black families over the course of decades facing the same racial bias and discrimination, leading mothers to have “the talk” about inequality and racism with their children. Directed by Malik Vitthal, Karimah plays one of the mothers in the commercial. Learn more…
The CW television series All American goes into production for season 1. Here are a few photos of Karimah on set with some of her cast-mates; Daniel Ezra, Jalyn Emil Hall, Michael Evans-Behling, and Bre-Z.
ALL AMERICAN (2018 – ) Filming
When a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.
While we all have different desires, we all have in common the perception that by having or experiencing what we want, we will feel good or better. Sometimes, this makes us conditioned to wait for things or people to make us feel happy. What if the formula works completely opposite?! At least, by allowing ourselves to have faith and enjoy our journey, we will have the possibility to be in control or how we feel. 
