A brand new streaming service is ready to convey extra Black tradition to your tv display.

Introducing Mansa – a free ad-supported streaming video-on-demand service for world Black tradition, as reported by Subsequent TV. Based by actors Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, and Chiké Okonkwo, Mansa is designed to supply quite a lot of content material, like on-demand titles, digital linear channels, and short-form movies.

Collaborating with tech entrepreneur and movie financier, Zak Tanjeloff, TechCrunch reported the corporate will quickly announce they’ve closed an $8 million seed spherical, led by MaC Enterprise Capital. They’ve obtained further funding from teams like Robert F. Smith’s Vista Fairness Companions and former mayor of Sacramento and NBA participant, Kevin Johnson’s Black Capital VC. The purpose is to supply free, ad-supported content material, one thing that Tanjeloff mentioned is difficult to search out.

“That was form of our aha second, which is can we construct a streaming platform for curated world Black tradition, and ship it to the world totally free,” he mentioned.

The platform will present programming with world Black stars together with Idris Elba’s Second Coming and Trevor Noah’s comedy particular, You Snicker However It’s True, and extra, buying licensing for greater than 1,500 hours of content material. With their audience being youthful millennials and Gen Z, customers will have the ability to scroll by the app on their telephone with a TikTok-style feed that may characteristic trending movies, with classes starting from music to meals, from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

“For 4 hours a day, they’re in entrance of a tv display, watching long-form content material, and the opposite 4 hours in entrance of their telephone watching short-form content material,” Tanjeloff mentioned. “So what we thought can be fascinating was if we are able to marry the 2 in a extremely fascinating method that no one is doing.”

On high of Black TikTok-like content material, followers can take part reside with a characteristic titled “Watch Out Loud,” permitting customers to affix watch events and stream films and TV exhibits with the creators and impartial filmmakers.