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Dear HBO: Make a Series About Race
Slate‘s Tanner Colby has a proposal for the network: Create a show about the chapter of American cultural history between Mad Men and The Wire. Friday Night Lights and The Wire both offered intelligent, thoughtful portraits of race. For laughs, we’ve still got the smart and subtle humor of NBC’s Community, FX’s Louie, and Comedy…
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'Mad Men' and Black America
In a blog entry at Slate, Tanner Colby checks in on the wildly popular AMC series Mad Men, which has long been criticized for sidestepping the issue of race. It may address the subject in a big way in its upcoming season by focusing on the civil rights movement. … For the past four seasons,…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
