black renaissance
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Look Back At It: 10 Years A Black Hollywood Renaissance Resurgence
Remember when it seemed like the 1990s was the Black Hollywood Renaissance? We had epic dramas, comedies and beyond in film and television. Hell, y’all remember UPN?! Well, the 2010s seemed to be a taste of what we thirsted for all of these years. In an article from this summer, the New York Times spoke…
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Lena Waithe Doesn’t Want Black Hollywood to Be a ‘Moment or Movement’; She Wants It to Be ‘the Norm’
Lena Waithe summed it up best: “White folks have everything, and we still have a lot of catching up to do.” Time recently announced Ava DuVernay as the guest editor of their new Optimists Issue. You know—just DuVernay bending space and time to fit a little guest editing into all of the other ways she’s…