At the beginning of the shutdown, the conversations that I saw and organized were focused on making sure that the work that had been done on inclusion — including keeping the attention on building the pipeline for women and people of color, while watching some of those same people get laid off — would not get left behind post pandemic.
Now, due to the protests across the country and globe, the conversation on inclusion is rightly shifting to urgently centering the voices of Black people.
Let’s face it. This should have been urgent years ago. Hollywood may be a place on the map, but it is also a mindset. Movies are a huge American export around the world.
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