Whitney Friedlander Television producers have long used their medium as a tool to push progressive thinking on such nuanced topics as interracial dating, queer acceptance and abortion into everyday American households.
But what about storytelling that makes these creators and their supporters point the finger inward at their own shortcomings and failures to act?This year, as a result of increased publicity for Black Lives Matter and other similar movements, several Emmy contenders have had honest conversations about race in their writers’ rooms and on screen.
These depictions include the obvious outward kind, as well as the internal biases that live within us all.Christina M. Kim, co-showrunner for the CW’s martial-arts drama “Kung Fu,”.
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