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Listen: ‘#BlackAF’ Creator-Star Kenya Barris Calls Police Brutality a ‘Compulsion’

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIf exposing his life in the semi-autobiographical ABC comedy “Black-ish” wasn’t enough, Kenya Barris now plays a fictionalized version of himself in “#BlackAF.” The Netflix series — the first project under the $100 million overall deal that Barris signed with the streamer in August 2018 — is a satirical look at himself, his family (series co-producer Rashida Jones plays his wife) and his career.

The show was recently picked up for a second season.Fame and fortune aside (he’s also the writer behind movies “Girls Trip” and the upcoming “Coming to America” sequel), Barris isn’t numb to the harsh, and sometimes fatal, realities of being Black.

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