Angelique Jackson Throughout Hollywood history, Black actors have played a limited role in onscreen explorations of the past, often serving in small supporting roles or simply not appearing at all.
And, as such, Black people’s place in history often goes unnoticed off-screen and the context necessary to understand the racial tensions of the current moment is lost.“In essence, our history has been so overlooked.
And the specificity of our history has been generalized,” says actor Jurnee Smollett. “We get a month out of the year where people feel obligated to talk about it, which is ludicrous, but the specificity of Black American life and that history has been erased.”A new crop of period television series may be turning the tide on that,.
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