Toronto Actor-Brothers Stephan James And Shamier Anderson Launch The Black Academy

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When Toronto-raised actor Stephan James got the inaugural Radius Award at last year’s Canadian Screen Awards, he felt incredibly honoured but also a bittersweetness.

The elation from being presented the trophy by his brother and fellow actor Shamier Anderson, while their friends and family tearfully watched from the audience, grew complicated when James realized: “I was probably going to be one of maybe a few Black people that were going to step on that stage that night.” “Something about it was just unsettling,” the Golden Globe-nominated star of the Amazon Prime Video series “Homecoming” said in a recent interview from Los Angeles. “It was unsettling for myself, it was unsettling for Shamier.” Anderson and James are now taking steps to