Television
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‘P-Valley’ creator Katori Hall takes us through the stories of the Pynk
The show’s secret sauce, transitioning from theater to TV and what’s in store for season two
Culture
A young mayor takes on inequality in HBO’s ‘Stockton On My Mind’
Can Michael D. Tubbs provide a blueprint for interrupting systemic inequality in his California hometown?
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CBS announces new goals for diversity in network writers’ rooms
Writers’ room staffs must be at least 40% Black, Indigenous and people of color in 2021-22 season
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‘P-Valley’ on Starz never lets its viewers forget the labor that goes into stripping
Katori Hall’s drama is a Southern noir tale of striving and familial destruction
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On TV, a fledgling UPN tried to follow NBC and Fox with black programming
Shows like ‘In the House’ and ‘Moesha’ brought viewers, but it wasn’t enough
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Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ suffers from self-inflicted wounds
The series about hair care mogul Madam C.J. Walker opted for made-up melodrama rather than the dramatic truth
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‘#blackAF’ is painfully devoid of new ideas
Kenya Barris is obsessed with racial essentialism, but black people have moved on
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New season of Issa Rae’s ‘Insecure’ feels trapped on a merry-go-round
The fourth season of the HBO show retreads familiar ground. It’s time to shake things up.
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On Showtime’s ‘Black Monday,’ the fashions are just as outrageous as the story
Costume designer Melissa Bruning talks about dressing Don Cheadle and Regina Hall and recreating 1987