By Rachaell Davis ·Updated February 5, 2022
Over the past decade, an influx of Black decision-makers in writers’ rooms and directors’ chairs has meant seeing our stories chronicled in film and TV—in ways that refuse to sacrifice hard truths to render Black life more palatable for the masses.
In Women of the Movement (that aired on ABC last month), for example, the story of Emmitt Till is told, not to rehash his gruesome
