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Sonequa Martin-Green photographed by Derek Reed covers ESSENCE Magazineās March digital issue.

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AffirmationĀ ā A poem by Assata Shakur
I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity.
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade march through the torso of earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path. I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen bloodthirsty maggots prayed and saluted.
I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. I have walked on cut glass. I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference.
I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know any thing at all, itās that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
These words have carried me on days I just couldnāt even stand.
I am done choosing between my womanhood and my blackness.Ā
Stop giving me fictional white female characters and telling me āthese are the fictional women to admire, the ones that break the mold, the feminist icons, the representation youāve been longing for.āĀ
Stop asking me to squint to see myself represented on screen. Stop telling me to āwait my turnā, to support shows with white female leads as though this was a rare occurrence, as though there havenāt been thousands of them through the years. As though white women havenāt been held as the pinnacle of progress and feminism on TV since Lucille Ball.
Stop telling me that a white woman playing a spy, is innovative and feminist when youāve had Wonder Woman, Charlieās Angels, Scarecrow & Mrs. King and Alias before Agent Carter.
Stop telling me that seeing Jessica Jones, a white female character with PTSD, on screen is a long time coming, a revolutionary feminist act, when Joss Carter, Abbie Mills, Olivia Pope, Sasha Williams and Michonne arenāt afforded the same treatment regarding theirs from writers, media and fandom alike.
Stop telling me that āromance is not part of the showā when said show is built on the loss of the White Male Leadās love interest. Stop labeling black female characters as one half of a ābrotpā, as the supportive friend, a mammy that does everything but wipe the white manās ass or tuck him into bed, only to prop up the Random White Woman In The Background as the obvious choice for a new, better suited love interest.
Stop giving me Trojan Horses, those black female characters Iāve longed for, the ones I finally can see myself in, the ones that youāre praised for creating and writing, the ones you make money off of only to kill them later, once theyāve served their purpose.
We are not your first step towards success, we arenāt a tool to be used to avoid criticism, or appease higher ups afraid of losing money because of the lack of diversity and representation in their shows.
We are not either women or black, we are both and we deserve to be spies, the fated love interest, the damsel in distress, the selfish one, the vulnerable one, the pinnacle of feminism and progress, the one whoās turn has come, the one who was a long time coming.
Stop giving me a drop of water and calling it the sea.
Your culture meshes with mine and mine meshes with yours, but you don't take from mine and I don't take from yours. We live together, embracing each other's cultures, and being expanded by it. That's the way it should be.
Sonequa Martin-Green

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Rep. Maxine Waters covers Essence Magazineās Dec/Jan issue
Watch: She gave the speech at the exact right place and time.
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I highly recommend her book āWeāre Going to Need More Wineā. Itās a memoir presented as a collection of essays in which she has a few pieces that touch on this subject. I especially would recommend reading āLadies and Gentlemen, Miss Pleasantonā and 'Black Girl Bluesā which feel like good accompanying pieces to this speech. 'Mittensā is a good one too if youāre interested in seeing how, despite unlearning this behavior, it still impacts her thought process in overwhelmingly white spaces.
The show Courthouse ran for one season in 1995 on CBS. Jenifer Lewis played Juvenile Judge Rosetta Reide and Cree Summer played Danni Gates, Rosettaās housekeeper and lover. They were the first recurring black lesbian characters on TV, but the roles were asked to be toned down for broadcast. The show was cancelled after 11 episodes. Gina Prince-Bythewood was one of the writers.
Sources: Cree Summerās Instagram, Wikipedia, IMDB
Viola Davis Talks Diversity in Television and Film

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Vanessa L. Williams and her daughter Jillian Hervey cover Essence, January 2017.
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First Lady Michelle Obama photographed by Annie Leibovitz covers Vogue Magazine, December 2016
Viola Davisās solo cover of Essence Magazine, December 2016
Click here to see her cover with Denzel Washington

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Yara Shahidi and Rowan Blanchard cover Teen Vogue, December 2016
Emeli SandeĢ forĀ āWonderlandā Magazine Autumn 2016