#blackprogramming

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📰🎬#ArtIsAWeapon Via the @nytimes - How @Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content The company didn’t set out to build a big library of Black programming, but now it’s the envy of its rivals. (Excerpts)...Hollywood is scrambling, in its traditional way — late, liberal, a bit ham-handed — to catch up with this cultural moment. Some #streamingservices have made civil rights-themed programming free to all, while studios race to sign new projects by #Blackdirectors. And to the immense frustration of mostly white executives all over town, they also find themselves — again! — scrambling to catch up with Netflix, already a threat to their technology and business model, and now winning the race to the center of the conversation as well. On June 10, Netflix flexed the depth of its #Blackprogramming by showcasing a “Black Lives Matter” collection of 56 shows, films and documentaries, including Ms. DuVernay’s mini-series on the false convictions of the Central Park Five, “When They See Us” [@whentheyseeus] and her documentary on systemic racism and mass incarceration, “13th.” “Netflix doesn’t have to trot out the one or two things, but it has a library that’s a wide cross section of taste and content that speaks to the understating of that audience,” said Ms. DuVernay, who is producing a new scripted Netflix series on the former National Football League [@nfl] quarterback Colin Kaepernick [@kaepernick7]. She called the service “the foremost and most robust distributor of Black images in the world.” Read full story: How Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content https://nyti.ms/3eXQvN4 #Netflix #BlackCreatives #ClarenceAvant #Hollywood #BlackHollywood #BlackStorytellers #BlackContent #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CCTiJAsA0sx/?igshid=1rfwc5v6vze21

All code will be available through my GitHub as well. I’m excited to get this thing rolling!