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Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Description: This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for Carmen Jones , to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50 s racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water.
This season, CBS s Los Angeles-based police drama,
S.W.A.T., has regularly dived into Black Lives Matter politics. Black lead character, Hondo (Shemar Moore), and his family repeatedly agonize about law enforcement in the black community.
This week s episode, Fractured, on December 9, returned to the nothing s changed narrative of the premiere after Hondo s boss, Lieutenant Lynch (Amy Farrington), asked him if he would take part in an LAPD marketing campaign to recruit a new generation of black officers. Hondo understandably rejects being used as a mere public relations tool, but takes his criticism further after another black S.W.A.T. officer, Erika (Lyndie Greenwood), asks him why he does not want to do the campaign.