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Who the hell are you anyway . Who am i . You will find out very soon. Very soon. [ernie] then we became lead actors. We dont run. Okay, we stick together and we fight. Get out of my house. You are afr drama is where all of the conflict happens. [tisha] scandal is my favorite drama. How many times have i told you, you have to be what . Everything about it, the twist, the turns, the acting. Twice as good. Twice as good as them to get half of what they have. I love queen sugar, david makes man. I like the intimacy of that world thats being depicted. Definitely, New York Undercover. Waiting for the cops. You stupid . Turn around. Malik yoba, it was a positive role. It was a great thing to see someone who looks like you, very much a Pivotal Moment of growing, and trying to figure out who i was. American drama, it almost doesnt. It doesnt exist without black people now. upbeat music Smooth Jazz Music [hank] hey, you looking for somebody . Thats right, hank plummer. You know, i can find him .
Who the hell are you anyway . Who am i . You will find out very soon. Very soon. [ernie] then we became lead actors. We dont run. Okay, we stick together and we fight. Get out of my house. You are afr drama is where all of the conflict happens. [tisha] scandal is my favorite drama. How many times have i told you, you have to be what . Everything about it, the twist, the turns, the acting. Twice as good. Twice as good as them to get half of what they have. I love queen sugar, david makes man. I like the intimacy of that world thats being depicted. Definitely, New York Undercover. Waiting for the cops. You stupid . Turn around. Malik yoba, it was a positive role. It was a great thing to see someone who looks like you, very much a Pivotal Moment of growing, and trying to figure out who i was. American drama, it almost doesnt. It doesnt exist without black people now. upbeat music Smooth Jazz Music [hank] hey, you looking for somebody . Thats right, hank plummer. You know, i can find him .
for first four years. part of it, is what do people feel comfortable doing? and my whole thing was just write the humanity of it. i ll bring the blackness, don t worry about that. we ll bring the specificity to it, but don t deny us access to that part of our humanity and our character. so, it s been a journey. (smooth bass line) we have to get to the point where we have the privilege and the right as artists to play all kinds of characters. that s my, cause i know how far we ve come. we still have a ways to go, but i know how far we ve come, and that s exciting. (upbeat music)
she was sort of the first black dramatic actress to gain a real, i think, stature in hollywood, and then also in the eyes of the white community as well as the black community. so, that jane pitman was a big deal when it came out. - part of me went with him to his grave. - the tv landscape just changed when the mini series first appeared, and it comes on in the 70s. it was a fuller expression than you could get in one or two-hour tv movie. - rich man poor man might have been the first, but when people think of miniseries in the 70s, they think of roots. - roots became the very first of what we now call appointment tv. (fighters grunting) (whip slashing) - it is hard for people today, to understand how important roots was, because it was the first time that you followed the journey of an african american family. you saw it up close and personal from kunta kinte,