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Share This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Purple List and an important milestone with two of its distinguished alumni, Shaka King and Chloé Zhao, earning 2021 Academy Award nominations for Judas and the Black Messiah and Nomadland, respectively. Both of their debut features Zhao’s Songs My Brother Taught Me and King’s Newlyweeds were official selections in the inaugural Purple List in 2012. The annual list was inspired by Franklin Leonard’s Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays. Throughout its 10 year history, the Purple List has selected 44 scripts from 46 screenwriters. Twenty-eight of the 41 screenwriters from the 10 editions of the Purple List are women; 27 are from Black, Asian, or other minority ethnic backgrounds; and seven identify as LGBTQ or have LGBTQ themes in the screenplay. ....
The Glow Up 50 2021: Meet the Phenoms of Fashion The category is: Fashion. They are influencers, editors, creators and decision-makers and they always do it in style. This year’s 10 TGU 50 Fashion honorees are designing a more equitable, colorful fashion industry for us all to see ourselves reflected in. Tellingly, this year’s honorees include several long-overdue “firsts,” some of whom have been doing revelatory work behind the scenes for decades. Now at the forefront, they will undoubtedly change the face of fashion for generations to come. Advertisement Advertisement CaSandra Diggs If you needed an example of what it looks like to secure a seat at the proverbial table, look no further than the new president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America CaSandra Diggs. Making history as the first Black woman to ever hold the position, Diggs is a 20-year veteran of the CFDA, having joined the organization in 2001 and previously acting as its chief ....
Black Jesus Print this article For liberals who regard the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency with residual suspicion, these are confusing times. While the FBI could once be dismissed as a haven for skull-crackers and fascists, today’s authorities largely limit themselves to monitoring Republican politicians and sniffing out white-bread y’all Qaeda types. Happily, the motion picture industry has hit upon a solution to liberals’ cognitive dissonance. If the Left can no longer heckle G-men in the present tense, it can do so via the magic of period filmmaking. Set at the height of the Black Panther movement’s power and influence, ....