Seen and Heard: The History of Black Television
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Issa Rae Self
Shonda Rhimes Self
Tyler Perry Self
Lena Waithe Self
Oprah Winfrey Self
Tracee Ellis Ross Self
Ava DuVernay Self
Norman Lear Self
Swizz Beatz Self
Debbie Allen Self
Kenya Barris Self
Cord Jefferson Self
Malcolm-Jamal Warner Self
Mara Brock Akil Self
Byron Allen Self
Deondray Gossfield Self
Terence Nance Self
Syreeta Singleton Self
Tamera Mowry-Housley Self
Quincy Gossfield Self
Giselle Bailey Director
Giselle Bailey Producer
Phil Bertelsen Producer
Issa Rae Executive Producer
Montrel McKay Executive Producer
John Maggio Executive Producer
Rachel Dretzin Executive Producer
John Ealer Executive Producer
Jonathan Berry Executive Producer
Dave Becky Executive Producer
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Matt Roush says...
“It’s hard to feel seen,” reflects no less an eminence than Oprah Winfrey, who remembers growing up “with no images of myself being reflected back to me.” A two-part documentary, concluding Wednesday, from executive producer Issa Rae (Insecure) and director Giselle Bailey provides a sweeping cultural history of Black images and characters on TV from early stereotyping (Beulah, Amos ‘n’ Andy) to breakthroughs of the 1960s including Julia with Diahann Carroll and Nichelle Nichols‘ portrayal of Star Trek‘s Uhura (a favorite of Martin Luther King Jr.) through Norman Lear‘s topical comedies (Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford & Son) to a more modern era when shows were actually run by people of color (In Living Color, Girlfriends, black-ish). “My hope is that there will be more shows that show us as ourselves in our deep complexity,” Winfrey concludes.
