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  • Jeremy Tardy. Young Black man with shaven dark hair and short dark facial hair wearing a brown suit jacket and black/white graphic shirt.

    Actor Jeremy Tardy Posts His Own Scathing 'Dear White People' Letter

    Tardy wrote on Facebook: “Politically correct lip service and symbolic gestures do not absolve you of the daily responsibility of doing business in a fair and equitable manner.”
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Sep 14, 2020 5:00PM EDT
    Bozoma Saint John and Zendaya. Dark-skinned Black woman with long black hair, bright smile, gold necklace and sequined bustier stands beside light-skinned Black woman with hair in ponytail wearing hoop earrings and white dress with illustrated character

    Zendaya On Racism, Colorism and Representation

    “We’re vastly too beautiful and too interesting for me to just be the only representation of that.”

    Kenrya Rankin Apr 23, 2018 10:20AM EDT

    READ: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why the Nina Simone Biopic Debate is More Than Skin Deep

    “But there is something deeply shameful—and hurtful—in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic. In this sense, the creation of ‘Nina’ is not a neutral act. It is part of the problem.”

    Kenrya Rankin Mar 21, 2016 12:37PM EDT

    Nate Parker: 'Resistance Lives in the Air in This Current Moment'

    The director, producer, writer and lead actor for ”The Birth of a Nation” describes contemporary activism and his quest to release Sundance’s most-anticipated film in a story from The Hollywood Reporter. 

    Sameer Rao Jan 22, 2016 3:41PM EST

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