It’s easy to see how overwhelmingly white Hollywood’s TV writers’ rooms are. In 2017, a Color of Change report found that only 4.8% of 3,817 writers on 234 TV shows were Black. Two-thirds of those shows had no Black writers at all. In 2020, “Watchmen” writer Cord Jefferson told The Washington Post that […]
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‘Insecure’ Writer Mike Guayo Is On A Mission To Bring More Black Voices To TV
It’s easy to see how overwhelmingly white Hollywood’s TV writers’ rooms are. In 2017, a Color of Change report found that only 4.8% of 3,817 writers on 234 TV shows were Black. Two-thirds of those shows had no Black writers at all. In 2020, “Watchmen” writer Cord Jefferson told The Washington Post that […]
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2020 wasn’t all bad. How one writer embraced the mantra of relax and have a homebrew.
Like many people, I needed a new hobby. As spring faded into summer my typical, fully-loaded work schedule cleared up and to my surprise I had time on my hands. It felt bizarre. When the shock of Tiger King wore off, my next undertaking was tackling a bunch of new […]
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‘Soul’ Writer Mike Jones on His Winding Path from Film Journalism to Pixar
In Pixar’s “Soul,” jazz pianist Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) struggles to escape the afterlife after an injury endangers his upcoming gig. The movie is written by Pete Docter (“Inside Out”), Kemp Powers (“One Night in Miami”), and Mike Jones, who also makes his Pixar debut as a lead producer. Jones […]