Black, Just Like My Mama: Saga of A Black Woman Growing Up In America

The episode covers multiple political and social issues. In one scene, Dre and oldest son Junior Marcus Scribner argue over the rights of athletes to kneel during the performance of the national anthem at football games.

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It is one of the few primetime broadcast series to grab the attention of awards voters in recent years, earning a Golden Globe for actress Tracee Ellis Ross and multiple Emmy nominations. The show has also been a solid ratings draw for ABC, which moved it to Tuesday evenings this season in the hopes that it could serve as the anchor for a two-hour comedy block on a night that has troubled the network for years.

This season, it has averaged a 1. An untitled multi-camera comedy from Barris and Julie Bean was given a series order last fall by ABC, but was downgraded to a pilot order after star Alec Baldwin dropped out. Welcome back to Tune In: In her new role, she will report to Cindy Holland, who is also vice president of original content.

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For as scattered as the Golden Globes can be, there are at least a couple of constants when it comes to the nominations. But she never sent the letter, setting it aside in a moment of resignation. Three years later, when Walt Disney died of lung cancer, she was inconsolable. So she resolved to do it herself one day. Fifty-four years later, producer Catherine Hand nearly has. The film brings to life the story of Meg Murry, a gangly adolescent who travels across dimensions to rescue her scientist father.

It also makes the case for thinking independently when conformity is the norm. As a child, Hand assumed that the power to adapt Wrinkle rested with a single man. But it took a collective of women to finally do it: Hand, who later in life befriended the author; screenwriter Jennifer Lee, best known for writing and co-directing the Disney megahit Frozen; and Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay. For the all-powerful trio of Mrs. And for the young hero at the center of it all, she will introduce moviegoers to Storm Reid. As a novel, A Wrinkle in Time has been a mainstay of middle school English curricula for decades.

And it posed a series of philosophical questions that are no less relevant in the era of Trump and Putin than they were in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev. High stakes, in other words. As Winfrey sees it, Wrinkle the movie heightens the stakes even more. The idea for the book came to her during a family camping trip when the names of three old-as-time ethereal beings—Mrs.

She had been on something of a cosmology bender, soaking up the works of Arthur Eddington, Max Planck and Albert Einstein. The book is partly autobiographical. She would come home in the afternoon and write stories with heroes she aspired to be like. With the help of the Mrs. On Camazotz, evidently modeled after postwar suburbs like Levittown, N.

In the end, Meg learns that she has had the tools—critical thinking and boundless love—required to save her father all along. The tale almost never saw the light of day. Some rejected it because they believed its themes too challenging for young readers.

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All told, it met with some 26 rejections before Farrar, Straus and Giroux took a chance. As of its 50th anniversary in , Wrinkle had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. After its publication, Wrinkle was controversial. Most objections were made on the grounds that it was un-Christian. The book is reverential of Jesus, but it also equates him with historical geniuses like da Vinci and Gandhi.

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Not that the book, which won the Newbery Prize in , needed it. Not least among the reasons Wrinkle was so novel and widely read: Watch the Wrinkle In Time Trailer.

She had never read A Wrinkle in Time. Both she and longtime collaborator Winfrey, who grew up in Compton, Calif. DuVernay says a challenge issued by Tendo Nagenda, the Disney executive who put the script in her hands, kept nagging at her.

How many people of color hear that? DuVernay, who started out as a film publicist, launched her filmmaking career with low-budget indies, including Middle of Nowhere, which earned a directing award at Sundance in In , her drama about Martin Luther King Jr.

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She sums up all these conversations: She wanted Meg to have brown skin, and the three Mrs. Those celestial beings include Mrs. Who, who speaks almost exclusively in the words of Buddha, Euripedes and others.