“Literally everybody’s starring in a pilot. I think that’s wonderful. Part of me thinks, Well that’s wildly racist of all the networks to suddenly decide that the best way to get a show on the air is to just throw a Black woman on it. Yet part of me feels like, For God’s sake, it’s about time! If they’re going to be stupid, let’s use their stupidity…” –Shonda Rhimes in ESSENCE
ESSENCE’s 45th anniversary May issue features five of the most prolific storytellers in television, film and the Web today who have changed the Hollywood game: Shonda Rhimes, Debbie Allen, Ava DuVernay, Mara Brock Akil and Issa Rae. In the article, Unscripted, ESSENCE gathers these influential storytellers for one epic conversation on how they are telling our stories—and crushing it! The May issue of ESSENCE hits newsstands on 4/17.
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