Black Art Is in High Demand. But Telling Our Stories Comes at a Cost

11:04am PST - January 29th, 2021    whitney houston - Time

When I wrote my first movie script 10 years ago with a close friend, he and I argued about whether or not the main characters should be Black. I believed then that we wouldn’t be able to sell a movie with Black protagonists. Things are different now. In the p…