In Focus: Exploring Black Representation in Entertainment

'After back to back years of #OscarsSoWhite, 2016 has opened up promising new opportunities for black Americans in entertainment. In this special episode, The Takeaway is exploring the history and rise of African-Americans in television, film, and theater with Scott Heath a cultural theorist and professor of English at Georgia State University; Filmmaker Julie Dash ; Legendary producer, writer, and director Norman Lear; Actress and singer Leslie Uggams ;  and writer and filmamker Sacha Jenkins, who talks about Cane River, a little seen film by his father Horace Jenkins, a black director who died months after the film's premiere in 1982.'