And please, support black art—books, music, TV, films, visual art—especially that which provides nuanced images and characterizations of black people. I recommend James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk and the Barry Jenkins film adaptation, a great characterization of how black families endured in the ’50s and ’60s against stacked odds. Tell your friends when you like something. As more of these projects become profitable, more of them will exist in the world. The more that exist, the greater likelihood of nuanced depictions of black people. The more nuanced the depictions, the
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