Netflix adds Black Lives Matter category.
Netflix adds Black Lives Matter category
In response to ongoing movements for social justice reform in the United States, Netflix has added a Black Lives Matter category to highlight black artists and stories.
The category includes titles that have been circulated widely in recent weeks, including Ava Duvernay's 13th and When They See Us, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Justin Simien's Dear White People, and many more.
Mere days before this, 2011's controversial The Help rose on the Netflix charts, which may have prompted action from the company's end (The Help is absent from the BLM category, though the category does include David France's The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson, which has been criticized for capitalizing on the work of a black trans woman, Reina Gossett).
As Netflix notes in the tweet, this is a curated list of black storytelling, which means that while some titles are nonfiction or focused on racial justice, others are narrative fiction or pure entertainment.
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ReplyDeleteDoes all this have to happen for them to put in?
ReplyDeleteCan we get Jordan Peele's "Us" on Netflix?
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Thats more of a contract issue with the distributor
DeleteOK. But instead of just curating the relatively few we’ve managed to fight to make over the years, FUND new Black films and TV series. HIRE Black creatives, and not just actors. Writers. Directors. DPs. Editors. Make a commitment to giving us new opportunities.
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DeleteThen bring back “A Different World”
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Deletestart hiring leading darkskin afrocentric Black actresses with good stories and then we can talk about black storytelling
ReplyDeleteHighlighting is a good start.
ReplyDeleteNext step would be investing in stories that should be told, that need to be told, and telling them in their entirety - read: not cancelling them because they are not generating enough views / money.
And support creators who stand for this.