ATX Festival 2021: Black TV Creatives Discuss What Still Needs to Be Done in the Industry

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021 Laura Sirikul

Celebrating all things television, the ATX festival was virtual again this year with a lineup filled with wonderful television series as well as discussions by leaders in television. One of the many panel conversations had a very serious conversation about race discussions in television called Television in an Era of Racial Reckoning, hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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Of Fear and Fake Diversity

January 4, 2016April 21, 2016 Guest N.O.C.

by Lexi Alexander | Originally posted at Lexi-Alexander.com

2015 was an interesting year for me. After finally getting back behind the camera at the end of the summer to shoot The CW’s Arrow, I found myself a couple of months later in a Federal building in downtown Los Angeles, trying to convince half a dozen security guards to let me make my EEOC appointment despite my expired driver’s license.

Luckily ACLU lawyer Melissa Goodman, the patron saint of women directors, was with me and was able to convince the no-nonsense guards that I wasn’t a threat.

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