Black Women are Leading the Revolution” (feat Debra Lee, Tessa Thompson, & Stephanie Allain)

On One with Angela Rye

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4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Episode 20 live from Sundance Film Festival in the season premiere, Angela has a candid conversation with industry heavyweights on the #metoo and #timesup movements. They also delve into the importance of Black women storytellers.

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0:00.0	Who are my children that are like born in the city but steady striving to do right
0:04.8	My people are the warriors, all we know is the fight, praise they see God and everything
0:09.6	got right here.
0:10.8	My name is Shastity Lord, I am the chief operating officer of Color of Change.
0:15.2	How many folks in here are familiar with Color of Change?
0:17.2	All right, great.
0:19.0	For those who are not, just want to anchor you a little bit.
0:22.8	Color of Change is the largest online racial justice organization in the country.
0:27.2	We started in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina.
0:31.6	As many of you know, there were a lot of reasons for Hurricane Katrina, there were structural
0:36.3	policy, but ultimately when our founder stepped back, what they really thought was there was
0:42.3	a constituency base in power who wasn't nervous about disappointing Black folk.
0:50.3	Color of Change deeply believes that when Black people win, we all win.
0:55.8	When Black people win, we all win.
0:57.7	We have seen it over and over in history.
1:00.7	It's not enough just to be present, it's not enough to just show up.
1:05.3	We work on translating and transferring that presence into power.
1:12.0	You know, last year, bringing it home a little bit, being at Sundance, we released a report
1:17.2	with UCLA, a wire on the Hollywood writer's room.
1:21.0	We looked at over 234 originally scripted shows, 234 originally scripted shows across 15
1:29.5	networks.
1:32.0	Do you know how many of them were led by Black writers?
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