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Hollywood’s Historic Strikes

Hollywood is on strike. How will this historic double strike affect the already dwindling numbers of writers of color in television and feature-film writers’ rooms? First, Our Body Politic guest host Callie Crossley speaks with award-winning television writer Erika Green Swafford about her career, what it’s like to be the only Black woman in a writer’s room and the need for creating spaces for writers of color in TV. Then, TV and feature-film writers Jeane Phan Wong and Sylvia Franklin join Callie for a roundtable breaking down the strikes, including the day-to-day of being on the picket line.see more
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