Ever notice how often the “hero” in Black and Indigenous stories… isn’t Black or Indigenous? For the longest time in Hollywood, progress, freedom, or success had to be led with a white face. There are so many examples. I even saw it recently in Shōgun, an excellent show on FX- as Japan navigates its own power struggles, in comes a white outsider positioned as a key figure in shaping outcomes. Same with Avatar. Or Green Book, a story rooted in the Jim Crow South on the survival tools Black communities created to help navigate the ugliness of a racist and bigoted South, yet told largely through the lens of a white driver. And on the flip side, when Black characters are centered, if they aren’t a drug dealer or gang member they’re often written as extraordinary in a different way—almost mystical, The Magical Black Actor or MBA. Think The Green Mile,Hancock, Blade, Django to name a few, It’s like telling Black and brown stories are not enough. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. But th...