a detrick

Black excellence, pure and simple. Anyone looking at Black representation on tv these days--Real Housewives, Love & Hiphop, etc--and wondering when it'll all get better should know that at one point it WAS better--much better. Platforming a whole slate of Black intelligentsia, poets, writers, thinkers, activists, singers & more, Soul! combined the political with the aesthetic and foregrounded Black America's relationship to itself, to Africa, to the diaspora, and to other marginalized groups, e.g., New York's Puerto Rican community. I don't know if tv gets any better than this, but I do know it's gotten a whole lot worse, especially as a deeply cemented white supremacist ideology which permeates media across all outlets ensure that viewers are led away from any understanding of the formidable intellectual underpinnings of Black America.