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'Family Reunion' Creator Asks: "Was What Happened to My Show Racism?"

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My first year in Hollywood, I was a seat filler at the Emmys and I was fortunate to land in a good seat that remained empty most of the night.

But my excitement with sitting amongst the glitterati soon faded as I tired of the ridiculously long slog of the show. I vowed then that I would only return when I was a nominee.

That was 25 years ago. And since then the industry has changed a lot, but not much in terms of diversity and inclusion. Which sucks for me, because I am a Black woman.

Working in Jim Crow Hollywood means remembering when Friends announced that they were going to hire a Black writer after being criticized for making New York look whiter than Idaho.

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