African American Identity in Media

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Rating: TV-PG

Rating: PG

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

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Rating: TV-14 (Mature Audiences) 

This “Black Panther” season, we also celebrate another iconic black superhero. Luke Cage is literally indestructible and is constantly trying to live an unassuming life in Harlem. Instead, he’s pulled into a battle for his neighborhood while also confronting his past and the sordid experiment that gave him his powers. -HuffPost

Rating: TV-MA (Mature Audiences)  

Based on the 2014 movie of the same name, this Netflix original chronicles how students of color navigate race and racism at an Ivy League school. The first season has a 100-percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Netflix has officially renewed it for a second season. -HuffPost

Rating: TV-MA (Mature Audiences)

Season 2 Episode 12: Always Bet Black

Rating: TV-PG 

PBS: 10 "Must Watch" Black History Documentaries

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A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul." -IMDB

Rating: NR

As CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon, leads his family in both drama and music in this production about hip-hop’s royal family. But his reign as patriarch is challenged when his ex, Cookie, returns from prison demanding a piece of the throne she helped build. The saga is in its fourth season and is still one of the highest-rated dramas on Fox. 

Rating: TV-14 (Mature Audiences) 

An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

Rating: G

"The Proud Family" follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.

Rating: TV-Y

A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.

Rating: TV-PG

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Everybody Hates Chris is an American period sitcom that is based on the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock during the 1980s. The show is set between 1982 and 1987, although Rock himself was a teenager between 1978 and 1984, being born in 1965.The show's title parodies the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Rating: TV-PG

A teenage girl periodically receives brief psychic visions of the near future. Trying to make these visions come true results in trouble, and hilarious situations, for the girl and her friends.

Rating: TV-G

This is the story of a black teenager named Miles, who has to go on a class field trip to the museum of learning what Martin Luther King, Jr. did for humanity, he thinks that he'd rather play baseball. But the trip turns into an exciting adventure when he and his best friend, Randy, who's white, are sent back in time meeting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at several points during his life.

Rating: TV-G

Kenan and Kel. Two best friends who live in Chicago are always dragged down by Kenan's get rich quick schemes while orange soda loving buddy Kel is dragged along but tends to mess things up

Rating TV-Y7

The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem.

Rating: TV-PG

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Based on the book with the same name by Kathryn Stockett.

Rating: PG-13

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family. The is a 2008 version and a 1961 version. The films are based on the play written by Lorraine Hansberry.

Rating: PG-13

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On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Rating: R

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

Rating: PG

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about their ancestors. Genealogical detective work, DNA analysis and the study of historical documents fills in the gaps of history and reveals emotional tales of African American heritage and survival.

Rating:PG

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Noah's South African roots and upbringing merge into his recent American experience making for funny and human juxtapositions and observations.

Trevor Noah's Netflix one hour standup special. Amazing comedy covering race in America, immigration politics, international relations and more.

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