Insights

Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids

Featuring educational lessons in each episode, the show dealt with issues commonly faced by children, ranging from first loves and personal hygiene to more serious themes including racism, STD’s, abuse and death. The gang typically plays a song, summarizing the show’s lesson.

Big Brother Almighty

Directed by Spike Lee, School Daze explores several issues within the BlackAmerican community such as colorism, elitism, classism, political activism, hazing, groupthink, female self-esteem, social mobility, and hair texture bias— all against the backdrop of an historically black college.

Antiracist Baby

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s children’s book, which already has been featured in Netflix’s preschool series Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, will be adapted into a series of musical animated shorts that will focus on the nine steps to being antiracist.

James Baldwin

I Am Not Your Negro is a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.

Ava DuVernay

Founded in 2011 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, ARRAY is a Peabody award-winning arts and social impact collective dedicated to narrative change. arraynow.com