Issa Rae
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‘Insecure’ Creator Issa Rae on Comedy in a Time of Crisis: ‘We Are More Than Our Trauma’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We don’t really get a lot of television shows that promote Black beauty, Black art, without having to have our burden be front and center all the time,” exec producer Prentice Penny says
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Beyond Blackface: Can Hollywood’s Reckoning on Race Lead to Substantive Change?
“Hollywood is being forced to look in the mirror and decide whether it wants to be on the right side of history,” UCLA Dean of Social Sciences Darnell Hunt says
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Emmy Contenders 2020, From Issa Rae to Jennifer Connelly (Exclusive Photos)
Stars and creators of the season’s biggest shows pose for StudioWrap
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Oge Egbuonu’s New Film ‘(In)visible Portraits’ Is a Love Letter to Black Women
WrapWomen LA Blog: “The making of this film rearranged me in the most beautiful way because it gave me permission to be my full self… it gave me permission to heal,” the filmmaker says
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Issa Rae, Dan Harmon and More on ‘Strange,’ ‘Efficient’ and ‘Exhausting on the Eyes’ Virtual Writers’ Rooms
“It’s way more efficient … in a way that I hate,” “Insecure” star and co-creator Issa Rae tells TheWrap
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Issa Rae, Dan Levy and Bette Midler to Star in HBO Quarantine Satire ‘Coastal Elites’
Directed by Jay Roach, “Coastal Elites” sees five characters dealing with politics amid the pandemic
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‘Self Made’ Co-Showrunner Elle Johnson Calls on Hollywood to Greenlight More Projects About Black Women from American History
WrapWomen LA Blog: “Historical stories are always a way to indirectly comment on the present…right now it’s important to strike while the iron is hot,” said Elle Johnson
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Why Issa Rae Made a Fictional True-Crime Series About a Missing Black Woman for ‘Insecure’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “People don’t necessarily care when black girls go missing. There have been documentaries about how people don’t care,” HBO comedy’s star and co-creator says
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‘Insecure’ Creator Issa Rae Asks ‘What the F– Is This’ After Trump Likes Tweet About Her Show
White House has not commented on the President’s apparent interest in HBO series about modern-day Black women
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‘The Lovebirds’ Film Review: Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae Can’t Make This Race Amazing
Nanjiani and Rae are funny and likable people who try very hard to bring some life to this enterprise, but the action is too preposterous for the laughs to make much headway
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Issa Rae Team for Backyard Wrestling Series in the Works at HBO
Mohamad el Masri is writer and executive producer
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Issa Rae Is Launching Season 4 of ‘Insecure’ With Virtual Block Party
DJ sets and a Q&A will stream on Instagram and Twitter before the show’s premiere on HBO
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Paramount’s ‘The Lovebirds’ With Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani Headed to Netflix
Comedy film was meant to premiere at SXSW and open theatrically on April 3
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‘The Lovebirds’ Stars Kumail Nanjiani, Issa Rae to Skip SXSW Film Premiere Over Coronavirus Concerns
Paramount’s comedy will still screen at the festival
