'“It’s not, ‘Let’s show black people in Chicago in a positive light,’” Lena Waithe told Entertainment Weekly about her new Showtime drama The Chi. “I want to show people in a human light.”
A different writer might have visibly struggled to “represent the race”, particularly in a place like Chicago, so often used as shorthand for “the violence problem in America”. Yet Waithe’s show is unselfconscious in its portrayal of a community of black people whose stories could be seen a...
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