For years, African Americans have been talking about the underrepresentation of black people in films and series’, and how it is unfair. Well, have you noticed that Netflix has a whole category dedicated to black stories? That is because Netflix is showing plenty of representation for black people. A USC study has come out saying that 22.7 percent of Netflix films and series have a black lead/co-lead, 19.5 of these films/series had a black cast. Not only that, but Netflix is working with black creators to write these stories, so the number of black directors and writers for Netflix has increased as well. This is parallel to what is happening in the grant funding industry. Over the last nine (9) months, M.H.M. & Associates Enterprise has tracked $400M being dedicated and directed to black led and owned businesses and non-profits via grants. Hopefully with Netflix being one of the biggest media streaming companies, other companies will follow suit and the same would also be great if other grant funders followed suit as well.
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