IL, MN, MI, OH, WI, IA, MO, KS, IN, ND, SD, OK, NE
West:
NM, CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, MT, ID, UT, NV, AZ, WY, CO
Notes
[1] The Directors Guild of America reports that just 4 percent of its director membership is black. The Writers Guild of America says that 4.5 percent of members employed as television writers and 3.2 percent of members employed as film writers are black (2007). Paris Barclay, Director-Showrunner of “In Treatment” and co-chair of the DGA’s Diversity Task Force, estimates that up to 82 percent of all episodes in television are “directed by Caucasian men.”
[2] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, January 14, 2008.
[3] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, March 24, 2008.
[4] First published in Black Rennaissance Noire, Volume 9, Issue 2–3, Fall 2009/Winter 2010.
[5] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, June 24, 2008.
[6] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, August 11, 2008.
[7] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, October 24–26, 2008.
[8] Boogie Man, The Lee Atwater Story, was shown in thirty-five cities before election day. For more information go to www. boogiemanfilm.com.
[9] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, November 5, 2008.
[10] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, April 7, 2008.
[11] This satire was first published at Counterpunch.org, on November 2, 2009.
[12] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, July 27, 2009 after Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s arrest by a policeman in front of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[13] A version of this essay was first published at Counterpunch.org, August 6, 2009
[14] ACORN was found to have broken no laws by a congressional report issued in December 2009.