We are living in an age where the man who made Thomas Jefferson black on Broadway had to prostrate before the crowd because he... *checks notes*.... didn't have appropriate African Lantinx representation in his movie about the neighborhood he grew up in.
The Little Mermaid and the question of racially-conscious casting
We are living in an age where the man who made Thomas Jefferson black on Broadway had to prostrate before the crowd because he... *checks notes*.... didn't have appropriate African Lantinx representation in his movie about the neighborhood he grew up in.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/15/1006606967/lin-manuel-miranda-apologizes-for-lack-of-afro-latinx-actors-in-in-the-heights