While staffing statistics are not yet available for this year, female and minority writers and showrunners said they were seeing more people who look like them running rooms. The vast quantity of new programming has opened doors that did not exist a few years ago. Ms. Morgan said she knew several other women of color in the same position. “There are a lot of cool and great opportunities that I don’t think were there before,” she said. Courtney Kemp, the showrunner of “Power,” calls the phenomenon “Blackipedia, or Blacktionary,” and said, “It’s exhausting.”

Source: New York Times September 02, 2018 14:15 UTC