And efforts over two decades to diversify the writers’ rooms at TV networks have largely failed, the report found. Two-thirds of the shows had no black writers. Black writers overall accounted for less than 5 percent of the 3,817 writers across the shows, even though black people make up 13 percent of the population. Those platforms, plus FX and Fox, were also the only ones that had shows with five or more black writers. White-dominated writers’ rooms are more likely to produce shows with stereotypical story lines and one-dimensional black “sidekicks” to white central characters.

Source: Washington Post November 06, 2017 12:07 UTC