executive producer , in accepting the award for best limited series/special at the 6th (AFFCA) TV Honors Saturday afternoon, made a political plea to attendees as he and the producing team of the series, which includes wife , noted the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s historic meeting in the halls of the U.S.
Capitol building in 1964. “Sixty years later, let’s pick up the baton, let’s organize, let’s elect Vice President Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States,” Bythewood told guests. “And by any means necessary, let’s continue to realize the dream.
” ’s TV Honors was held Saturday at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in the same ballroom where the Academy were first held 95 years ago. The association presented a total of 15 awards recognizing achievements in television and streaming. and showrunner received one of the first major honors of the event: the Salute to Excellence Award.
Recounting how she fell in love with the 1982 musical comedy as a child, Okoro Carroll spoke of how her connection to the film as a consumer informs her persistence now as a storyteller. “I relay this story because I refuse to listen when I hear people tell me that our stories aren’t relatable. I refuse to listen when they say that our stories don’t travel, that they are too niche,” she said.
“The truth is, our stories are not only great TV, they are great business. They are universally relatable. Because if I, as a seven-year-old Nige.