Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television

Credits include: Bee Movie, The Color Purple, The Princess and the Frog, Throw Momma from the Train and The Butler

Tyler Perry is an African-American actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, author, and songwriter. Already a successful artist in Southern theater, Perry began to make national celebrity status in 2005 with the release of his first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In 2009, Perry was ranked by Forbes magazine as the sixth highest-paid man in Hollywood. He has won critical praise for playing Madea, a mentally strong woman who handles adversity...(Wikipedia)

Credits include: American Fiction, Hanging Up, Black-ish, Common People and Candy Cane Lane

Credits include: Crossroads, Grey's Anatomy, Inventing Anna, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Credits include: All in the Family, Sr., The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son and The Night They Raided Minsky's

A filmmaker, marketer and film distributor, Ava DuVernay made her feature film debut with the documentary This in the Life (2008), a history on hip hop movement that flourished in Los Angeles in the 1990's. This was followed by series of television music documentaries which included My Mic Sounds Nice (2010) which aired on BET. (imdb)

Credits include: Ready Player One, Onward, Master of None, Queen & Slim and Bad Hair

Credits include: Barbie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, American Fiction, Vengeance and The Hate U Give

Cord Jefferson is an American writer and director. After studying at the College of William & Mary he started a career in journalism and wrote for numerous publications before becoming an editor at Gawker until 2016. Jefferson transitioned to working as a writer for television. (Wikipedia)

Credits include: Don't Try to Understand: A Year in the Life of Earl 'DMX' Simmons, Drive with Swizz Beats and Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television