In response to ongoing movements for social justice reform in the United States, Netflix has added a Black Lives Matter category to highlight black artists and stories.
When we say “Black Lives Matter,” we also mean “Black storytelling matters.”
With an understanding that our commitment to true, systemic change will take time – we're starting by highlighting powerful and complex narratives about the Black experience.
— Netflix (@netflix) June 10, 2020
The category includes titles that have been circulated widely in recent weeks, including Ava Duvernay's 13th and When They See Us, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Justin Simien's Dear White People, and many more.
Mere days before this, 2011's controversial The Help rose on the Netflix charts, which may have prompted action from the company's end (The Help is absent from the BLM category, though the category does include David France's The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson, which has been criticized for capitalizing on the work of a black trans woman, Reina Gossett).
Netflix's Black Lives Matter category page
Image: netflix screenshot / mashable
As Netflix notes in the tweet, this is a curated list of black storytelling, which means that while some titles are nonfiction or focused on racial justice, others are narrative fiction or pure entertainment.
June 10, 2020 at 10:24PM
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