Discovery, Inc. is the #1 pay TV portfolio in the U.S., reaching 1 in 3 US TV households on an average night, and for the first time in its history, will simulcast a program across all of its 19 U.S. brands, including top networks OWN, Discovery, HGTV, ID, Food Network and TLC.
Featured guests include politician Stacey Abrams, journalist Charles M. Blow; Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms; Academy award-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“When They See Us,” “13th”, “Queen Sugar”), professor and author Jennifer Eberhardt (author of “Biased”); journalist and Pulitzer prize-winning founder of the “1619 Project” Nikole Hannah-Jones; historian and author Ibram Kendi (“How to be an Anti-Racist”), award-winning actor David Oyelowo (“Selma”), Color of Change founder Rashad Robinson; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) national board member Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
On Thursday, Oyelowo recounted a previous encounter at the premiere of Selma where the cast and crew donned shirts that read, “I Can’t Breathe” since the event coincided with the NYPD killing of Eric Garner.
According to Oyelowo, the fact that the Selma crew were wearing the shirts caused a bit of a stir with Academy members, who called the film’s studio and its producers accusing them of “stirring shit” and threatened not to vote for the film in retaliation.
This threat materialized in reality as Selma may have gotten a nomination for Best Picture that year, but that very fact only further highlighted the other snubs in categories such as Best Director (for DuVernay), Best Actor (for Oyelowo) or any of the other top categories.
