Complete Hulu Celebrate Black Stories: Inspiration Trailer

VIDEO hulu Celebrate Black Stories: Inspiration TV commercial 2021 • 00:00 every black artist i've ever worked with
00:02 has mentored me in some
00:03 way shape or form the biggest mentor i
00:06 could point out
00:06 is my father who not only raised the
00:09 generation of
00:10 uh young black men from his work and his
00:12 art but when he wasn't busy doing that
00:14 he was busy imparting to me what it
00:16 means to be
00:17 a black man in america and this is
00:19 michelle obama
00:20 she supported my music and just me as a
00:22 person and brought me along
00:24 on the let girls learn campaign and i
00:25 just got to see the power and the
00:27 strength of a black woman going in and
00:29 making
00:29 waves of change a woman named victoria
00:32 alexander
00:33 she put out a book list for people who
00:35 wanted to learn
00:36 about anti-racism uh people who just
00:39 wanted to like hey if you have
00:40 white friends or non-black friends and
00:42 they're looking for books or
00:43 answers she's been doing incredible work
00:46 as an activist
00:46 the work of issa rae is just so
00:50 authentic and unapologetic she just
00:52 gives permission
00:53 for us to be ourselves and celebrate
00:56 life
00:57 just normalizing the millennial
01:00 awkward-ass
01:01 black experience a book by angela davis
01:03 called women race in class
01:05 she does such a thorough job at walking
01:07 you through the history of black women
01:09 specifically in america and how much
01:11 they've contributed to society
01:13 rizza has really inspired me in this
01:15 industry working with him or muting
01:16 american
01:17 saga has been exceptional sam anderson
01:19 and sharon couch
01:21 they're two individuals from my
01:22 childhood that
01:24 really invested in me a positive black
01:27 male role model
01:28 positive black woman role model they
01:31 instilled in me hard work
01:32 they always told me they believed in me
01:33 and i have carried that on through
01:35 adulthood
01:36 and in my career my brother luty ben
01:39 lay has a production company called
01:41 looty media and it's a black production
01:42 company and they made a show called max
01:44 you can watch it now on hulu he was an
01:46 example
01:47 of diversifying in front and behind the
01:48 camera definitely my mom
01:50 my mother and my aunt and my grandmother
01:53 my mother runs her own business my
01:55 father
01:55 went from being a gas meter reader in uh
01:58 seattle
01:59 to an executive here in new york city i
02:01 think we're in a really
02:02 interesting place where the idea of
02:06 mentorship
02:06 and elevating of voices is no longer
02:09 traditional i feel like we're doing that
02:11 for
02:12 each other actively on an equal plane i
02:15 think that's what's so beautiful about
02:16 it is you're seeing
02:17 filmmakers who are brand new mentoring
02:20 studio execs on how to tell stories
02:24 everyone knows about rosa parks but what
02:26 about claudette colvin
02:27 everyone knows about martha king but a
02:29 lot of people know a lot about john
02:30 lewis
02:31 or the fact that one in every four
02:33 cowboys was actually black black people
02:35 can go to space
02:36 yeah black people can fight dragons why
02:38 why do they always gotta be slaves for
02:40 some reason
02:40 doesn't make sense more black fantasy
02:42 more black
02:43 superheroes i want to see stories of
02:45 love of connection
02:47 of family i want trans black stories i
02:50 want
02:51 gay black stories i want more black
02:53 women stories
02:54 let's focus on sharing more stories
02:56 about black education the ones that
02:58 showcase the range of our humanity
03:00 that's the ups and the downs the highs
03:02 and the lows
03:02 and we'll get authenticity the more that
03:05 we get as many different people within
03:07 positions of power within this industry
03:09 as we possibly can and that's people
03:10 behind the camera
03:11 that's people writing the stories that's
03:13 people directing stories
03:14 that's people producing the stories
03:16 we're in this together every month is
03:18 black history month yeah
03:19 look out for your brothers and sisters - advertsiment spot 2021