Is It Fair to Accuse Filmmaker John Ridley of Erasing Black Women?

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker and writer John Ridley has caused a stir by casting an Asian actress, Freida Pinto, at the center of his new Showtime series Guerrilla, a story about black activists in 1970s London. Youth Radio reporter Riley Lockett interviewed Ridley during the San Francisco Film Festival screening of the premier episode of Guerrilla.

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