16 Movies You Didn't Know Were Written By Non-Black Writers

Following the release of The Woman King, many were in an uproar because the film was written by a white woman, Dana Stevens. And many claimed they would not see the film based on this fact alone.

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Now while it is completely understandable to be angry that a white person is writing Black characters and telling our experiences. Especially when Hollywood isn’t in short supply of BIPOC writers. The reality is, they have written some movies that we quote on a daily and deem classics.

According to a report done by Color of Change, there are only 4.8% Black writers in Hollywood writers’ rooms out of 234 series examined and within those rooms only 17% of the rooms include one Black writer, 17% have 2 or more Black writers but 64% of those rooms have not one Black person writer in them. This is out of a total of 3877 writers.

This information is only including TV shows but the diversity and disparity is still disgustingly alarming. Let’s do something about this.

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As you mull over that, check out movies you didn’t know were written by non-Black writers. The movies include films that are written by a white writer or majority of the writers are white.