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Gayle Wald

Gayle Wald is the author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power TV (2015) and Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (2007). She teaches English and American Studies at George Washington University. icon

Virtual Roundtable on Women Directors

By Sarah Kessler, Gayle Wald, Noah Berlatsky, Ismail Muhammad, Irvin J. Hunt, Mary Zaborskis, & Debashree Mukherjee

It’s no secret that Hollywood has a diversity problem, especially when it comes to hiring directors ...

Virtual Roundtable on “Empire”

By Gayle Wald, Stephen Best, Erica R. Edwards, & Eric Darnell Pritchard

After it debuted last January on Fox, Empire quickly became one of the most talked-about shows on television. Its Shakespearean portrayal of family life, its stylized window onto the hip-hop ...

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