Ryan Murphy and WhenTheySeeUs win big at AAFCA Television Honors
were among the honorees as the show marked a likely first step in a long campaign of award season glory for many of the winners.
“We decided that this year we would create a standalone event because TV is generating so much relevant work," he said. "There certainly seems to be an openness by the industry to tell diverse stories from African Americans and from other minorities and that’s a good thing because everyone’s perspective counts and hopefully contributes to a better understanding of the condition of our lives.”and she quoted the late author Toni Morrison in her acceptance speech.
Murphy was honored with the Icon Award and he spoke about how an incident that occurred while filming an episode of“We had a director scheduled for episode six but she fell out because she had to have surgery and I said ‘well, I’ll just do it.’ And what I realized was that was wrong because that episode however good that it was, was really about Marcia Clark and I should have had in my Rolodex 50 women I could have called immediately and said ‘Hey, come do this for me.
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