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The Black List And Google Continue Collaboration With Their New Black Voices Fellowship


The Black List and Google today revealed the four writers who were selected as the inaugural Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellows.

Additional writer mentors included Kay Oyegun ( This Is Us), Karen Joseph Adcock ( The Bear), Amanda Idoko ( Breaking News In Yuba County) Joy C. Mitchell ( Bridgerton), Felicia Pride ( Grey’s Anatomy), Gia Gordon ( Law And Order) Davia Carter ( Queen of the South), and Jon Dorsey ( This Is Us). “In March of 2021, McKinsey & Company released a study estimating that Hollywood misses out on $10 billion every year due to anti-Black bias,” said Black List founder Franklin Leonard. Logline: A lifelong wild child returns to her sleepy conservative hometown to raise her recently deceased best friend’s 9-year-old daughter, where she struggles to navigate the challenges of co-parenting, PTA meetings, and mean-girl moms without losing her own rebellious spirit.

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