The gaming world has the potential to reach out to so many people, so I don’t understand why there are so many games’ developers that chose to cut off an entire community from being represented. Whilst we’ve recently seen Black characters being included in new Spider Man games, if anything, this has highlighted how little…
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Who are your favourite Black characters in gaming?
My biggest problem with Black representation in sci-fi and fantasy gaming is that it tends to be unrealistic. Characters like Jax Briggs from Mortal Kombat, James Heller from Prototype 2, and Vivienne from Dragon Age (to name a few that come to mind) are all represented as Black characters who don’t face racism at all….
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Hollywood, the Academy, and race
Let’s start with a harrowing statistic. The first Academy Awards were hosted back in 1929, and since then over 3,000 awards have been handed out. Only 43 recipients were Black. There is no denying there is a huge disparity in the number of BIPOC creatives being nominated for the Academy Awards, with the peak of…
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Diversity in children’s and young person’s television
Black children cannot attest to the privilege of growing up with TV shows where characters continually resembled them. Racism is not inherent – it is taught, and it is often the subtle, unspoken discrepancies that can cause the most issues. Television should reflect the demographics of society, and so the lack of a prominent population…
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