Here’s a look at the first episode of Season Two of The United Colors of Amani, which was conceived and produced by Amani Starnes, a real life actress based trying to make her way through the crazy world better known as Hollyweird.The Kansas City native and Yale graduate, who, aside from acting, also sings and choreographs, and has appeared in numerous independent films, TV commercials, plays, concerts, music videos, rock operas, and musicals, and who has worked with many notable names, including comedian/rapper Donald Glover, says she created the series because on her own experiences as an actress in L.A., and says that “growing up in a mixed race household in the very black and...
- 3/1/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The recently debuted Ask A Slave has made a splash thanks to the candid, thoughtful, and very funny way it discusses race in the United States. While Azie Mira Dungey's show has garnered lots of attention (including some from us), one of the actors in her show has launched a comedy web series of her own. Amani Starnes, who played a runaway slave in episode four of Ask of Slave, has launched The United Colors Of Amani, which chronicles her life as an "ethnically ambiguous" actress trying to find work in Hollywood. Like Ask A Slave, The United Colors of Amani finds most of its ammo in the uncouth lines unwitting individuals deliver to black people. For some examples of these lines, you could always rewatch 'S**t White Girls Say To Black Girls', which still stands as one of the better S**t Girls Say varieties. Or you could...
- 9/20/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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