No Black Pain Projects: Marsai Martin Creates Space for Joy
Black actors settling for trauma roles should be a thing of the past
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5 min readApr 15, 2021
After winning two NAACP Image Awards this past year, Marsai Martin recently turned heads in an interview. When asked what type of projects she wanted to produce next, she made it clear. She would say no to any “Black pain projects.” Even at 16, the…