ESSENCE MAGAZINE How Inclusive Storytelling Is Finally Having Its Moment: By Briana Holt featuring Ariona Beninato
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“ The casting department is “human resources” where it’s their job to “get what the hiring manager wants at the end of the day.” She says “Some clients have been so overt about their colorist preferences that they’ve included a lighter skin tone preference in their descriptions for Black female roles.”