1. It all started with Beyonce and her Superbowl performance, where she and her army of women dressed as Black Panthers made their fierce appearance blowing the internet.
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The 2016-17 season featured a record high percentage (20 percent) of black series regular characters on broadcast networks, according to GLAAD’s recent “Where We Are” survey. So, now we have the broadest, most varied, provocative portrayals of African-American life on TV ever. This is definitely what we can be proud of!
Orange Is the New Black, UnReal, Queen sugar, Insecure and black-ish are all just amazing.
3. Atlanta, FX’s existential hip-hop dramedy debuted as the most-watched basic cable comedy .
4. Don’t Forget About Luke Cage.
5. And of course Beyonce’s visual album
and her amazing sister Solange.
6. National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in September encouraging black people to learn more about their past and about the most outstanding black people in American History.
And there is so much more! This is our Black Power!