Issa Rae Explains Her Comedy Mission in ‘NYT’ Web Series ‘Off Color’

Here’s another installment of NYT’s new web series Off Color highlighting Issa Rae, the creator and star of The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl who channeled her frustrations with the lack of black characters on television into creating and producing more of the content she wants to see in the mainstream: “We’re doing great things, but there’s still a desire for acknowledgement. And until that happens in some major way that’s outside of slave movies and slave shows and reality shows, then I won’t be satisfied.�