Empire and Black-ish show why there needs to be deep minority representation within i

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As James Poniewozik points out, “series like Black-ish and Empire can pass a sort of racial version of the Bechdel Test, the feminist-criticism measure of whether a story has two female characters who talk to each other about something besides a man: having minority characters talk about race in a way that’s not always in relation to white people.” PLUS: With Empire, TV is finally tackling the intersection of race and class, and Empire has become the most aggressively political soap in TV history.