Blackwashing History with Netflix

The non-black tales of Cleopatra and Queen Charlotte

So, was Cleopatra Black? We don’t know for sure, but we can be certain she wasn’t white like Elizabeth Taylor. We need to have a conversation with ourselves about our colorism, and the internalized white supremacy that Hollywood has indoctrinated us with.

Produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, African Queens, is a docuseries that “focuses on female…