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Podcast: uncommon good with pauli reese
Episode: Don P Hooper: Keep Fighting. Keep Fighting. Keep Fighting.
Description: Don P Hooper is a WGA-union screenwriter, an actor, and an author, whose new book True True hits bookstores on Tuesday, August 1.
Previously he contributed a story to Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Manhood.
CONTENT WARNING: trauma, racism, labor, explicit language, hate-based violence
We talk about:
The WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike
Shutting down productions across the country
How you can support writers and actors on strike
The importance of good mentors and collaborators
Tenacity and resistance as quintessential parts of black/African-American life
The novel writing process
Don's first novel, True True
Questions of goodness, identity, and morality of AI
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