Mara Brock Akil Talks Creating Room “For More Voices, For Fuller Humanity, For Stories That Once Waited Quietly At The Margins” As She Accepts PGA’s Norman Lear Achievement Award

While accepting the Norman Lear Achievement Award at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday night, Mara Brock Akil reflected on lessons she’s taken from the legacy of the award’s namesack. “What I’ve learned, and what Norman understood, is this. Stories are infrastructure. They shape how we see ourselves. They shape how we see each other, […]