Youtube unveiled some of the projects funded by the platform’s $100 million Youtube Black Voices Fund. Youtube Originals’ new content slate devoted to Black storytelling, announced Wednesday, includes several titles backed by the fund, which aims to support Black creators working on the platform.
“Those titles include Resist, a 12-part documentary series centered on organizers fighting L.A. County’s 2018 proposed jail expansion plan from executive producers including Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and filmmaker dream hampton and HBCU Homecoming 2020: Meet Me On The Yard, a livestreamed celebration of Homecoming at HBCUs”