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Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait'

There's a lot of me and Shah, but I think actually there's a lot of Shah in all of us, more than we like to admit. And really the show is about this feeling that life sometimes feels like one big audition.

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Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.