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Why This Black Filmmaker Is Squashing His Tyler Perry Beef

‘NOT BLACK ENOUGH’

Filmmaker Justin Simien tells the Daily Beast that making nice with Tyler Perry is all part of the larger mission behind his new docuseries “Hollywood Black.”

Eboni Boykin-Patterson
Eboni Boykin-Patterson 

Entertainment Reporter

Justin Simien
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
Eboni Boykin-Patterson

Eboni Boykin-Patterson

Entertainment Reporter

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eboni.boykin-patterson@thedailybeast.com

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