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105. Rooting for Everyone Black - Benoni Tagoe & Issa Rae's Hoorae Media

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The Rise and Fall of Acra Black Girl

Bononi was working with ESA to build out East Hooray productions now known as Hooray Media, a multifaceted entertainment media company. By 2011 they were getting record label deal offers pretty much from every major label. All that growing led to Acra Black Girl eventually getting some attention from the folks at HBO. They were interested in using the comedic story elements from the web series to build a new series for their service.

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