Baratunde Thurston Wants To Teach Us “How To Be Black” In New Animated Series For ABC Network

Baratunde Thurston is adapting his memoir to be a new primetime animated series headed to the ABC Network in association with Black-ish showrunner Courtney Lilly writing and producing. The series is coming from Cinema Gypsy Productions with 20th Television Animation producing. The name of the memoir is How To Be Black which follows Baratunde’s upbringing in 1980’s Washington D.C.

If ordered to series, this would be the ABC Network’s first adult animated series since Ginger Snaps that premiered in 2017 and was excellent. Other series like The Goode Family, Imaginary Mary, The Critic, Clerks, and Dinosaurs have all been franchises that have been on the network with varying levels of success. This comes off of the recent news that Victoria Alonso has recently been promoted to President Of Physical, Post Production, VFX and Animation at Marvel Studios, so Disney has been continuing it’s 2021 push into older-skewing animation and intends to take the industry more seriously in the future.