Actor Tim Reid is launching “The Legacy Of A Folks,” a streaming service specializing in the Black expertise from throughout the African diaspora.
Reid, who has been an actor, producer, and comic for greater than 40 years and has greater than 100 credit to his title, informed NBC 12 Legacy Of A Folks will present all facets of Black leisure.
“We have an effect on historical past, music, tradition, and science. I imply, there’s no space of life the place now we have not been concerned,” Reid stated.
The streaming platform will characteristic television reveals, documentary movies, and extra, giving multicultural creators throughout the globe the chance to inform their tales. Reid added the platform could have three channels within the coming weeks and hopes to have 4 or 5 on the platform internationally sooner or later.
Within the final a number of years, streaming platforms have exploded, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic stored everybody of their properties for days on finish. Nevertheless, many of those platforms wouldn’t have deep libraries of Black content material, together with ’90’s sitcoms, unbiased Black motion pictures, and performs.
Reid has been an agent of change in Hollywood for many years. When Reid auditioned for WKRP in Cincinnati, he sported a beard, setting off a debate on the prime ranges of the community, however he was allowed to maintain the beard in addition to an earring that created one other dialog.
“Man, you’ll’ve thought I shot a pet, however I stood my floor,” Reid informed NBC. “I wasn’t going to lose my job over it, and at last, they allowed me to put on an earring. Myself and Ed Bradley had been the one two Black folks on tv allowed to put on a beard and an earring for about two or three years. Hollywood was, and is, surprisingly some of the racist industries and locations you would ever discover.”
Reid, born in Norfolk, Virginia, and graduated from Norfolk State College, additionally wrote for WKRP and different reveals all through his profession. In 1997 Reid and his spouse Daphne Maxwell-Reid opened New Millennium Studios and filmed a number of productions there since.