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Lena Waithe Takes on Outdoors So White
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Lena Waithe Takes on Outdoors So White

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'Master of None' Third Season to Focus on Black Lesbian Love Story

The third season will focus on the relationship between Denise, played by Lena Waithe, and her partner.

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Disney-Pixar’s First Openly LGBTQ+ Character Is Voiced by Lena Waithe

“I want to go make a whole other movie off of [her character] because we basically already have the material."

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Lena Waithe's New Show Is BET's First to Center Queer Character

Watch the trailer for ‘Twenties.’

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Lena Waithe Got Secretly Married at a Historic San Francisco Site

It’s Mrs. Lena D. Waithe from now on.

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Lena Waithe and AT&T Debut 4 Artists You Should Know

Your first look at the creatively ambitious new videos from musicians and directors hand-selected by the Emmy-winning writer/producer.

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Lena Waithe Joins Halle Berry for 'Boomerang' BET Spin-Off

Waithe and Berry will executive produce the series continuation of the 1992 film.

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Lena Waithe and Kid Fury Developing Gay Black Comedy Series for HBO

The pair will co-executive produce with Fury as writer.

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OUT100: Lena Waithe, Artist of the Year

"If I wasn’t a queer black woman, I don’t know if I would have been standing on that stage. I hoped that they could see through me that when you tell your story, when you live your authentic life, only good things will come from it."

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Here's Your First Look at Lena Waithe's Show The Chi

The Emmy winner just brought her Chicago drama series to Showtime.

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Lena Waithe on Her Emmy Win, the Power of ‘90s TV & MoMA’s 'Black Intimacy' Film Series

The Emmy-winner is hard at work on developing a new sitcom, writing her first drama, producing a provocative piece of original cinema, and appearing in a new Steven Spielberg movie. Master of it all. 

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Lena Waithe on Coming Out & Writing Master of None's Best Episode Yet

With a powerful scene in the new season of Aziz Ansari's hit Netflix series, the actor and writer relives the toughest talk she ever had with her mother. 

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Travel & Nightlife

Master of None's Lena Waithe Guides Us Through Hipster L.A.

The star of Netflix's Master of None shares her favorite L.A. spots.

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OUT100: Comedian Lena Waithe

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