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The past few years have ushered in a “Black renaissance” on American television, with Black artists starring in and creating more shows than ever before. In Canada, though, it might as well still be 1998, when there were so few Black characters on TV that I, a Black girl growing up in a predominantly white suburb, would cling to any Black character — always in a supporting role, never the star — who wasn’t a one-note stereotype.