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LA Times Today: What ‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO gets right about Black history

LA Times Today: What ‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO gets right about Black history

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From the mind of Julian Fellowes, who brought us Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age also chronicles a time of great wealth and great societal change, but one that is distinctly American.

L.A. Times entertainment writer Meredith Blake discusses the series and how it shines a light on the rarely illuminated community of New York’s Black elite in the 1880s.

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