TY - BOOK ID - 136843238 TI - Empire and black images in popular culture PY - 2018 SN - 1476632502 9781476632506 9781476673677 1476673675 PB - Jefferson DB - UniCat KW - African Americans on television. KW - Empire (Television program : 2015) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136843238 AB - "FOX's musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers weekly. A "hip-hopera" inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black popular culture Renaissance yet has stirred controversy in the black community"-- ER -