Day 18 of Black History Month challenge: One black history post everyday for the entire month. . . Shonda Rhimes, who grew up in Chicago as the child of a college professor and university administrator, came from a family that emphasized reading. Originally she thought she wanted to be a novelist, but after seeing Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway and the play The Colored Museum, she started to favor theater. . . After graduating from Dartmouth in 1991, Rhimes headed to film school at the University of Southern California, where she says she “discovered an entirely new way of telling stories. A way that suited me. A way that brought me joy.” After film school she worked as an assistant on various projects, eventually writing the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for HBO in 1998, followed by the short film Blossoms and Veils that same year as well as feature films Crossroads in 2002 and Princess Diaries 2 in 2004. . . Her career as one of television’s most successful showrunners began when ABC purchased medical drama Grey’s Anatomy in 2003. By the end of its first season in 2005, over 20 million viewers tuned into the Emmy-winning drama each week, and Rhimes became the first black woman to showrun a successful primetime drama on a broadcast network. What Shonda Rhimes possesses is this extraordinary instinct and compass for what our audience needs . . #howtogetawaywithmurder #shondarhimes #greysanatomy #scandal #netflixdeal #abcnetwork #universitypark #shondaland #blackhistoryiseverywhere #tvshowedit (at University Park, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8uPMKvgSm1/?igshid=19apu9xuwrvog
