Michaela Coel, seated, looking down at phone in a still from HBO’s “I May Destroy You”

The Michaela Coel Golden Globes Snub Is Hollywood’s Payback to a Dangerous Black Woman

Coel’s “I May Destroy You” deserved a nomination but power rallied to keep her out

Andrew Ricketts
5 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Michaela Coel is a one-of-one creator. She can write, act, sing, and imagine better than 99% of Hollywood’s leads. For the past five years, she’s produced at a breakneck pace without…

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Andrew Ricketts

I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.