Steven Universe
Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It is Cartoon Network's first animated series to be created solely by a woman.[1]
Synopsis
Steven Universe is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delmarva, where the Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple and protect humanity from monsters and other threats. The Gems are ageless alien warriors who project female humanoid forms from magical gemstones at the core of their being. The Crystal Gems comprise Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven—a young, half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Crystal Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. As Steven tries to understand his gradually expanding range of powers, he spends his days with his father Greg, his best friend Connie, his magical pet lion, other residents of Beach City, and the Gems. He explores the abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form new, more powerful personalities.[2]
Black Empowerment
This PSA is the second of a four-part ongoing series of anti-racism content featuring "Steven Universe" characters, rolling out bimonthly. With don't deny it, defy it played in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes In a new public service announcement that began running on the network beginning Dec. 3, the character asks a classroom of students who invented the lightbulb. "Thomas Edison," the students respond. That's not entirely true. Pearl reveals that the invention could be more rightly attributed to Lewis Howard Latimer, the Black inventor responsible for creating the filament inside the bulb. "We're not going to mention why he invented the filament? To create a better standard of living for people who had just been freed from slavery?" she says. "Are we going to ask about why kids are learning about Thomas Edison and not learning about Lewis Latimer?" Pearl — who is a "Gem," essentially meaning that she is an alien being that exists as a magical gemstone projecting into a holographic body — flips through a textbook in disbelief. Where are the Black Roman warriors? Black classical musicians? The Black cowboys? The Black fighter pilots? These people all existed in history, but are nowhere to be found in the book's pages.[3]
References
- ↑ Steven Universe. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 17 2021.
- ↑ Steven Universe. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 17 2021.
- ↑ Towers, Andrea. Cartoon Network Doesn’t Hold Back in Scathing Anti-Racism PSA. The Wrap. Retrieved January 17 2021.