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#GlobesSoWhite? In TV categories, HFPA snubs 'When They See Us,' 'Watchmen,' more

When it came to honoring the best in television this year, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. could have nominated "When They See Us," a limited series about the so-called Central Park Five - a group of five black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted of rape and spent years in prison before their eventual exoneration.

The Netflix drama, co-written and directed by Ava DuVernay, deals with thorny, uniquely American issues of race and the criminal justice system

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