Newsday ‘Empire’ on Fox: Authenticity of black experience brings huge success “There’s a perceived authenticity and cultural specificity — it is an African-American show, very much so,” says Carole Bell, professor of communications studies at Northeastern University, and author of the forthcoming “The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film.” Bell told me the show — about a thuggish record company executive (Terrence Howard), his ex-wife […]