Overlooked (obituary feature)
Overlooked is a recurring feature in the obituary section of "The New York Times", which contains posthumous obituaries honoring "remarkable people" whose deaths had been overlooked by editors of that section since its creation in 1851. The feature was first introduced on March 8, 2018 for International Women's Day, where the "Times" published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its introduction, it was  admitted that the paper's obituaries had been "dominated by white men", and that the project was intended to help "address these inequities of our time". In May 2018, it was reported that the "Times" had partnered with Anonymous Content and Paramount Television to develop a drama anthology franchise based on the feature, with each season chronicling a notable woman. List of honorees. Black History Month (February 2019). During February 2019, in honor of Black History Month, the paper published obituaries for "a prominent group of black men and women" who were not examined at the time of their deaths . Padnani wrote that readers' suggestions about whom to write "have yielded some of the most-read obituaries". Series. In April 2019, Netflix and Higher Ground Productions (the production company founded by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama) announced that they would be adapting "Overlooked" into a scripted anthology series. The series would be produced by Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions and Joy Gorman Wettels of Anonymous Content. Musical. In May 2019, The Waa-Mu Show at Northwestern University presented a new, student-written musical based on Amisha Padnani and the Overlooked series, entitled "For the Record".