Conclusion of article: In the workshops, the actors were encouraged to probe their own experiences and feelings about race, no matter how buried, and some of what was uncovered has made its way into the script. "It took tremendous courage to be in those sessions," he said. "The actors had to exhume a lot of suppressed stuff. Luckily we had two very good facilitators along the way." Schwimmer catapulted to stardom on NBC's "Friends," the decidedly whitebread sitcom that only began to introduce a black character in recent episodes--after a decade on the air. Of course TV is not real...