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How ‘Girlfriends’ Paved the Way For Black Women on Modern TV

With Mara Brock Akil’s Girlfriends coming to Netflix, we got three Black women culture writers to dissect the legacy of the classic sitcom. Girlfriends was Mara Brock Akil’s ambitious foray into the Black television canon. Based in Los Angeles, the sitcom explored the messy, funny, and sometimes disastrous happenings of four very different Black women. … Read moreHow ‘Girlfriends’ Paved the Way For Black Women on Modern TV

The 25 Best Black TV Show Theme Songs of All Time

  From the iconic Good Times theme to grown-ish‘s soothing intro, here are the 25 best Black TV show theme songs of all time. Black sitcoms have given pop culture some of the best theme songs in the history of TV. Whether they are original songs, covers, or instrumentals, classic theme songs have stood the … Read moreThe 25 Best Black TV Show Theme Songs of All Time

Black Women Television Writers are the Great Memorialists of Our Time

Black women television writers like Issa Rae, Michaela Coel, and Lena Waithe have created a new genre of TV, where Black womanhood gets explored in ways that had not previously been seen on screen. In 2012, The Atlantic published a piece about the future of TV-as-Literature. Culture writer Michael Agresta noted how, 15 years prior, … Read moreBlack Women Television Writers are the Great Memorialists of Our Time

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