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