Black Excellence in TV Shows Throughout The Years
In this post I would like to take a moment away from recognizing the wrong in representation of black women in TV shows and movies and shine some light on the TV shows and movies that do or did an amazing job showing black excellence. We all know in the 90s black excellence on television was at its peak shows like Family Matters, Living Single, The Bill Cosby Show, Moesha, A Different World, Sister Sister, etc. All of these shows gave the black community the break they were looking for, finally the community was able to see two parent households, middle class and upper class, educated, and talented people of color. In the 2000s shows such as Girlfriends, The Bernie Mac Show, The Parkers, etc. In the 2010s we received shows such as Scandal, Hit the Floor, The Game, Dear White People, Blackish, etc. Living Single is what many people refer to as the black version of the hit TV show Friends, even though it aired first. It consisted of a group of successful black friends who were all educa