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by Katti Gray onJanuary 27, 2012
The legendary artist talks to The Root about his new book and how black folks need to help themselves.
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by Genetta M. Adams onOctober 28, 2011
It's OK that Reed Between the Lines is an idealized depiction of black life.
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by Abdul Ali onJune 18, 2011
One writer laments the invisibility of complex black-father characters on television.
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by Helena Andrews onMarch 3, 2011
Maybe the Cos was right: Women (sometimes) want to be rescued. But you can be an independent woman and still harbor fantasies of being saved by Liam Neeson. After all, we're talking Liam Neeson.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onFebruary 17, 2011
Actor-comedian approves of Katie Couric’s suggestion that a Muslim version of The Cosby Show could combat Islamophobia.
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February 13, 2011
There's something majestic about seeing black love on-screen. Between Cliff and Clair's romantic moments on their couch and Dwayne Wayne squealing "Baby, please, please," there's plenty of love to go around this Valentine's Day.
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by Zaheer Ali onJanuary 6, 2011
The seminal TV show rode a wave of black achievement to challenge racial stereotypes. But Katie Couric's well-intentioned statements to the contrary, American Muslims will need more than a situation comedy to counter Islamophobia.
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by Martin Johnson onAugust 26, 2010
The memoirist-philanthropist-TV producer talks about her debut novel, Bill Cosby, Lena Horne and the philanthropic life.
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September 20, 2009
Clair Huxtable came into my life in 1984, my junior year of high school. And from that moment forward, she was a role model for me and all I aspired to be: a wife, a mom, a successful attorney and a well-poised, fabulously dressed, attractive black woman.
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by Teresa Wiltz onSeptember 18, 2009
“The Cosby Show” was activist television, agitprop theater disguised as sitcom.
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