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by Akoto Ofori-Atta onOctober 11, 2011
Tracee Ellis Ross and Malcolm-Jamal Warner pair up in this modern take on black family 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 25, 2009
Dr. Sut Jhally talks about his study on “The Cosby Show,” Cosby’s deal with white America and Obama’s “inner Huxtable.”
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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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September 18, 2009
“The Cosby Show” was activist television, agitprop theater disguised as sitcom.
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