Whereas collection like “Buddies,” “The Workplace,” and “Parks and Recreation” — reveals wherein white characters merely exist for the sake of escapism and laughs — have existed for the reason that introduction of tv, comparable collection depicting life in Black America are few and much between. Too typically, Black TV characters come from damaged households and violent backgrounds, whereas scripts learn as if they’re trying to elucidate Blackness to a non-Black demographic. Watching reveals written about you however not for you is exhausting.
Similar to everybody else, Black folks expertise love and loss, makeups and breakups, highschool crushes, and friendship drama. But, our tales are sometimes stripped of any depth, left solely to revolve round what non-Black folks assume Black life is like. So, as a result of Black Pleasure, Black authors, and Black creators ought to be celebrated all yr spherical (not simply on Black holidays like Black Historical past Month and Juneteenth), listed below are 30 sitcoms, dramas, and animes about Black folks simply . . . being — no clarification wanted.
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