Girlfriend—her first network show, a sitcom for UPN/The CW. A new millennium was on the horizon, and she wasn’t going to let the future begin without Black women front and center. “It was really simple for me," she tells Glamour. “I wanted Black women to feel seen.
I was tired of us playing in the background and, in some cases, we couldn’t even play in the background. I wanted Black women to see and enjoy their complexity, to see their beauty reflected.” When Girlfriends debuted in fall 2000, the TV landscape wasn’t nearly as inclusive as it is today: Friends was appointment viewing, and Sex and the City was cementing itself as a (melanin-devoid) cultural touchstone for young women around the world.
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