Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
A Different World: Representation On Screen, In The Booth And Behind The Camera Then and Now
essence.comThe New York Times reported that there were 15 Black primetime television comedies including Living Single, Family Matters, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
After the spike in positive Black stories onscreen thanks to United Paramount Network (UPN) in the mid-’90s to early 2000s, which gave us shows like All of Us, Girlfriends and One on One, a merger with The WB brought us The CW Network – home to The Game and Everybody Hates Chris.
Over the years, representation began to decline and the showcasing of sitcom TV characters who spoke, looked, and thought like us began to disappear.
What happened to our shows that demonstrate our diverse experience within our community? Stories directed, produced, written, casted by and starring Black women
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