Kyla Pratt Represented Black Girls Through Roles I Still Think About Today
, a classic Disney Channel cartoon that as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, and One on One, which October 15th.Pratt’s early work, as both an animated character and on-screen teenager, was all about authentically showing a Black girl's navigation through life and challenging the traditional, white family structures we'd been accustomed to seeing on TV for decades. They aren't the only parts Kyla Pratt played that mirrored her life as a growing millennial (and mine). She emerged in the early '90s as a child star, making appearances on shows like Living Single, Family Matters, Friends, and Sister Sister, always playing outspoken characters—she was never cast as the meek, Black girl in the shadows.