Nkechi Okoro Carroll Wants To 'Celebrate' HBCU Culture With 'All American: Homecoming'
Whitley Gilbert and Ron Johnson with no idea their storylines on A Different World reflected real people and experiences. “I don’t even think I realized that HBCUs were a thing,” the All American: Homecoming showrunner told ESSENCE. “I was born in New York, but my family is Nigerian and we moved back to Nigeria when I was five. Most of what I knew about American culture, even though I was born here, was what I saw on TV.“I just loved that it was Black characters of all shades and types, and backgrounds that were all at this higher learning institution,” she added.