Life Lessons from Our Beloved Black Sitcom Characters

February 13th, 2011 - By Grace N. Edwards

I grew up in the ’90s during the golden age of the Black sitcom: Fresh Prince, The Cosby Show, Martin, Living Single, A Different World and the list goes on and on. You could see all kinds of Black faces and types on TV every night of the week. Over the years, the quantity and, in my opinion, the quality of our Black comedies have diminished. So, I like to reminisce on all the laughs I had and all the things I learned from my favorite Black sitcom characters. Here are just some of the them.

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    Thank you for taking the time to write this! Mucho.

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  • Melody

    My heart still melts when Dwayne Wayne says "Baby Please" at the wedding. OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH good memories!!!

  • maria

    Thank God for growing into your looks cause Terrance Howard look like a character from splice. I'm sure it helped build his character thou. Great actor!

  • http://twitter.com/ DT

    And Fresh Prince too ….(Aunt Viv – the original one)? Family Matters…(Harriet)?

  • Drew-Shane

    We're definitely missing quality programming all around the board. If that's the case, we can only imagine how it is for Blacks. I wish we had more TV sitcoms. Thank god for reruns!

  • Prissy

    I am truly grateful my parents had me in 1987 so that I was able to grow up with sensible television shows. Thanks for writing this article ;-)

  • Kia

    Fresh Prince!! I love Fresh Prince because it's not the stereotypical poor black family trying to make their way up. It shows a different story about black families and that it is possible to make it out of the "hood". In addition, I love the Fresh Prince because Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian took Will in as their own and helped him grow up to be an intelligent, balanced young black man. Usually, it seems to be some white person coming in to help the poor black boy get his life together. Fresh prince shows we can be our own supporters!! :)