A group of Black Panthers helped launch ‘The Jeffersons’ 50 years ago
The Jeffersons,” which debuted a half-century ago this year, presented the image of an upwardly mobile Black businessman, ...
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Who Is Still Alive From ‘The Jeffersons’?
The show, which ran from 1975 to 1985, was the groundbreaking spinoff of All in the Family, following George and Louise “Weezy” Jefferson as they moved on up to the East Side. It tackled race ...
Why Telma Hopkins and George Wallace are grateful for Laverne Cox after starring together in Amazon Prime’s ‘Clean Slate’
Just like America got to see a prosperous Black couple living in Manhattan in the 70s in “The Jeffersons,” in “Clean Slate” America gets to witness a Black family accept their trans relative and not ...