by G. Brown
There are fans who say they can’t live without their weekly fix in their Cookie or Oliva Pope addictions. The shows have become a part of TV history because of phenomenal ratings success featuring Black casts and Black actresses/actors in lead roles. While shows like the aforementioned and a handful of others celebrate groundbreaking success because of Black viewers, there are critics who think the shows are doing more harm than good.
One viewer says he will no longer watch “Empi
Viola Davis accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for How to Get Away With Murder at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 20.
Alex Berliner/Invision for the Television Academy/AP
Back in the heyday of Jet magazine, that weekly digest of short, fizzy articles about black life, there was a back-page feature simply called “Television.” It was a no-frills rundown of nearly every black person who would be appearing on prime-time TV over the coming week, just their nam
