Twenty-five years ago on Sept. 11, 2000, UPN debuted a comedy called “Girlfriends” that followed the lives of four Black women living in Los Angeles. The show’s creator, Mara Brock Akil, who’d gotten ...
It’s been 25 years since “Girlfriends” first hit the airwaves, and Mara Brock Akil, the visionary creator behind the groundbreaking sitcom, is making sure the celebration lasts all year long. The ...
Tracee Ellis Ross always gets by with a little help from her girlfriends. To help launch her new haircare line, Pattern Beauty, Ross enlisted her old castmates from the iconic sitcom Girlfriends.
Growing up, watching Girlfriends felt familiar. Four Black women in LA dissecting their love lives, careers, insecurities, and each other over a lot of wine, and a lot more sarcasm. It was funny.
Persia White is looking back on her favorite episodes of Girlfriends as the hit series celebrates its 25th anniversary. The 52-year-old actress is known to fans as the free-spirited Lynn Ann Searcy on ...
Twenty-five years after Girlfriends debuted and helped redefine what Black sisterhood looked like on screen, Tracee Ellis ...
A staple and beloved Black woman-led sitcom of the UPN era, Girlfriends was abruptly canceled by then-nascent network The CW amid the 2007-08 writers’ strike — a decision that creator Mara Brock Akil ...