Nearly five decades later, Netflix’s adaptation of “Forever,” developed by Mara Brock Akil, brings Blume’s themes into a modern context, reminding a new generation that love, especially first love, ...

This universal aspect of Blume’s storytelling is what appealed to television mogul Mara Brock Akil when she was 12 and read ...

In 1975, Judy Blume released Forever, a YA novel about a young woman falling in love for the first time and losing her ...

Creator Mara Brock Akil's take on the 1975 YA classic moves the action to 2018 Los Angeles, following two Black teens as they navigate the ups and downs of first love.

The actress reflects on portraying Keisha in this acclaimed series, how Mara Brock Akil’s vision reshaped the story, and why ...

The Netflix ... Forever reflected the massive changes that women were experiencing in US culture at the time, in a way that pretty much no one else writing for young people did. In short, Blume ...

Black motherhood has been depicted many times before. Netflix’s teen romance caught my group chat off guard. The messages in ...

Judy Blume, the bestselling author behind titles including Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Forever (which recently became adapted into a Netflix series), Summer Sisters and more, is known for her ...

Building on a base of sex-positive teen series is a brand-new iteration that re-examines the ideas from Blume’s novel 50 years later ...

For the series, adapted from Judy Blume’s novel, costume designer Tanja Caldwell scoured Los Angeles for its 2018 and 2019 ...

Netflix's "Forever" creator and actors explain how the show was not only the love story the culture needed, but also a ...

Remembering Judy Blume ... down the road that Blume's 1975 novel forded, accurately capturing adolescence's hidden longing and confusion. In eight episodes, "Forever" strolls us through a ...