The comedy ran from 2000 to 2008 and received only one Emmy Awards nod for a technical achievement.

For eight seasons and nearly 200 episodes, “Girlfriends” helped redefine what sisterhood meant on television. More than 25 years after its debut, star Tracee Ellis Ross can look back fondly on what ...

The former castmates, Golden Brooks, Jill Marie Jones, Persia White, and Ross, reunited in New York City finally giving ...

Tracee Ellis Ross is pulling back the curtain on the sharp racial disparities of early-2000s television culture.

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 ...

The series ended suddenly in 2008 after the writers’ strike and not due to the reduced quality. The prominent cast members reunited after twelve years, and they shared a lot of insider secrets about ...

According to Glamour, screenwriter and producer Mara Brock Akil wanted to create a program that would showcase the lives of Black women. “It was really simple for me,” she said. “I wanted Black women ...