For 30 years, Yvette Lee Bowser has been putting Black characters on screen and helping a generation of storytellers get the chance to tell their own stories. Read more of what she had to say to AlaminYohannes here:
and eventually worked her way up to producer during the 1991-1992 season. That experience set the tone for the storyteller she is today. "I definitely became hyper aware of how powerful the medium was," she says of working on) to Hillman College. During the years the show was on the air, there was a rise in applications to HBCUs , and the way Black people felt seen by the series to such a degree fueled Bowser.
Her series about six friends living in a Brooklyn brownstone — which ran from 1993 to 1998 on Fox — is celebrated for its positive portrayal of multi-dimensional Black professionals. "There was a spectrum of Blackness because they're not all from the same place and don't have the same point of view, yet they coexist in this chosen family environment," she explains. "That was the impetus for the whole thing — to tell our stories from our point of view.
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