'Movin' on up': 'The Jeffersons' and the rise and fall of the black sitcom
July 27, 2012
The golden age of black television -- the late 1960s to 1970s -- introduced us to something more than just seeing ourselves on television. It provided the outlet for black families and communities to become comfortable with seeing various representations of ourselves on the major networks, in the evenings when everyone was at home and watching television. From the single working mom that was…
Today is the 90th birthday of Norman Lear, the creator of some of the most important sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s. In his honor, and in memory of the actor Sherman Hemsley, who passed away this past week, enjoy this blog on the black sitcom from NBC news writer Chiderah Monde.
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Here is Sherman Hemsley’s obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/arts/television/sherman-hemsley-star-of-the-jeffersons-dies-at-74.html?_r=1&hpw
And two more blogs on “The Jeffersons”:
http://malikaziz.com/2009/05/16/most-important-black-tv-shows-17-the-jeffersons/
http://howsweetitwas.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/244/
Feel free to post other discussions of The Jeffersons or other of Lear’s sitcoms. And we would love for you to write about sitcoms for our blog.
–Tracy