Almost 50 years since its original airing, the Library of Congress looks back at the hour-long TV show with a Black female lead--and tries to figure out why it gets so little respect.
This is a guest post by Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago and Cara Caddoo, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. While recent decades have seen a proliferation of films written, directed, and produced by African Americans, the legacy of …