<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The TV Shows That Lean Into Black Wealth
Several recent TV shows focused on Black characters share an obsession with “cash and glamour,” the historian Tanisha C. Ford writes. But they also feel out of step.
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Several recent TV shows focused on Black characters share an obsession with “cash and glamour,” the historian Tanisha C. Ford . Peacock’s (a reboot of the ’90s sitcom ), Fox’s , and OWN’s remind “viewers in nearly every scene that African Americans, too, have generational wealth and sophisticated taste.”
