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♪ its not unusual to be loved by anyone ♪ beretta smith shomade: and so when fox comes around and says, how can we gain audience? oh, black people. so they initiate a series of shows that target an audience that had not been targeted. malcolm venable: martin lawrence is this increasingly mega popular comedian on the scene. martin lawrence: i know big bird been out of business but what the fuck is up? jacqueline coley: if you want to just compare martin and the fresh prince, martin in no way ...

>> people forget that carlton was one of the first black nerds on screen, showing that there are other ways to be black. >> its not unusual to be loved by anyone! >> so when fox comes on and says how can we gain an audience, well, black people. they initiate a series of shows that target an audience that had not been targeted. >> martin lawrence is this increasingly mega popular comedian on the screen. >> if you want to compare martin at the fresh prince, martin in no way ran away from blackness...

Kim c: shanaynay, shanaynay, shanaynay. shanaynay: oh my goodness, if it isnt little miss attitude. cedric: all the characters just felt personal to the kind of young black experience. shanaynay: why are you always over here? i mean, do you have a bed? cedric: fox used that show to build their network. kim f: fox was florida for black people almost. it was just like, thats where we all gonna go now to have a new life. yvette: television became segregated there was a place for shows of color and ...

Bambi haggins: the cw just decides not to do sitcoms anymore and that cuts out all black programming. latoya ferguson: its something fox did earlier, you start your network based on black sitcoms, and then when you get enough viewers, you make the pivot to the quote unquote, more mainstream white audiences, which of course, also gets you better advertisers. aramide: you have this major erasure of people of color except for, you know, side characters. lucas brown eyes: when you are erased from th...

Funny recalling of both chris rocks childhood in 1980s brooklyn. >> my father always knew whatever the cost! >> that is $1.90 in the trash! >> with an all-black show in the home and chris getting busted to an all-white school. >> was it really that bad? much like rock n roll, school shootings were also invented by blacks and stolen by the white man. >> in 2006, upn merged with the wb to become what we now know as the cw. >> it just decided not to do sitcoms anymore, and that cut out all the blac...

Malcolm venable: the mid -90s was a golden era for black sitcoms. michael schneider: as fox went with predominantly new ne check tworks in thit out! >> the mid-90s was a golden era for black sitcoms. >> as fox went with a predominantly african-american cast you had new networks in the wb and upn that took that playbook and went with it. >> dad? mom? that girl has my face! >> sister sister was on wb. the wayans brothers. >> when the black sitcom was emerging on upn and wb, you were so joyful an...

At 61 years, Indian expatriate Vijay Kumar Handa cannot imagine leaving Oman— his home for more than 20 years — for good.

The wagon is packed plumb to the top.

Northern Superior Resources Inc. is pleased to report results from metallurgical testing conducted at SGS Laboratory from its Philibert gold deposit, located 60 kilometres southwest of Chibougamau,...

AWARD winning Midlands writer, Anthony Etherington will be hosting a book signing of his debut novel, Europia in Bromsgrove on July 15.