our participation of actors. starting off as guest stars, then we became supporting actors. who the hell are you any way? who am i? you will find out very soon. very soon. then we became lead actors we don t run, we stick together and we fight. get out of my house. drama is where all of the conflict happens. scandal is my favorite drama. how many times have i told you what you have to be. everything about it, the twist, the terms, the acting. twice as good. twice as good as them to get half of what they have. i love queen sugar. david makes man. i like the intimacy of that world that is being depicted. definitely new york undercover. you stupid, turn around. a positive role, a great thing to see someone who looks like you, a pivotal moment to figure out who i was. america drama almost doesn t, it doesn t exist without black people now. - that s right, hank plummer. you know, i can find him? - yeah, he s right here. it s me. - you know, for a
- who the hell are you anyway? - who am i? you will find out very soon. very soon. - [ernie] then we became lead actors. - we don t run. okay, we stick together and we fight. - get out of my house. you are afr- - drama is where all of the conflict happens. - [tisha] scandal is my favorite drama. - how many times have i told you, you have to be what? - everything about it, the twist, the turns, the acting. - twice as good. - twice as good as them to get half of what they have. - i love queen sugar, david makes man. i like the intimacy of that world that s being depicted. - definitely, new york undercover. - waiting for the cops. you stupid? turn around. malik yoba, it was a positive role. it was a great thing to see someone who looks like you, very much a pivotal moment of growing, and trying to figure out who i was. - american drama, it almost doesn t. it doesn t exist without black people now. (upbeat music) (smooth jazz music) - [hank] hey, you looking for somebody?
the women of brewster place in 1989 broke ground of the kinds of woman that were represented in that show. it is a drama about women, black women and their tensions, their conflicts, their problems with men, their friendships with one another. it was very kind of cutting edge and forward. what could black women who are typically invisible in this country, what could we be going through? what could be some of our hard ships, joys, vulnerabilities? i think can we do more on television and drama? but it opened up a pathway to what we see today. negro beauty culture is america s first self made female millionaire self-made is a story about tj walker not the first fee male american millionaire. she made her fortune in hair care. she came along at a time it was
better woman than you fallen for my tricks, right? i am proud to have stumbled into the first black lesbian cop ever on television. again, way too late in history to have had that happen, 2002 the wire inspired me so much, we were with those young people but we were in their very adult world and challenges. it is one of the reasons i reached out to michael b. jordan to be a producer. i thought his performance as wallace, in that show. i want to cry. we looked up and that young powerful caring individual living in all of that turmoil. do it it he was gone. i know wallace, i was wallace.
Ridiculous. 1980s, the decade of excess, the television was big giant dramas. you are out of this operation, tubbs, as of now there is no operation without me, crockett we have bill cosby now we get tubbs on miami vice smooth, swaggering, fashion sense that, you know, eclipsed alex scott on i spy the characters were 20 years apart but speaking to one another. i remember it has a fashion show more and more than anything else. you know, the pastels, the collars, he was the black guy that white dads were worried their daughters would bring home. that was coolness and it went with making different types of