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Mara Brock Akil brings her unique vision of life and love to Netflix
February 24, 2021
Mara Brock Akil (Medill ’92) still remembers the first time she made an audience laugh. As a freshman at Northwestern, she volunteered to help some friends in the Black sketch comedy group Out Da Box with a show. A member of the group encouraged her to write a sketch, and despite her initial protests that she was a journalist, not an entertainment person, she ended up writing a parody of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens’ then-recent marriage.
“The first laugh was a high I will never forget,” Akil said. “People responding to my work in the places I imagined they would, it was the first hit of, maybe this is something new.” ....

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