Show runner and #Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil is a black woman as well as a writer, which means we're already on the same winning team. But, even as we look up to her, we take a look at the comrade's body of work and ask Mara why? and other bad puns. 
 
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Show runner and #Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil is a black woman as well as a writer, which means we're already on the same winning team. But, even as we look up to her, we take a look at the comrade's body of work and ask Mara why? and other bad puns. Listen. To. Us.

Show runner and #Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil is a black woman as well as a writer, which means we're already on the same winning team. But, even as we look up to her, we take a look at the comrade's body of work and ask Mara why? and other bad puns.&nbsp;
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Mara why?

Phetha and Kuntha dissect shows with an intersectional, feminist, womanist, blackist, doing-too-muchist lens and ask where - and how - are the black women on our screens.

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