When you consider the television series created by Norman Lear, one tends to focus on the humor that pushed every envelope it ...

After serving in the U.S. Air Force and flying missions during World War II, Lear relocated to Los Angeles ... as “two of the freshest and brightest young men to sit behind a typewriter in ...

The Jeffersons,” which debuted a half-century ago this year, presented the image of an upwardly mobile Black businessman, ...

At the center of the show is a prototypical crotchety yet goodhearted Lear patriarch ... where his wife died young, and where his son Desmond fled without looking back for 17 years.

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s ...