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

legendary TV writer and producer Norman Lear. “Every time you see a black man on the tube, he is dirt poor, wears s--- clothes, can’t afford nothing ... That’s bulls---,” one of them told ...

(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 ...

(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday, and he’s still got a spring in his step. Lear took to Instagram to reminisce the day before his 100th birthday with a ...

At the center of the show is a prototypical crotchety yet goodhearted Lear patriarch ... an intense aspiring businesswoman; Desiree’s childhood friend Louis (D.K. Uzoukwu), a closeted church ...

Norman Lear was a force of nature in television ... There’s also Louis (D.K. Uzoukwu), Desiree’s best friend from childhood, who’s the director of the local church choir and still in the closet, while ...