For the Love of the Game: Mara Brock Akil Recalls Her Rise Through 1990s TV Before Creating ‘Girlfriends,’ ‘Being Mary Jane,’ ‘Forever’

Mara Brock Akil remembers the moment she gained the confidence to become a showrunner with the precision of someone who has turned it over in her mind a few thousand times. She was not long out of Northwestern University, working as a writer’s trainee on the buzzy Fox dramedy “South Central” in 1994. The series, […]

By Cynthia Littleton