It might take me a minute to edit to add this with the name of the Black actress on “The Young And The Restless” — mostly I been watching “Get Shorty” binge-style.
Also, I have 100 items taped and not quite queued or whatever in my infinity or whatever taping library function.
(I was kidding but it’s actually true:
But another big reason Y&R was beloved in my family was its black characters, who flourished in the 80s and 90s: They began as background figures, but slowly evolved into pillars of their fictional community. Born the year The Cosby Show premiered, I grew up watching 227, Amen, Family Matters, and A Different World not knowing how hard it was to integrate TV; for me, black folks were already there. There was a point in my childhood when I knew Drucilla, Olivia, Neil, Nathan, and Mamie, Y&R’s powerhouse stable of 90s black characters, better than some of my own cousins– The Atlantic; And I found 2 more:
No longer called Soap, now they have Trintellix for worsening depression. Dopes?
Dope Opera? That can’t be by me.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 