ortolans. My favourites – black-led series such as Love & Hip Hop, Black Ink Crew and Bad Girls Club – are the ones I feel most conflicted about enjoying.A dearth of black leads in romantic comedies led to a 90s boom in African American chick flicks.
Similarly, the black reality TV industry thrives concurrent to a mainstream that renders black cast members decorative. Over the years, black media has thrust its own reality stars into the spotlight, and provided less fusty takes on shows such as the Bachelor, in the form of 2006’s Flavor of Love starring Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav, and subsequent spinoff I Love New York, fronted by former contestant Tiffany “New York” Pollard.
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