Late vocal legend Whitney Houston almost starred in an iconic role on 'The Cosby Show.' See which one it was, and why she said no!

From a dynamic father-son duo to a pair of twin sisters split at birth, take a look at 20 of our favorite fictional Black TV families.

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Jasmine Guy opened up about the Bill Cosby sexual assault scandal and how the case has affected the Black community. 

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After photos of him working at a Trader Joe’s were posted on social media and went viral, Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens is speaking out about the “job shaming” he’s had to endure. “I was really devastated, but the period of devastation was so short,” Owens told Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts, while wearing his Trader […]

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The Cosby Show has taken another hit, thanks to its maligned creator and star. Hours after Bill Cosby’s expletive-filled guilty verdict in the retrial of his sexual assault case on Thursday, reruns of his iconic NBC sitcom were pulled from Bounce TV, one of the few places where the show was still available. “Effective immediately, Bounce […]

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Carsey-Werner Company, the producer of “The Cosby Show,” has filed a lawsuit against BBC for allegedly using too much-copyrighted material in a documentary titled “Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon.” The lawsuit was launched in California federal court Friday against BBC and Sugar Films Limited, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to the complaint, […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — Reruns of “The Cosby Show” are returning to television, even as the comedian’s sexual assault trial looms next year. Bounce TV has announced in social media posts that it will resume airing reruns of the 1980s sitcom on Dec. 19. Atlanta-based Bounce claims to be the first TV network designed and programmed […]

The Cosby Show remains one of the most revolutionary television series in history and remains an inspiration for hit Black sitcoms like black-ish and others. The series made its debut on this day in 1984, but is now largely gone from the public eye due to Bill Cosby’s sexual assault allegations. The series aired on […]

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This September, a small exhibit honoring Bill Cosby will go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibit is titled "Taking Shape," and focuses on African-American representation on television in the 20th century. To encompass this history, Cosby's 1964 comedy record I Started Out as a Child, an I Spy comic book, and video clips from the program and clips from The Cosby Show have been added to the exhibit.

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On the Monday, March 7 edition of “The Real,” actor and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner stops by and compares Bill Cosby and his legal troubles with Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, who just happen to be two white guys with sex-with-minors issues that Hollywood and the public, to a large extent,  still supports. Plus, the ladies celebrate one […]

While doing press for her role in Will to Love (which stars Marques Houston and Draya Michele), child actress Keisha Knight Pulliam continued to defend the legacy of Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show in an interview with The Grio. “I can say that, based upon the people that continuously approach me and talk about how it’s profoundly impacted […]