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Happy Mother's Day: 12 Black TV Mamas We Wish Raised Us
Happy Mother's Day: 12 Black TV Mamas We Wish Raised Us
1. Tasha Mack: "The Game"
1 of 122. Rainbow Johnson: "Black-ish"
2 of 123. Dee Mitchell: "Moesha"
3 of 124. Lisa Landry: "Sister, Sister"
4 of 125. Pose's: Blanca
5 of 126. Janet Kyle "My Wife And Kids"
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7. Nikki Parker: "The Parkers"
7 of 128. Cookie Lyons: "Empire
8 of 129. Claire Huxtable: "The Cosby Show"
9 of 1210. Vivian Banks: "Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air"
10 of 1211. Harriette Winslow: "Family Matters"
11 of 1212. Maya Lewis" "Scandal"
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Happy Mother's Day: 12 Black TV Mamas We Wish Raised Us
[caption id="attachment_3128555" align="alignleft" width="900"] Source: ABC/FX/FOX / Courtesy of ABC, FX and Fox.[/caption] This Mother's Day, as we celebrate the matriarchs in our family who have raised us, loved us and nurtured us into adulthood in real-life, we wanted to pay a little homage to the television mothers as well. While we would never trade in the real thing for the fictional ones, there are still many qualities women such as Black-ish's Rainbow Johnson, Pose's Blanca and Empire's Cookie possess that we could have used to guide us in our early years. Then, of course, there are the mamas of the past such as Claire Huxtable, Aunt Viv and Harriette Winslow who taught us so much along the way too. So to honor that, here are 12 Black mamas from the small screen that we wish would have raised us too (Sorry Mama!):
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