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Single black women on TV didn’t start with “Basketball Wives” and “Single Ladies.” The show “Living Single,” which ran on Fox for five years from 1993-1998, predated those shows, as did “Girlfriends” which started airing in 2000, picking up where “Living Single” left off. For those five years, Queen Latifah, Kim Fields, Erika Alexander and their male foils T.C. Carson and John Henton ruled the airwaves, with the show centering on a group of black female friends who all lived in different apartments in the same New York City brownstone. It was the vehicle that helped Queen Latifah transition from a rapper to a rapper/actress and one that brought Henton and Carson increased visibility. It was also Fields’ return to television as an adult, having spent a good portion of her childhood playing Tootie on another beloved sitcom, “The Facts of Life.”
While we have a pretty good idea what Queen Latifah’s up to – producing “Single Ladies” as well as many of her many other projects – we thought we’d check in to see what the other folks are up to these days.
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