The Best Black Tv Shows

Follows the lives of several single male and female roommates and friends in 1990s Brooklyn, New York.

A poor African-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.

A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.

The Wayans siblings present an African-American focused sketch comedy show.

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne, focusing on his relationship with his girlfriend Gina, interactions with Gina's best friend Pam, and escapades with his best friends Tommy and Cole.

Soul Train is an African-American focused music-dance television program that aired 35 years, primarily featuring performances by R&B, soul, funk, pop, and hip hop artists.

Comedian Dave Chappelle hosts this sketch-comedy show that parodies many of the nuances of race and culture.

Wealthy African American dry cleaner George Jefferson, his wife Louise, and son Lionel move into a luxury apartment building and develop occasionally fractious relations with other tenants, including their sassy maid Florence.

The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

A stand up comedian suddenly becomes a father when he takes custody of his sister's three children.

Brothers Huey and Riley Freeman experience a culture clash when they leave Chicago to move in with their grandfather in the suburbs.

Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell are twins separated at birth who learn of each other's existence as teenagers and reunite.

A teenager struggles to come to terms with everything life throws at her.

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny Proud as she does her best to navigate through the early years of teend-dom.

The everyday life and problems of the Josephs, a black family living in Chicago, Illinois.

Michael Kyle longs for a traditional life, but his day-trader wife Janet, gangsta rap-worshipping son Michael Jr., and brooding daughters Claire and Kady make his dream just that ... a dream.

Rev. Reuben Gregory, finds dealing with the headstrong, opinionated, and unethical Deacon Ernest Frye--who works as a lawyer when not tending to church business--won't make his job easy.

A former funk star named Steve Hightower enlists as a high school music teacher away from his original career in Chicago.

A trio of black youths learn about life, love, friendship, credit cards, gambling, and a variety of other things while growing up in an inner city.

The misadventures of suave Park Avenue millionaire Phillip Drummond, his teenage daughter Kimberly, and their current housekeeper Edna Garrett who adopted the two pre-teenage sons of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem.

Jamie King is an aspiring actor from Terrell, Texas, who has come to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business. To support himself, he works at his family's hotel.

A teenage girl periodically receives brief psychic visions of the near future. Trying to make these visions come true results in trouble, and hilarious situations, for the girl and her friends.

The wacky escapades of brothers Shawn and Marlon Williams, along with their wise but eccentric father.

Kenan and Kel: two best friends who live in Chicago are always dragged down by Kenan's get rich quick schemes while orange soda-loving buddy Kel is dragged along but tends to mess things up.