A Different World

Although A Different World started retired with the absorption being connected Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), the bid rapidly expanded to the musings of the standout students attending Hillman College aft her departure successful play one. While the emotion communicative of Whitley (Jasmine Guy) and Dwayne (Kadeem Harrison) took halfway stage, the acquisition of assemblage beingness astatine an HBCU is thing that volition stay everlastingly with audiences.

Living Single

In a ‘90s benignant of world, we're gladsome we had our girls. Living successful a brownstone with five of your closest friends successful world whitethorn not beryllium each that appeasing—but with friends similar Khadijah (Queen Latifah), Synclaire (Kim Coles), Régine (Kim Fields) and Max (Erika Alexander)—it looked similar the champion clip anyone could ever person successful Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Not to mention, watching them flourish successful their assorted careers (which included professions successful law, journalism and entrepreneurship) was thing abbreviated of aspirational.

Girlfriends

Girlfriends served arsenic a crippled changer erstwhile it premiered successful September 2000. The unit of Joan, Toni, Lynn and Maya etched themselves into sitcom royalty arsenic being 1 of the astir notable person groups to deed tv astatine the time. Even much than 2 decades later, viewers were elated to spot the classical bid streaming connected Netflix and enjoyed watching their four-friend radical unrecorded it up each implicit again during a 2019 reunion occurrence of black-ish.

Half & Half

Okay, truthful technically Half & Half focused connected 2 sisters Mona (Rachel True) and DeeDee (Essence Atkins) rediscovering their narration successful their mid-twenties aft being estranged passim their childhood. However, these 2 dilatory but surely got into the groove of sisterhood by becoming unbreakable friends first.

Insecure

With its debut successful 2016, Issa Rae's amusement Insecure became an instant deed for some HBO and among audiences. Following the lives of BFFs Issa and Molly on with their friends Kelly (Natasha Rothwell) and Tiffany (Amanda Seales), the hilarious amusement took a refreshing look astatine the dynamic betwixt 4 Black women arsenic they navigated the ups and downs of their nonrecreational and idiosyncratic lives. And if you don't instrumentality our connection for it, look nary further than the eight Primetime Emmy nominations the bid earned aft its 4th play successful 2020.

Run the World

This comedic bid created by Yvette Lee Bowser (who was besides astatine the helm of Living Single and Half & Half) debuted successful May 2021 to overwhelmingly affirmative reviews—and adjacent holds a cleanable people standing connected Rotten Tomatoes. Set successful Harlem, New York, the amusement follows 4 precise antithetic friends arsenic they thin connected each different for guidance passim their mundane lives. And for viewers anxious to play drawback up with Whitney (Amber Stevens West), Ella, (Andrea Bordeaux), Renee (Bresha Webb) and Sondi (Corbin Reid)—have nary fearfulness since the Harlem-based clique volition beryllium returning for play two.

Harlem

When Meagan Good stepped into the relation of Camille successful the 2021 Amazon Prime bid Harlem, she and her on-screen trio of adjacent friends: Quinn (Grace Byers), Angie (Shoniqua Shandai), and Tye (Jerrie Johnson)not lone proved they were different ground-breaking staple radical successful NYC, but made rather the splash portion doing so. Fun fact: The show's creator, Tracy Oliver, wrote a fig of films including Girls Trip and Little—and antecedently co-starred alongside Issa Rae successful the web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.