Black TV Shows

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

The goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Chronicles a West Baltimore family living in poverty on the front lines of America's drug war.

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

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

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

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever. Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom.

Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA.

A look at the lives, loves, and losses of four different women: Toni, Maya, Lynn, and Joan.

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

Julia Baker is a young African-American woman working as a nurse. She is also a widow (her husband died in Vietnam) trying to raise a young son alone.

Nikki and Kim Parker attend Santa Monica college to earn their college degrees.

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 lives of occupants of an inner-city housing project.

Action comedy-spoof that follows ex-C. I. A. Agent and full-time ladies man, Black Dynamite, who's out to avenge the death of his brother against kung-fu masters, drug-dealing pimps, and The Man.

Cam Calloway and Reggie Vaughn gained fame and fortune that no one could have imagined growing up in one of Boston's most infamous neighborhoods.

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

Earn and his cousin Alfred try to make their way in the world through Atlanta's rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status, and parenthood.

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.