A few years ago, I sat with my friend Norman Lear, the late TV legend behind ... Jr. – another history-making Black fighter pilot like my cousin Lt. Col. Baugh – as chairman of the Joint ...
(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s ...