This Writer Is On A Mission To Bring Meaningful Black Stories To The Forefront — Starting With A Cultural Staple

Raluca Maniță

When Felicia Pride was still a young girl growing up in Baltimore, the TV writer would fittingly spend her days after school watching episodes of the hit sitcom “A Different World” — the HBCU-set series that brought Black higher learning to primetime television, and more importantly, changed Black pop culture forever. Back then, Pride, like many young Black people, fell in love with the iconic ’80s series, its fictional Hillman College and its unforgettable cast of characters that have endured