Kenya Barris’ Netflix comedy #blackAF grows once it stops trying to be black-ish-ish
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Kenya Barris has created a TV empire by mining his real life for comedy. In 2014, the America’s Next Top Model co-creator and The Game writer-producer pulled from his own home dynamics to create black-ish, an ABC sitcom about a successful dad from South Los Angeles (Anthony Anderson), a mixed-race mom who can’t stop…