TV Shows Embrace Black Women in Lead Roles (Black Men Not So Much)

A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.

A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot that promises to change the course of their lives.

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

A young pitcher becomes the first woman to play in the Major Leagues.

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

The life of a young Black woman, her work, her family and the popular talk show which she hosts.

10 years after the end of Precrime in Washington DC one of the three PreCogs attempts to lead a normal life while still suffering from visions of the future. Will they be able to hold it together or mentally breakdown and give up?

Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

A reality television series focused on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Follows the lives of some elite women and men in Atlanta involved in the entertainment industry. It covers the drama that goes on with their friends, children, families and coworkers.

A group of women who are currently, or used to be in a relationship with a basketball player, come together on this show to tell their story.

Seasonal anthology series. Season 1: The lives of the participants in a trial with significant racial motives are forever changed during the legal process.

A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.

Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.

This show follows the daily life of the fabulous K Michelle. Through her busy schedule, heartbreaks, and friend drama, Kimberly always finds a way to come out on top be turning her pain into music.

An astronaut struggles to learn how she became pregnant while on a thirteen-month-long solo space mission.

Nicole Byer is living the Hollywood dream. Well, Hollywood adjacent--the Deep Valley to be precise--and it's more a struggle than a dream.

An outspoken and confident technology wiz and skilled black belt discovers that both her parents are spies and expect her to follow in their footsteps.

A musical prodigy gets into a gifted program called Advanced Natural Talents at the local high school.

Examines the dangerous aftermath of two racially charged shootings in a small Southern town, providing an explosive autopsy of our criminal justice system.

A trio of women form a musical group in Atlanta.

Three friends aspire to break into the hip-hop music industry.