‘Forever’: Mara Brock Akil on How the Period Before George Floyd’s Murder, the Dangers of Smartphones and Judy Blume Inspired Her Black Teen Love Story

As it turns out, what it’s like to be a teenager hasn’t changed all that much since 1975. That’s what Mara Brock Akil concluded in the process of making a modern-day Netflix series out of “Forever,” the groundbreaking Judy Blume novel about high-schoolers preparing to have sex for the first time. Katherine and Michael, Blume’s […]

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