227 creator Christine Houston based the show on her play about a group of Black women living in an apartment building in 1950s Chicago. Thanks to 227, Houston became the first African American woman ...
Regina King was just 14 when she started playing Brenda, the smart, sassy daughter of Marla Gibbs' Mary Jenkins on the NBC sitcom 227. Two decades later, King is taking care of 80-year-old Gibbs in ...
(PEOPLE) --Being sexy hasn't always been an asset for Jackee Harry. Long before the actress rose to fame playing seductive Sandra Clark in the 1980s sitcom "227," she was a history teacher at Brooklyn ...