‘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

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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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