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One Of The Co-Creators Of "Friends" Apologizes For The Show's Lack Of Diversity

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Ferture.

0:01.0

What's trending now?

0:02.0

No!

0:03.0

Kristen knows.

0:04.0

It's the Ferture Entertainment Boss.

0:06.5

One of the creators of Friends is apologizing for the show's lack of diversity and to make

0:12.2

amends, Marta Kaufman is pledging $4 million to the African and African American Studies

0:20.2

Department of her alma mater Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

0:25.2

And what this donation is going to do, she says the Marta F. Kaufman 78 Professorship

0:31.4

in African and African American Studies will assist in recruiting more scholars and

0:35.4

teachers, create long-term academic and research goals, and provide new opportunities for

0:40.6

students to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship.

0:44.0

And she was just honest.

0:45.8

She goes, I learned a lot in the last 20 years.

0:48.4

Admitting an accepting guilt is not easy.

0:50.5

It's painful looking at yourself in the mirror.

0:52.2

I'm embarrassed that I didn't know better 25 years ago because friends aired from 94

0:56.8

to 2004.

0:58.4

So she said, her way of redeeming herself is by funding a scholar in the University's

1:02.7

African and African American Studies Department, which is one of the oldest in the country.

1:06.3

How do you feel about something like that?

1:07.5

Like 20 years later, saying, yeah, you know what?

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