Decider

'Forever' Creator Mara Brock Akil Shares Why Her Netflix Series Made Major Changes To Judy Blume's Book: "I Think Those Key Pivots Opened Up The World"

Discover What’s Streaming On: Not many people would look at a 50-year-old novel by Judy Blume and see a story that could just as easily be set in present-day Los Angeles with two Black teens. Mara ...
Time

Mara Brock Akil Changed TV. But Her Most Urgent Story Demanded a New Medium

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Rolling Stone

‘Forever’ Showrunner Mara Brock Akil Wants to ‘Give Boys Their Full Humanity’

The Friday before the new Netflix adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel Forever was set to release, its creator Mara Brock Akil was power-walking through New York City for exercise. The Los Angeles ...
Vulture

‘A Black Woman Got Them Judy Blume’

The first boy Mara Brock Akil ever fell in love with was named Stan Bradley. It was 1986, and she was 16. Stan had just been a boy on the periphery: His mother owned the beauty salon that her mother ...
The Root

This Mara Brock Akil Interview Begs the Question, Why Do Shonda Rhimes’ Casts Get More Accolades Than Akil’s?

Mara Brock Akil’s interview during Chicago Ideas Week, recently posted to YouTube, began pretty normally. She described how she got her start in screenwriting. Suggested Reading Black Athletes Who ...