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Green Is Still The Only Color That Matters In TV

From the "Scandal" Facebook page.
Actress Kerry Washington, who plays Olivia Pope on the hit show "Scandal."

David Hyde talks with Robert Thompson, Director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture Trustee at Syracuse University about racial diversity on television. From The Cosby Show to In Living Color to Scandal, for the last three decades shows starring and produced by African-Americans have been huge hits; but primetime television still remains mostly white.

Year started with KUOW: 2004