The Women of Brewster Place: Breaking Taboos and Celebrating Female Empowerment

The Women of Brewster Place came on TV as a miniseries when I was young. In 1989, I was 13 years old and being raised in a pretty conservative family where not much was discussed. Not to mention I grew up in the boonies and I mean deep in the boonies surrounded by forests and farms.

When The Women of Brewster Place came on television, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to see the lives of…