In a recent column on Huffington Post Black Voices, Danielle Moodie-Mills references her alma mater, Sachem High School.
The column titled “Lessons from ‘A Different World'” refers to the show “A Different World” and “The Cosby Show” and their profound impact on her development as a young adult growing up in a predominately white suburb on Long Island.
“Thanks to A Different World and the Cosby’s I knew that history was the black experience. We weren’t just a few pages in a 700 page textbook — we warranted much, much more,” she writes. “Not only did the Cosby’s give us a lawyer and a doctor, when we packed up our bags and moved from Brooklyn to Hillman they gave us the world. Hillman gave us mathematicians, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, judges, military officials, Senators etc.”
According to her bio on HuffPo, Moodie-Mills is an Advisor for LGBT Policy & Racial Justice at the Center for American Progress, and Senior Manager for Environmental Education Campaigns at the National Wildlife Federation.
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-Words by Chris R. Vaccaro