In the world of television, Phylicia Rashad became America’s favorite mom as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Premiering in 1984, the show portrayed a successful, educated Black family.

Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen work to lose weight together. By ABC News. September 2, 2009, 3:09 PM. Sept. 3, 2009— -- As Clair Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," Phylicia Rashad was an '80s ...

(The Root) — If you were around in the 1980s, these pictures, which have been floating around on Tumblr, should move you in a very special way. The women pictured, of course, are Phylicia Rashad ...

Phylicia Rashad just received another ... Her role as the intense but fun-loving matriarch of one of TV’s most beloved sitcom families in the ’80s brought her worldwide fame and made her an ...

Phylicia Rashad at Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios in 2019. ... We all know in theory that actors aren’t the characters they play, but to children of the ‘80s, Rashad was Clair Huxtable, ...

Arts & Entertainments Phylicia Rashad brought more than star power to Howard University. The Tony-winning actress and “Cosby Show” mom is stepping down after leading the school’s College of ...

There’s a certain poetry in the fact that Phylicia Rashad has spent much of the past several months working in Philadelphia on a show for NBC. This, after all, is Bill Cosby’s hometown, and ...

Phylicia Rashad Knows Her Purpose. Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger. ...

From rapper Slick Rick to Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad, ... Slick Rick, who Jay-Z credits as an inspiration, caused havoc in the late ‘80s when he dropped his biggest hit, ...

Rashad, a native of Houston, Texas, is also honing her talents behind the scenes. On March 23, the Ebony Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles will present Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun ...