Malcolm-Jamal Warner Is Honored for ‘Endless Curiosity and ‘Warmth’

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Carried Heavy Load for Black America

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the Lessons of Theo Huxtable

Vinson Cunningham on the actor Malcolm Jamal-Warner, who is best known in the role of Theo Huxtable on the eighties sitcom “The Cosby Show,” and who has died at the age of fifty-four.

Gen Xers mourn drowning death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, known as Theo on ‘The Cosby Show’ - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner is seen on the red carpet of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, honoring Bill Cosby, in Washington, Oct. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) By Corey Williams ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time: a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light. And Malcolm-…

Theo raised us: On Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Black fatherhood

There’s a heroism that rarely gets recognized. It doesn’t wear a cape. It doesn’t march in the streets. It doesn’t shatter glass ceilings or topple institutions. It simply shows up — on our television screens, in our living rooms, in the imaginations of children who are desperately searching for models of who they might become. For many of us — especially those raised in the brittle tension between survival and aspiration, masculinity and vulner…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Is Honored for ‘Endless Curiosity and ‘Warmth’

Malcolm-Jamal Warner has been honored by his friends and former colleagues in a live podcast almost a week after his death. A live episode of his “Not All Hood” podcast dropped on Friday, July 25 and was led by his cohost Candace Kelley. Actress Jessica Miesel, who worked alongside Warner in The Resident, paid tribute while appearing on the podcast. “I was so struck by his endless curiosity and his warmth and his elegance, but mainly his ability…