February 1974

Good Times premieres on CBS, created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, becoming the first sitcom to depict a Black two-parent family living in a housing project and addressing inner-city poverty with both humor and pathos.

Blazing Saddles, starring Cleavon Little as a Black sheriff in an all-white racist town, becomes one of the top-grossing films of 1974 and uses biting satire to mock racism in the American West.

Blazing Saddles, starring Cleavon Little as a Black sheriff in an all-white racist town, becomes one of the top-grossing films of 1974 and uses biting satire to mock racism in the American West.