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Actress Phylicia Rashad, known to most as the strong-willed Claire Huxtable of “The Cosby Show,” was feted by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) at the Park Plaza hotel Friday night...
With her witty retorts and eagle eye on her husband’s eating habits, Rashad became a presence in households nationwide in the 1980s as the career-oriented wife of Cliff Huxtable (played by Bill Cosby) on “The Cosby Show...
...greatest thing about Ms. Rashad as Mrs. Huxtable was that she was able to balance her career as a successful lawyer with her tremendous ability to raise positive, interesting children,” wrote BMF board member Brandon M. Terry ’05 in an e-mail. “Honoring her is both a tribute to the institution of motherhood, while also a celebration of the strong, independent black woman who struggles to make her mark in fields formerly closed off to her because of her race and gender...
...President Alonzo Sherman ’03 said it was not difficult getting Rashad to come to the event because she was eager to support their cause of honoring black women and their struggles...
...Rashad also acted alongside Bill Cosby in the CBS sitcom “Cosby” and has appeared in a number of films and on- and off-Broadway productions...