In the heart of Texas, ATX TV Festival staged a live reading of "Maude's Dilemma" — wherein Bea Arthur's beloved character decides to get an abortion — as part of a closing night tribute to the late, ...

"Persuasive" was a word that came up often on Monday night at the Television Academy in North Hollywood, where Norman Lear spoke at an event that honored his past and continued contributions to TV. As ...

When I heard the news about Norman Lear’s death, I was sitting with my writing team at Abortion Access Front. We had just finished writing this social post when the notification came in on Slack: ...

Two months before the Supreme Court ruled that women had a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, Norman Lear put the issue in Americans' living rooms when the main character in his CBS ...

Norman Lear may have passed away in December 2023 at 101 years old, but his legacy lives on through the shows the Emmy-winning icon created, like All in the Family, Maude and The Jeffersons. Over the ...

Norman Lear at the “Live in Front of a Studio Audience" after party in Los Angeles (Credit: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images) Baseball had Babe Ruth. Rock ‘n’ roll had The Beatles. Television had Norman ...

Titled “Maude’s Dilemma,” the episodes chronicled the decision by the main character to have an abortion. The landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade was issued two months after these episodes.

Two of Norman Lear’s 1972 episodes of “Maude” are the most controversial episodes in his long career of groundbreaking TV shows. In what has become known as “Maude’s Dilemma”, Maude discovers that at ...

Norman Lear was not a man to shy away from controversy. If anything, he sprinted toward it, knowing that doing so would help open people’s minds to pervasive American issues related to discrimination, ...