![]() When people remember Mablean Ephriam in the future, what do you want your legacy to be?Įvery day when I wake up, I say, ‘Lord, give me the opportunity to be a blessing to someone.’ I want my legacy to be that I was a giver, that I cared about my fellow man and I care for others. But working with Tyler was absolutely a wonderful experience. My scene was three minutes, and more people came to know me from those three minutes than four years, five days a week, two times a day on television. When I did the Tyler Perry first movie, I had been doing “Divorce Court” for four or five years. That amazes me and it really shows the power of television and the power of movies. So of course, I wanted to know: What was it like working with Tyler Perry? I grew up seeing you in Tyler Perry movies. When I looked up on that wall and I found my name, my mother was with me and that was my defining moment. My favorite career-defining moment was when I went down to the Metropolitan News on November 30, 1978, to see if I had passed the bar. Looking back at your amazing career, what would you say is one of your favorite career-defining moments? ![]() I had people like that as my heroes and heroines. I had people like Maxine Waters, who was just a parent standing up to the school board. I had people like Brathwaite Burke, who’s one of the first Black women to become a lawyer. My church encouraged the young people to do what wanted to do, to dream, to hope, to fight forward to prepare for it. When I decided in the eighth grade I wanted to be a lawyer, my mother was the first one there encouraging. Who are some of your favorite Black icons that inspire you to be who you are today?įortunately, I had a mother who inspired me. It’s an absolutely marvelous thing that everybody’s voice will be there and it’s wonderful to have that one other piece of diversity added to the United States Supreme Court. We get a chance to someone like us make a difference. So, I am excited that finally our voices will be heard. I hate the part that is the first-in 2022. I love the part that it will be a Black woman judge on the Supreme Court. I love the part that he made a vow to do so and he’s keeping that vow. Pivoting to Biden announcing the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson-the first Black woman nominated to be in the Supreme Court-can you speak to the importance of a Black woman in that seat of power? I give some child out there who’s listening to me trying to figure out their future a hope and a dream, and they may say “oh, that’s what I’ll be.” So many Black kids don’t have hope for the future and they don’t even know what avenues are available to them. I am the first Black woman to become a television judge and that was a milestone. I love what I do because it allows me to do all of that. I say that my job as a television artist is not only to entertain, but to educate, to stimulate to motivate. What’s your favorite thing about hosting a television court show?
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