All in the Family, with fellow CBS series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and M*A*S*H, redefined the American situation comedy in the early 1970s. Based on the hit British show Till Death Us Do Part, All in the Family introduced social realism and...

All in the Family is an acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, the show was revamped, and given a new title, Archie Bunker's Place. This...

Entrepreneurs looking to launch an innovative start-up -- and sell it for big bucks -- could learn lessons from Norman Lear, creator of a string of TV hits in the 1970s. Among the lessons?Knock on opportunity's door. In the late 1960s, Lear noticed a squib...

Stop, drop, shut ‘em down open up shop…When it comes to the Ruff Ryders, one of the most widely-spread street crews and movements in hip hop culture, they prefer keeping business a family affair. Just ask Joaquin 'Waah' Dean, Co-CEO and founding member of...

They held a tour stop, and a family reunion broke out. Floyd Mayweather Jr. stood with his arm around his father Tuesday, showing him off to Oscar De La Hoya and making it clear that the senior Mayweather would have a role in preparing him...

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, we have nearly 26 million small businesses. Most are owned by individuals or families. Eventually, one of two things often happens to these firms: They're sold or passed on to the next generation.Either way, major tax issues exist.A...

I have a most peculiar complaint about Mrs. Hobson's complaint [see excerpt above]. Nigger, kike, and sheeny were the words she found missing from in "All in the Family," which, according to her, made the show dishonest. But there is another word some bigots use—some liberal bigots. You know the word they use. The one word, the hideous word. Don't even print it. No, Mrs. Hobson, not nigger. Schwartze.

I have a most peculiar complaint about the bigotry in the hit TV comedy, "All in the Family." There's not enough of it. Here, spade, spic, coon, Polack—these are the words that its central character, Archie Bunker is forever using, plus endless variations, like jungle bunnies, black beauties, the chosen people, yenta, gook, chink, spook and so on. Quite a splashing display of bigotry, but I repeat, nowhere near enough of it.

I was … taken instantly with [the] clever show [All in the Family], and count myself today as one of its many yet unjaded enthusiasts. Part of my delight in Lear's scripts is traceable, I suspect, to my longstanding admiration of Sinclair Lewis' work: surely Archie Bunker is the McLuhanesque counterpart of the Gutenbergian George Babbitt of half a century ago. The American appetite for social satire is, it seems, nearly as voracious as the English: indeed, every American social class wi...