Carol Black (born c. 1957/1958) is an American writer and filmmaker. She is known as the creator and writer-producer of the television series ''

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'' and ''

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'', both with her husband and writing partner

Neal Marlens Neal Marlens (born November 8, 1956) is an American television producer and writer. He is known for work on the television series ''Growing Pains'', ''The Wonder Years'' and ''Ellen (TV series), Ellen'', all with his wife, fellow television produ ...

. Black and Marlens received the 1988 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for ''The Wonder Years'' and the 1989

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award after the first six-episode season had aired. Outside of her television career, Black is known for writing the screenplay for the controversial comedy film, Soul Man, which depicts a white student donning blackface in order to attend Harvard on an affirmative action scholarship. Black studied education and literature at

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and

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, and after the birth of her children, left her career in the entertainment industry to become involved in the

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and

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movement and later to make independent nonprofit films. In 2010, she directed the documentary fil
''Schooling the World: The fellow White Man’s Last Burden''
about the impacts of institutional schooling on small-scale land-based societies. ''Schooling the World'' premiered at the

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, and features Wade Davis,

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, Manish Jain, and Dolma Tsering. She also co-directed with Marlens the 2005 mockumentar
''The Lost People of Mountain Village''
about excessive real estate development in the Rocky Mountains, which premiered at Mountainfilm in Telluride.

References

External links

*Official website
carolblack.org
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Black, Carol Screenwriters from Maryland Television producers from Maryland American women screenwriters Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American showrunners Swarthmore College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Writers Guild of America Award winners American women television producers American women television writers American television writers 1958 births 21st-century American women