This case study seeks to add to the limited literature on the depiction of Black journalists in popular culture by focusing on Khadijah James, founder and editor-in-chief of Flavor magazine, as played by multi-hyphenate entertainer Dana “Queen Latifah” Owens on the FOX Network show “Living Single” from 1993 to 1998. Through an (inter)textual analysis that applies Venus Evans-Winter’s Black feminist methodology of “daughtering,” I discuss Queen-Latifah-as-Khadijah’s construction as a Black womanist journalist in popular culture. This study focuses on how Khadijah’s existence paradoxically extended oppressive controlling images of Black-collar entrepreneurship while contesting norms of race, gender, and sexuality that often oversimplify the realities of iconic Black women journalists.

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