THE COLOR OF FRIENDSHIP (ft. Mo Phillips-Spotts)

Al & Val are joined by special guest, Mo Phillips-Spotts to take on the least DCOMmy of DCOMs, the Color of Friendship

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The Color of Friendship (February 5, 2000)

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Directed by Kevin Hooks (TV Director since 1983 - This is Us among many others)

Written by Paris Qualles (wrote Tuskegee Airmen, Rosa Parks Story, and a Raisin in the Sun)

Starring:

Lindsey Haun as Mahree Bok (True Blood)

Shadia Simmons as Piper Dellums (Quints, Zenon the Zequel)

Carl Lumbly as Congressman Ron Dellums (Isiah Bradley on Falcon & the Winter Soldier, also played Jon Jonzz & his dad on different DC shows, Alias for 5 years)

Penny Johnson as Roscoe Dellums (Larry Sanders Show, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 24, Castle, The Orville)

Anthony Burnett as Brandy Dellums

Travis Davis as Erik Dellums

Melanie Nicholls-King as Flora (The Wire, Rookie Blue, Anne with an E, Little Fires Everywhere)

Susan Danford as Merle Bok

Stephen Jennings as Pieter Bok

Michael Kanev as Rian Bok (MURDOCH MYSTERIES)

Ahmad Stoner as Daniel

Ryan Cooley as Billy (Are you Afraid of the Dark & Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Erik Dellums as Oliver (real son of the Dellums family)

Synopsis: In 1977, two girls from opposite sides of the world come together and change each other's lives. Young, white Mahree Bok lives in apartheid South Africa with her wealthy family. Piper Dellums, the daughter of a black U.S. congressman in Washington, D.C., prepares to welcome Mahree to the U.S. for a semester abroad. Mahree is surprised to find her host family is black, and Piper is stunned that Mahree is white. Each will have to question the assumptions she had.