By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated February 8, 2026 /> Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

When I heard the announcement that The Sherri Shepherd Show was ending, I was shocked. If you haven’t been watching, let me tell you: My girl (in my head) Sherri is good. Damn good.

And that’s what makes this whole thing feel so inevitable and so frustrating at the same time. Like damn, can we ever have (and keep) something good?

Daytime TV is shrinking, we all know this. Black media, also shrinking. Hell… even our democracy is shrinking (*weeps to the knowledge that we have 3 more years of this*). But what’s missing from the conversation is what happens when our voices start to disappear from the mainstream. And it’s Black women’s voices that always disappear first. And even when we do get the opportunity, we’re expected to fail.

Take for example when it was announced in February 2022 that Sherri was getting Wendy Williams’ slot, the think pieces started immediately. Sherri had been >won a Daytime Emmy for it back in 2009. She’d been on 30 Rock, Friends, and The Jamie Foxx Show. She did Broadway and made history as the first Black