Bern Nadette Stanis

BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times 1974 but theres much more to her than that In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty As sophisticated and graceful as she was she still became TVs first black sex symbol or It girl ThelmaBernNadette and the Evans family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl such as that all black girls and black families in the ghetto had no hopes dreams or class Thelma showed that a ghetto girl had hopes and dreams intelligence respect dignity and grace and it wasnt just actingBernNadette was that naturally She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl and woman