Author: Murphy Brown Is the Feminist Hero We Needed in 1988 — And in 2018

When Murphy Brown premiered on network television in the fall of 1988, America was in the grips of a culture war. Attempting to reverse the hard-won gains of the civil rights, feminism and gay liberation movements in the ‘60s and ‘70s, the religious right targeted affirmative action, “indecent art” and abortion rights.