Kerry Washington Wears Inspirational Shirt In Honor Of Fictional Television Lawyers
By Yahoo Entertainment
Kerry Washington is making fashion comfy, fun and inspirational with personalized sweatshirts in honor of her fellow on-screen lawyer pals.
The writer and director is promoting her new legal drama Reasonable Doubt on Hulu.
Honoring Black women on TV, specifically Black women portraying lawyers, the Scandal star — who played Olivia Pope on the beloved ABC drama — wore a black sweatshirt with the names “Clair, Joan, Maxine, Jessica, Olivia, Annalise, Molly and Jax” written out in a list of white, block letters.
“This shirt was inspired by a design made by @TheBlackLawyersPodcast,” Washington shared via Instagram. “Less than 2.5% of Lawyers are Black women but they are working to change that!
Tracee Ellis Ross proudly showed off the sweatshirt via Instagram on Saturday in a nod to her former role on Girlfriends.
“As a former Black Woman TV lawyer (Joan Carol Clayton, Esq 👩🏾⚖️) I have no objections!” Ross, 50, playfully captioned a pic of herself sporting the sassy shirt. “Shout out to my friend @kerrywashington for creating this cute sweatshirt celebrating #BlackWomenTVLawyers in honor of her legal drama @reasonabledoubthulu!”
The other character names included feature Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) from How to Get Away with Murder, Molly Carter (Yvonne Orji) from Insecure, Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) from Suits, Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad) from The Cosby Show, Maxine Felice Shaw (Erika Alexander) from Living Single and Jax Stewart (Emayatzy Corinealdi) from Reasonable Doubt.
