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Sara Finney-Johnson

1957–

United States

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Sara Vernetta Finney-Johnson (born January 25, 1957) is an American television producer, writer, and playwright. She is best known as the co-creator, with Ralph Farquhar and Vida Spears, of the UPN sitcoms Moesha, starring Brandy, and The Parkers, starring Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique. Before Moesha, Finney-Johnson and Spears had been a long-term writing team, the first African-American female writing team in the television industry.

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