This past Saturday, while I was out of town and couch-crashing, I managed to come across a very interesting show on Centric TV. It was called Being: Lisa Nicole Carson and it chronicled Carson’s rise ...

Lisa Nicole Carson was more than Ally McBeal’s best friend on the popular Fox television show of the same name. Not only was she one of the few black actresses on prime-time TV at the time, but she ...

*In the late ’90s, Lisa Nicole Carson was best known as Calista Flockhart’s witty roommate on the hit show “Ally McBeal,” but behind the scenes, she was battling with bipolar disorder. Last year, she ...

Carson was born in Brooklyn, New York; her father is a journalism professor at the University of Florida, and her mother was a kindergarten teacher in New York. She spent her adolescence in ...