As T he Neighborhood on CBS wraps its seventh season and prepares for what will be the hit show’s final installment, star Cedric the Entertainer is reflecting on curating a community through television. To make it to seven, let alone eight seasons, in today’s television landscape is no small feat. But for Cedric, someone true to sitcoms and not new to them, the beauty of The Neighborhood is its focus on the things that make us, as humans, different. What is the heart of ‘The Neighborhood’? “We come from different backgrounds, and yet we live in community,” he told Blavity’s Shadow and Act in a recent interview. “We live in a space where we have to share it with others. And so sometimes people can be different from you, but if we learn to meet them, get to know them, say hello, take a little bit of time to kind of find out what they’re all about, you’ll be surprised at the commonalities that you have. The show started out being an exposition into that world.” “Through seven seasons,...