Friends co-creator to donate $4m amid embarrassment over show’s whiteness

Marta Kauffman will fund professorship in African and African American studies at her alma mater

The co-creator of the TV sitcom Friends is planning to donate $4m to an African and African American studies project because she's so embarrassed" by - and feels such guilt" at - the white homogeneity of the characters on the classic coming of age series.

Marta Kauffman told the Los Angeles Times that she intends for her planned gift to fund the Marta F Kauffman '78 Professorship in African and African American Studies at her alma mater, Brandeis University, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts.