It's Wednesday, the first day that Writers Guild of America's film and TV scribes officially returned to work, and "Young Love" creator Matthew A. Cherry is in New York for a family-friendly celebration of his Max animated series in Brooklyn's Fort Greene park. He explains that there will be a DJ station where kids can create their own beat, just like his show's father Stephen (voiced by Kid Cudi) does in the series. There's also a reading corner, a nod to Cherry's New York Times bestselling children's book inspired by "Hair Love," the Oscar-winning animated short that launched this journey. It probably goes without saying that there's also a hair braiding station.
This is all part of promoting the latest adventures of up-and-coming producer Stephen Love and his daughter Zuri, introduced in a heartwarming 2019 short in which neither had any dialogue. Hearing them talk wasn't necessary at the time, since Stephen's actions conveyed everything we needed to know about this devoted dad. With his partner and Zuri's mother Angela Young (Issa Rae) treating her cancer in the hospital, it fell to him to style his daughter's natural hair, a task he assumes with tenderness following a bit of coaxing and coaching via Angela's hairstyle vlog.
