(1) A non-curved screen on a TV. Contrast with curved screen. See flat screen. (2) A reference to TVs when LCD screens were replacing CRTs starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s. See flat screen.

Outside of what we see in our own homes, our perception of love and relationships is shaped by experience and, just as powerfully, by what we see on screen. For many Black viewers, the depictions ...