Oct 23, 2025
Njera Perkins
Social Media Is Utterly Outraged Over Keke Palmer’s New HBCU Series, ‘Southern Fried Rice’
The newest series on Keke Palmer’s KeyTV Network is stirring up all kinds of controversy this week. You can watch the trailer here.
It all started on Tuesday with the announcement of “Southern Fried Rice,” a coming-of-age dramedy that follows a Gen-Z Korean-American adoptee named Koko who, raised by a Black family, leaves her small town in Georgia to attend an elite HBCU in Atlanta, where she, according to the show’s description, “enters a world that challenges her sense of belonging.”
