Study: Obamas replace TV's Huxtables as black marriage role model

Move over Cliff and Clair Huxtable: Barack and Michelle Obama have replaced the star characters of the 1980s TV hit “The Cosby Show” as the role model for love, romance and marriage among blacks, according to a new study.

“The Obamas picked up where the Huxtables left off, except this is no act,” according to the study in the scholarly journal “Ethnicities” and conducted by experts from Louisiana State University and Norfolk State University.