It's to create an endowed professorship in the African American Department at Brandeis university.
Expensive things, endowed professorships.

She's a registered Democrat so kinda fits the bill. I can only imagine that the series has made her rich beyond belief.
There is a 'Friends Experience' on the corner of 23rd St which I think has a Central Perk Cafe as well as mock ups of their apartments, there always a line around the block when I walk past so guessing it's a real cash cow.
Just thought I'd mention that the demograph of people trying to get in does seem very diverse & not just crackers.

Pro USA & Israel

Also - if your going to wander back some 25 years + through TV programs that didnt particularly reflect minorities there are plenty to chose from -

And just want to throw this one out there - Benson, the programme with Robert Guillaume as the lead playing the black butler in the white house -I really enjoyed that programme but today it would probably be frowned upon because of typecasting a black butler.

On these things I tend to take the view that those involved were "living in the moment" & the decisions that they made were relevant to the time, Friends was an immensely popular series, one which was probably making everyone involved pots of money, I would imagine movie studios also invest loads of money in programmes & films that lose money, so its relatively easy to see someone deciding that this "cash cow" should be continued without rocking any boats.

For sure if it was remade today it would be significantly different -

2 Programs I would like to see remade today - Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister, both incredibly funny programs.

They did a stage play which then turned into the TV remake. However it didn't work because the casting of the original was perfect.

Like the remake of Porridge some shows are just so iconic because of the cast. You could never replace John Cleese in Fawlty Towers or Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnet.

Sometimes it is just better to leave well along and come up with something original.

One more point

There's a bit in the Daily Mail today saying that the woke brigade want archaeologist's that unearth human remains / skeleton's to stop labelling them as either male or female on the basis that there is no evidence as to what that person "identified as" when it was alive, also calling for them to stop labelling skeletons as having skin of a specific colour as it promotes a kind of table of supremacy.