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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
Black Lives Matter movement took center stage at the 20th BET Awards
This year's ceremony was dedicated to the anti-racism and anti-police brutality movement that has drawn widespread attention following George Floyd's...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
Report: Van Jones secretly helped the Trump administration on its "weak" police reform bill, then praised it on CNN
The CNN commentator "went on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King and Anderson Cooper 360 to enthusiastically commend Trump’s executive...
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Alison Brie is "truly sorry" for voicing BoJack Horseman's Vietnamese-American character
"In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen," Brie wrote on Instagram of the Vietnamese-American...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 9:46PM EDT
Hulu removes a Golden Girls episode featuring blackface
The 1988 Season 3 episode "Mixed Blessings" features Betty White's Rose and Rue McClanahan's Blanche testing out a new mud...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 3:58AM EDT
The Problem with Apu's Hari Kondabolu reacts to The Simpsons no longer using white actors to voice non-white roles
Kondabolu's 2017 TruTV documentary helped raise awareness of how the Apu character's stereotypes hurt Indian-Americans, especially when it was their...
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Mike Henry exits Family Guy Cleveland Brown role: "Persons of color should play characters of color"
Henry announced on Twitter Friday afternoon he is leaving the role of Cleveland Brown that he's played since Family Guy's...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 6:24PM EDT
Fox: The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters
“Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” the network said in a statement Friday,...
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Netflix pulls a Community episode featuring Ken Jeong in blackface
Community's Season 2 episode “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons," which aired in February 2011, features Jeong's Ben Chang wearing blackface during...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 1:09PM EDT
Greg Daniels re-edits a The Office Season 9 episode to remove a blackface scene: "I am sorry for the pain that caused"
The December 2012 Season 9 episode "Dwight Christmas" features a brief joke of Mark Proksch's warehouse worker Nate wearing blackface...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 1:09PM EDT
Trevor Noah tackles "copaganda" and calls on Hollywood to change how police are portrayed
The Daily Show host spent eight minutes last night examining how TV's police portrayals have influenced Americans.
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Desus and Mero say they have a "huge responsibility" in addressing the George Floyd protests when they return from hiatus
Desus Nice and The Kid Mero's last episode aired on May 28, three days after police killed Floyd, and didn't...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Jon Batiste has been lending his musical talents to police brutality protests
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert bandleader has been performing before the protesters on the streets of New Orleans and...
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Family Matters stars react to their racist cop episode's relevance 26 years later
The Season 5 Family Matters episode "Good Cop, Bad Cop" airing on Jan.
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel's blackface apology was pretty weak: He was defensive after waiting to be called out
When Jimmy Fallon apologized a month ago for using blackface on SNL, he made it clear that "there is no...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
It's comedy's turn to contend with its role in perpetuating systemic racism
The racial reckoning over cop shows has shifted to comedy, with Tina Fey, The Good Place's Megan Amram and Jimmy...