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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...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
Cop shows make up half of the drama series on NBC, Fox, CBS and ABC combined
A Quartz analysis found that of the 69 scripted dramas on the Big 4 networks, 35 revolved around law enforcement.
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
Is Watchmen copaganda or a case for abolition?
With its masked police officers, violent vigilantes and secret white supremacist societies, the HBO series has felt more timely and...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
The Challenge has a long, troubling history of tolerating racist behavior
Contestant Dee Nguyen's firing early this month over her anti-Black Lives Matter tweets "prompted a lot more than just an...
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Kristen Bell drops out of voicing a mixed-race character on Apple TV+'s Central Park
A Black or mixed-race actress will take over the animated role of Molly Tillerman, Central Park creators announced in a...
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Jenny Slate quits Big Mouth: "Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people"
Slate posted a lengthy statement on Instagram announcing she's exiting her role as biracial character Missy Foreman-Greenwald because she is...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
Hulu removes three Scrubs episodes featuring blackface at creator Bill Lawrence's request
The Season 3 episode “My Fifteen Seconds” and the Season 5 episodes “My Jiggly Ball” and “My Chopped Liver" have...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
Gone with the Wind returns to HBO Max, with a prologue about how the film "denies the horrors of slavery"
African-American film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, the first-ever Black host in Turner Classic Movies history, explains in the four-and-a-half minute prologue...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
ABC tonight will re-air 2017 Taking the Stage special celebrating African-American history, culture and music
Quincy Jones and Don Mischer, who produced the 2017 special, wrote a letter to Disney's Bob Iger urging its rebroadcast...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
Bryant Gumbel explains the burden of the "Black tax" in a special Real Sports episode
"It's not an IRS thing.
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT
NFL TV broadcasters are debating whether to show player kneeling
NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports and ESPN are debating how to cover players kneeling during the National Anthem to...