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Posted Monday 7/06/20 at 1:15PM EDT
Fox News begins capitalizing "Black" when referring to race
Effective today, Fox News will capitalize Black "when it is used as an adjective describing people, a community, or culture,"...
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How Netflix became a leader in Black content as the rest of Hollywood scrambles to catch up
Amid the George Floyd protests on June 10, Netflix released a "Black Lives Matter" collection of 56 shows, films and...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Forget the alleged blackface: The Golden Girls was mired in racism and rape culture throughout its run
As Steven W.
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TV's "now problematic" episodes have always been problematic
There's a natural tendency to blame "cancel culture" when TV shows and movies we like become "problematic now," says Jeva...
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Posted Thursday 7/02/20 at 2:50AM EDT
Revisiting Survivor's 2006 "race wars" season
Survivor: Cook Islands premiered to controversy in fall 2006 by dividing 20 castaways into four tribes by race and ethnicity:...
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 11:36PM EDT
Watch Don Cheadle take on Blanche from The Golden Girls' use of the Confederate Flag
Cheadle was one of the stars of The Golden Girls' ill-fated 1992-93 spinoff The Golden Palace when the Confederate flag's...
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Removing blackface episodes doesn't confront racism, says a scholar on racial caricature
"Every year, when I teach undergraduates about minstrelsy and blackface, I look around for a recent example -- and I...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
Bob's Burgers creator expects to recast Black transgender sex worker Marshmallow, who's voiced by a white cisgender male actor
When Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard and his collaborators announced last week that Kristen Bell was exiting her Central Park...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
Soul Food turns 20: The Black TV pioneer paved the way for Empire, Greenleaf, Power and other Black dramas
"The Showtime drama, about a multi-generational family whose members made it a point to always come together for Sunday dinner...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
Wendell Pierce pitches himself for Family Guy's Cleveland Brown role
"Now that Mike Henry has consciously given up the role of Cleveland,I am publicly starting a campaign to voice the...
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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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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 1:09PM EDT
Central Park co-creator Josh Gad on recasting Kristen Bell's role: "It was frankly an easy decision to make"
“We all collectively understood, even before the events of the past few weeks, that we made a mistake and you...