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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
NBA will reportedly paint "Black Lives Matter" on basketball courts in Orlando
ESPN reports the NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed to have "Black Lives Matter" painted on the court...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
Jon Stewart's Daily Show alums are uniquely prepared to bring us through this moment
Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj and Stewart's successor Trevor Noah all understand how systems keep failing us...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 3:37PM EDT
Scrubs creator apologizes for blackface episodes, suggests they'll "probably" return to Hulu after some editing
Bill Lawrence joined Zach Braff and Donald Faison on their Scrubs podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends Monday, taking sole blame...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 3:37PM EDT
Van Jones denies "false, sensational" report he helped craft the Trump White House's police reform bill
The Daily Beast reported Sunday night that the CNN commentator “attended secret White House meetings with his new friend Jared...
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Colin Kaepernick teams with Ava DuVernay for a Netflix drama on his high school years
Netflix has given the six-episode limited series Colin in Black & White a straight-to-series order.
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:58AM EDT
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels creator: It's "unnerving and eerie" seeing the themes of our show echoed in George Floyd protests
"It's been unnerving and eerie because so many of the themes of the show are being echoed in the streets...
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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...