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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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Big Mouth and Central Park reveal the flaws of color-blind casting
Netflix's Big Mouth and Apple TV+'s Central Park respectively cast Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell as biracial kids who are...
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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 6:10PM EDT
Lisa Rinna alleges that QVC is trying to silence her for supporting the LGBTQ community and Black Lives Matter
"I am sad to report It would now seem I can’t use my platform to inform or question or say...
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Pulling 30 Rock's blackface episodes is a bad idea: "NBC is muddying the historical record"
NBC yanking four episodes of 30 Rock featuring blackface amounts to "cleaning up the record of two influential creators who...
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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...