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Posted Saturday 7/11/20 at 3:24AM EDT
Prof calls pulling of blackface episodes patronizing to the Black Lives Matter movement
Alfred Martin, an assistant professor of communications studies at the University of Iowa who is doing a research on The...
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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 Wednesday 7/01/20 at 12:30PM EDT
Mad Men's blackface episode to receive a title card disclaimer as it finds new homes on AMC Networks and IMDb TV
The Season 3 episode "My Old Kentucky Home" episode that features John Slattery's Roger Sterling singing in blackface to his bride...
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Posted Wednesday 7/01/20 at 12:30PM EDT
BBC's iPlayer begins adding a warning for past shows containing offensive material in response to blackface controversy
Shows like The League Of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh will carry an "i" logo, carrying warning that the episodes...
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 11:36PM EDT
Nearly 20 shows have used blackface since 2000
Slate has compiled all the instances of blackface on American television in the past 20 years -- not just on...
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 3:41PM EDT
Alyssa Milano denies she was wearing blackface to impersonate Jersey Shore's Snooki
A conservative publication accused Milano of using blackface in a 2013 Funny Or Die parody of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
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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
Jimmy Kimmel has long tried to distance himself from The Man Show, but it is the reason he hosts a network late-night show
Kimmel's blackface apology last week wasn't the first time the late-night host has expressed regret for his time on Comedy...
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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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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 9:46PM EDT
Megyn Kelly says "Turns out NBC loves blackface!" after Hulu pulls Community's blackface episode
On Thursday, Kelly, who was ousted following her Megyn Kelly Today blackface controversy, slammed her former network in response to...
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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...
