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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...
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Showtime pushes back The Good Lord Bird to give it more context in wake of police brutality protests
The miniseries starring Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown, based on James McBride's 2013 novel, has been rescheduled from Aug.
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT
Oprah Winfrey announces a new OWN Spotlight special featuring 100 Black fathers talking about racial injustice
OWN Spotlight: Oprah and 100 Black Fathers premieres June 30.
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:12AM EDT
13 Reasons Why takes on police in schools amid George Floyd protests
Amid the police brutality protests, the Netflix teen series found itself ahead of the curve with final season episode was...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 7:07PM EDT
Terry Crews: Brooklyn Nine-Nine trashed four scripts from next season over George Floyd protests
"We’ve had a lot of somber talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we’re going to...
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Jimmy Kimmel apologizes for his "embarrassing" past use of blackface
Kimmel released a statement this morning finally addressing his past use of blackface, saying he had been "reluctant" to discuss...