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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 1:25PM EDT
Hundreds of Black artists, led by Kendrick Sampson and Tessa Thompson, call on Hollywood to divest from the police
More than 300 Black artists and executives that include Sterling K.
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 10:37AM EDT
Nickelodeon reviving Nick News for an Alicia Keys-hosted special on race
Keys will lead a discussion on race on Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special, premiering June 29 at...
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Hamilton's Streaming Debut is an Accidental Gift to an American Uprising
Kelly Kessler is the author of the new book Broadway in the Box: Television’s Lasting Love Affair with the Musical.
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30 Rock episodes featuring blackface are being pulled at Tina Fey's request
NBC Universal, 30 Rock creator Tina Fey and her producing partner Robert Carlock have requested four episodes featuring blackface be...
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Posted Monday 6/22/20 at 6:32PM EDT
Epix Charles Manson docuseries Helter Skelter gets a new premiere date
Helter Skelter: An American Myth was originally scheduled to premiere June 14, but was delayed due to the George Floyd...
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BBC commits $124 million on diverse shows in response to the death of George Floyd
In response to a letter signed more than 3,500 people including Michaela Coel, Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth,...
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Posted Monday 6/22/20 at 9:40AM EDT
HBO posts Random Acts of Flyness on YouTube
Avant-garde artist Terence Nance says he asked HBO to post his 2018 sketch-comedy series on the Black experience in honor...
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Posted Monday 6/22/20 at 9:40AM EDT
CNN Center in Atlanta erects a fence to ward off protesters
After the building was attacked amid George Floyd protests last month, CNN has put up imposing metal fencing to keep...
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HBO's Perry Mason Dropkicks Countless Copaganda Tropes
Amid this summer's protests and uprisings against the recent murders, by police, of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Tony...
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Black TV creators helped make Juneteenth famous
This week, President Trump boasted to The Wall Street Journal that he was responsible for making Juneteenth famous.
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
Watchmen Tulsa Race Massacre director: "I just really wanted to vomit" when I heard Trump was speaking in Tulsa
Nicole Kassell filmed the Watchmen pilot's depiction of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre two years ago on the same days...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
For Sherman's Showcase creators, "It's almost like the world caught up to us" with their Black History Month Spectacular's premiere
“We could have never known that this was gonna happen the way that it happened,” co-creator Diallo Riddle says of...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel should've apologized for his past use of blackface before going on a summer sabbatical
In recent weeks, Jimmy Fallon, Howard Stern and the stars of Little Britain have had to address their past use...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
Dave Chappelle's 8:46 feels like the "kind of pat on the head we’re used to from the established and the establishment"
In recent years, Chappelle's standup comedy has trafficked in sexism and transphobia while railing against "cancel culture.
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Kenya Barris: Black-ish's "Juneteenth" is "one of the most important things" I've ever been apart of
Barris is reflecting on Black-ish's October 2017 "Juneteenth" musical episode in the wake of Juneteenth being celebrated as a major...