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Black-ish's 2018 shelved political episode is now available on Hulu
The “Please, Baby, Please” episode that was originally scheduled to air in February 2018, but was reportedly scrapped over its...
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How Netflix became a leader in Black content as the rest of Hollywood scrambles to catch up
Amid the George Floyd protests on June 10, Netflix released a "Black Lives Matter" collection of 56 shows, films and...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT
Kenya Barris reveals his 21-year-old daughter tested positive for coronavirus
The Black-ish creator wanted to make it clear while talking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that young people...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 10:37AM EDT
Netflix renews #blackAF for Season 2
Kenya Barris' comedy starring him and Rashida Jones as a fictionalized version of his family has been picked up for...
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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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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...
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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 1:31PM EDT
Black-ish will return this fall instead of midseason because of its relevance to "this moment in time”
When ABC announced its "fall" schedule on Wednesday, Black-ish was missing, with plans for it to return at midseason.
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24AM EDT
Showrunners are being asked to cut extras and reconsider sex and fight scenes in the post-pandemic world
Crowds, hugs and handshakes are being avoided, while sex and fight scenes have to be reconsidered as TV shows return...
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Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 5:53PM EDT
Netflix cancels Kenya Barris' Astronomy Club after one season
The Barris-produced sketch show starring the Upright Citizens Brigade’s first all-black troupe Astronomy Club, tackling sketches around social issues and...
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Posted Tuesday 6/02/20 at 7:52PM EDT
Black-ish tonight will re-air its 2016 police brutality episode
The February 2016 "Hope" episode is more relevant than ever in June 2020.
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Posted Saturday 5/09/20 at 5:00AM EDT
In defense of Kenya Barris' blackAF
Barris' Netflix comedy's "unapologetic tone — along with some other qualities — led to some heated reactions on social media,"...
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Posted Tuesday 5/05/20 at 1:02PM EDT
TV writers are trying to figure how and when to tackle coronavirus crisis
"We’re still very much in the middle of this,” says Black-ish's Kenya Barris, “and it’s really hard to write about...
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Posted Saturday 5/02/20 at 6:13AM EDT
Kenya Barris defends Rashida Jones' casting on #blackAF
Since premiering two weeks ago, Barris' Netflix comedy has sparked a social media debate over a lack of dark-skinned black...
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Posted Saturday 4/25/20 at 8:00AM EDT
Kenya Barris' #blackAF unintentionally reveals his real struggle: That he only values the opinions of white audiences and critics
"Approval from his own community is meaningless if it isn’t couched in white validation," says Cate Young.
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Posted Saturday 4/18/20 at 4:08AM EDT
Netflix's #blackAF struggles to get beyond Kenya Barris’ penchant for self-aggrandizement
The Black-ish creator's semi-autobiographical comedy #blackAF is yet "another comedy culled from Barris’ own life, this time dressed up in...