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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Did Matt James become the first Black Bachelor because of white "gatekeepers" Hannah Brown and Tyler Cameron?
James faces an "impossible role" as the first Black Bachelor, says Andrea Reindl.
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Blackface has long been an issue with SNL, going beyond Jimmy Fallon
Fallon's apology last month for wearing blackface on Saturday Night Live while impersonating Chris Rock in 2000 is a reminder...
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Posted Friday 6/26/20 at 3:15AM EDT
Black TV writers are getting hired, but they're not getting promoted
Black writers are getting more opportunities writing for television, but so few of them have supervising producer roles.
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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 1:42PM EDT
NFL star Malcolm Jenkins to produce a docuseries on the history of Black wealth
The two-time Super Bowl champion, whom CNN recently hired as a commentator on race and justice, will produce Little Africa,...
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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
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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Tina Fey has a problematic history with race that goes beyond 30 Rock's blackface
When Fey apologized and pulled four 30 Rock episodes on Monday over their use of blackface, some pointed out that...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:12AM EDT
Here are 11 essential Black TV series you can watch right now
The Bernie Mac Show, Chappelle's Show and Roc are among the past shows that are relevant amid Black Lives Matter...
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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 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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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.