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Posted Wednesday 2/27/19 at 12:49AM EST
Tracee Ellis Ross was tasked with balancing humor and seriousness in Black-ish's "Black History Month" episode
Ross directed Tuesday's episode, titled "Black History Month," which saw three generations of Johnsons discuss what it means to be...
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Posted Saturday 2/09/19 at 12:41AM EST
Sonequa Martin-Green celebrates Black History Month by pointing to her historic Star Trek: Discovery role
"As the first Black woman to lead this franchise.
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Posted Friday 2/08/19 at 1:36PM EST
Octavia Spencer to play herself on Black-ish's Black History Month-themed episode
Tracee Ellis Ross will direct the Oscar-winning actress on the Feb.
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Posted Friday 2/08/19 at 1:05AM EST
Kristoff St. John's Neil Winters was a transformative black TV character
St.
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Posted Wednesday 1/16/19 at 5:17AM EST
Why Black-ish devoted an episode to colorism
"Colorism is best defined as varsity racism — an advanced form of prejudice where people are discriminated against based on...
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Posted Saturday 12/15/18 at 12:22AM EST
Ellen Cleghorne recalls her 1990s experience as a black woman on SNL
Cleghorne, who was in the cast of Saturday Night Live from 1991 through 1995, was technically the third black woman...
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Megyn Kelly delivers an emotional on-air apology as guests lecture her on why blackface is wrong
“I want to begin with two words, I’m sorry.
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Posted Wednesday 10/24/18 at 10:24AM EDT
Megyn Kelly's Today colleagues pillory her over her blackface comments
“The fact is, while she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the...
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Posted Wednesday 9/19/18 at 10:06PM EDT
Thad Mumford, Emmy-winning black TV writer who blazed a trail writing for white shows in the 1970s, dies at 67
Mumford wrote for M*A*S*H and Maude in the 1970s, when black writers in white writers' rooms were extremely rare.
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Posted Monday 9/10/18 at 2:00PM EDT
Netflix execs are silent on a Louis CK comeback, but they address concerns over the lack of black female comedians and too many comedy specials
The New York Times' comedy critic Jason Zinoman sat down with Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s vice president of original documentary and...
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Posted Sunday 9/09/18 at 12:19PM EDT
Emmys make history with black actors sweeping all guest categories
The Creative Arts Emmy Awards had a historic night on Saturday with black actors winning all guest acting categories in...
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Posted Thursday 8/30/18 at 10:02PM EDT
LeBron James' The Shop on HBO is an unfiltered glimpse of the black experience in present-day America
The barbershop-set talk show, which premiered this week, "lovingly seizes the aura and aesthetics of the barbershop, historically a revered...
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Posted Monday 8/27/18 at 10:30PM EDT
"The Omarosa Effect": The former Apprentice villain and Trump advisor has done real harm to cultural representation of black women
"Like the archetype of the 'strong black woman' (i.
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Posted Thursday 8/23/18 at 10:35PM EDT
Turner Classic Movies to examine "The Black Experience in Film" in partnership with the African-American Critics Association
From Sept.
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Insecure tackles the lack of black sitcom reboots
Season 3's "show within a show" spoof, Kev'yn, was inspired by Roseanne and the flurry of 1990s sitcom reboots, but...