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Titans star Anna Diop disables her Instagram comments after receiving racist abuse
The release of the DC Universe trailer for Titans last week reignited racist conversations about Diop's portrayal of Starfire, aka...
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Posted Thursday 7/12/18 at 5:29PM EDT
More people of color were nominated for Emmys this year than ever before
According to TV Guide's tally, 38 people of color were nominated in the top categories, form Lin-Manuel Miranda to Sandra...
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Posted Tuesday 7/03/18 at 3:01PM EDT
Anne of Green Gables gets its first black character thanks to Netflix's Anne with an E
Canadian actor Dalmar Abuzeid will play the Afro-Caribbean character Sebastian Lacroix on the Netflix drama from Canada's CBC.
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Posted Monday 6/25/18 at 6:21AM EDT
Netflix airs "Strong Black Lead" commercial during BET Awards, two days after firing its PR chief for using the N-word
The commercial that ran during the BET Awards, featuring prominent black Netflix stars and creators from Spike Lee to Ava...
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Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 7:45PM EDT
Racial jokes on network sitcoms too often reinforce stereotypes instead of subverting them
There is nothing wrong with jokes about race, says Yoonj Kim, who spent a week in March studying every network...
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Posted Friday 5/25/18 at 7:45PM EDT
Analyzing Black Lightning's first season
The CW DC Comics series was about the afro-present, in contrast to the afro-futurism of Marvel's Black Panther.
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Posted Tuesday 5/22/18 at 10:30PM EDT
Issa Rae: Insecure was inspired by the predominantly black TV shows I grew up on: Living Single, A Different World, Girlfriends
Those kind of shows just disappeared, says Rae in a GQ profile.
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Dear White People's Justin Simien pens "love letter" analyzing Donald Glover's "This Is America"
The Dear White People creator, who is four months older than Glover, was blown away by Childish Gambino's "This Is...
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Bill Cosby was good at his job, and that's why Cliff Huxtable was his "sickest joke"
"If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn’t do better...
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Scandal helped define the Obama era, but may have also predicted the rise of Trump
Scandal outlived its own era, the Obama era, and was effectively made irrelevant by Trump's victory, says Daniel D'Addario.
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Posted Wednesday 4/18/18 at 11:16PM EDT
Roseanne's jab at Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat was "a dog whistle so strong that it might have brought Lassie back from the dead"
According to Emily Nussbaum, that one controversial joke about "all the shows about black and Asian families" explains Roseanne.
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Posted Saturday 4/14/18 at 12:07AM EDT
Asian-American Bob's Burgers writer shares the aftermath of criticizing a Roseanne joke
Kelvin Yu, who also appears on Master of None, went viral with his tweets slamming Roseanne for a joke taking...
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Atlanta is "a show about nothing while being a show about everything
In a way, Donald Glover's FX show could be described as "black Seinfeld," says Michael Harriot.
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Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 10:24PM EDT
It's simply not true that Roseanne is a rare comedy that tackles politics and the working class
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, in explaining last week why Roseanne in the wake of Trump's victory, said "we had...
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Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 10:24PM EDT
Donald Glover wasn't on set for this week's Atlanta episode because he was in character for the entire time
"There was no Donald on set whatsoever," Derrick Haywood says in describing Glover's method acting for last night's episode.