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Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 12:03AM EST
Black Lightning is the Black Lives Matter of TV shows, arriving on TV at a timely moment
“Black Lightning is slick, smart, and infused with a social conscience that feels especially spot-on in light of the heightened...
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Posted Friday 12/08/17 at 9:21PM EST
How Nickelodeon’s All That connected a writer to “my blackness”
Aisha Harris, who grew up in a white suburb, said All That introduced her to black artists like Missy Elliott...
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Posted Thursday 12/07/17 at 4:46AM EST
TV One cancels Roland Martin’s morning show NewsOne Now
Martin and his staffers of the black-themed morning show were shocked because their show was just expanded to two hours...
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Posted Wednesday 12/06/17 at 2:18PM EST
George R.R. Martin made sure that there was no whitewashing in his Nightflyers adaptation
When his 1980 novella was published, the female lead was drawn as a white woman when Martin intended her to...
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Posted Friday 11/17/17 at 7:14AM EST
Robin Thede’s The Rundown is “Black Twitter personified within the late-night mold”
The former head writer on Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show “takes from that familiar, white male–dominated genre and serves it up...
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Posted Monday 11/13/17 at 7:57AM EST
Tiffany Haddish thrived as an SNL rarity: A black female host
There have only been 12 black female hosts in Saturday Night Live’s 43-year history, and Haddish became the first black...
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Posted Friday 11/10/17 at 1:46PM EST
CBS Diversity Showcase is accused of being a “racist mess”
The program aimed at giving more opportunities to minorities and members of the LGBTQ community “often leaves participants feeling dejected...
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Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 2:48PM EDT
Study: Just 4.8% of TV writers are black
A UCLA professor's new study, titled “Race in the Writers’ Room: How Hollywood Whitewashes the Stories That Shape America,” found...
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Posted Monday 10/16/17 at 9:51PM EDT
Trevor Noah has made big Daily Show gains among black viewers, whose viewership declined under Jon Stewart
The Daily Show has gone from averaging 75,000 black viewers per night in 2015 under Stewart to averaging 134,000 black...
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Posted Friday 10/13/17 at 4:15AM EDT
Robin Thede’s BET talk show The Rundown “is a late-night show for a generation that’s tired of white men doing the same thing every night”
Thede transitioned seamlessly from being head writer on Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show 14 months ago to helming her own...
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Posted Tuesday 10/10/17 at 10:15PM EDT
Amber Ruffin still can’t believe she’s part of Late Night
Nearly four years after joining Seth Meyers — soon after SNL rejected her — Ruffin is still thrilled for her...
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Black-ish’s "Juneteenth: The Musical" was a comedy, a work of education and an indictment
“Every once in a while,” says Megan Garber, “a show will break out of the comfortable paradigm to engage in...
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Posted Wednesday 10/04/17 at 2:05PM EDT
Black-ish gives a powerful Juneteenth history lesson
Last night’s musical season premiere continued the ABC comedy’s trend of tackling tough subjects.
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Posted Tuesday 10/03/17 at 11:32PM EDT
SNL’s Michael Che called the N-word after saying Donald Trump is a “cheap cracker”
The Weekend Update co-anchor shared some of the outraged comments sent to him via Instagram after he angered some conservatives with...
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Posted Thursday 9/28/17 at 4:23PM EDT
Hugh Hefner was a TV pioneer in the way he put black artists on TV in the fifties
As Keli Goff notes, the Playboy founder “put black artists front and center on his television programs, first on Playboy’s...