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Posted Friday 12/03/21 at 2:34PM EST
Rob McElhenney: Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia revisited our past use of blackface
It's Always Sunny's past homages to Lethal Weapon featured McElhenney's Mac and Kaitlin Olson's Dee wearing blackface, while Danny DeVito's...
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Posted Thursday 3/25/21 at 11:42PM EDT
Peacock is removing or altering racist moments from WWE archive
NBC Universal is reviewing all 17,000 hours of WWE content to ensure it aligns with Peacock's standards and practices, according...
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Posted Thursday 3/25/21 at 2:56PM EDT
Homeland alum David Harewood to host a BBC documentary on the history of blackface
In Blackface with David Harewood, the British actor will explore the origins of blackface in early 19th-century America and how...
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Posted Wednesday 11/18/20 at 1:35PM EST
David Cross says that for Netflix, pulling W/ Bob & David's blackface episode "was an easy, albeit thoughtless, decision to make"
"I was very surprised and disappointed," Cross tells The Last Laugh podcast.
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Posted Friday 9/18/20 at 1:30PM EDT
The View goes off the rails after a Black GOP congressional candidate brought up Joy Behar's blackface past
Kim Klacik, who's running a long-shot race in Baltimore, had a civil appearance on the ABC daytime talk show this...
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Posted Wednesday 9/16/20 at 1:48PM EDT
Chris Rock: "I don’t think Jimmy Fallon intended to hurt me" when he wore blackface to impersonate me on SNL
In a New York Times interview, Rock spoke for the first time about Fallon donning blackface on Saturday Night Live...
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Posted Tuesday 8/18/20 at 10:56AM EDT
TV historians fear that pulled problematic episodes could become lost to history
The New York Times examines what actually happens when controversial episodes are pulled, like the blackface episodes that were yanked...
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Posted Thursday 8/13/20 at 1:35PM EDT
Michael Schur weighs in on 30 Rock's blackface episodes, Brooklyn Nine-Nine's response to Black Lives Matter protests and Megan Amram's past offensive tweets
Schur also discussed The Good Place series finale in a wide-ranging conversation with Vulture.
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Posted Saturday 7/18/20 at 4:26AM EDT
Stargirl star Anjelika Washington posts a photo from a previous TV show of her white stunt double in blackface
“Flashback to 2017.
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Posted Wednesday 7/15/20 at 2:22PM EDT
Idris Elba: Racist films and TV shows should come with a warning, instead of being pulled
“To mock the truth, you have to know the truth.
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Posted Saturday 7/11/20 at 3:24AM EDT
Prof calls pulling of blackface episodes patronizing to the Black Lives Matter movement
Alfred Martin, an assistant professor of communications studies at the University of Iowa who is doing a research on The...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Forget the alleged blackface: The Golden Girls was mired in racism and rape culture throughout its run
As Steven W.
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TV's "now problematic" episodes have always been problematic
There's a natural tendency to blame "cancel culture" when TV shows and movies we like become "problematic now," says Jeva...
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Posted Wednesday 7/01/20 at 12:30PM EDT
Mad Men's blackface episode to receive a title card disclaimer as it finds new homes on AMC Networks and IMDb TV
The Season 3 episode "My Old Kentucky Home" episode that features John Slattery's Roger Sterling singing in blackface to his bride...
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Posted Wednesday 7/01/20 at 12:30PM EDT
BBC's iPlayer begins adding a warning for past shows containing offensive material in response to blackface controversy
Shows like The League Of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh will carry an "i" logo, carrying warning that the episodes...