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The View Celebrates Juneteenth With a Plea for Education: 'Black History is American History'
On Monday, The View celebrated Juneteenth with a special episode featuring an interview with civil rights attorney Ben Crump and...
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Posted Friday 6/18/21 at 1:52PM EDT
Celebrate Juneteenth with TV specials and documentaries
In 2020, networks used June 19 holiday to discuss the nationwide protests in wake of George Floyd's killing.
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Meghan McCain Asks a Juneteenth Scholar About... Cancel Culture
Meghan McCain was relatively tame this morning after yesterday's blow-up with Whoopi Goldberg, but she still delivered a classic MM...
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Posted Thursday 5/13/21 at 7:13PM EDT
ABC News' Soul of a Nation will return with two primetime specials: Commemorating the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death and Juneteenth.
After Floyd: The Year that Shook the World – A Soul of a Nation Special will air May 25, the...
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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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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
Watchmen Tulsa Race Massacre director: "I just really wanted to vomit" when I heard Trump was speaking in Tulsa
Nicole Kassell filmed the Watchmen pilot's depiction of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre two years ago on the same days...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 11:55PM EDT
For Sherman's Showcase creators, "It's almost like the world caught up to us" with their Black History Month Spectacular's premiere
“We could have never known that this was gonna happen the way that it happened,” co-creator Diallo Riddle says of...
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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 Friday 6/19/20 at 2:45PM EDT
CNN begins capitalizing both "Black" and "White" in reference to race
“When referring to the racial categories of Black and White, CNN style is changing to capitalizing both words,” wrote Tim...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 2:45PM EDT
Wyatt Cenac: Maybe HBO will leave Problem Areas up on YouTube "if enough bots get the views up"
HBO posted all two seasons of Cenac's Problem Areas on YouTube in early June, but is only making them available...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 2:45PM EDT
Chris Rock marks Juneteenth by posting his 1999 The Chris Rock Show visit to South Carolina to tackle the Confederate Flag
Watch Rock propose potential alternatives to the Confederate Flag to South Carolinians.
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 2:45PM EDT
12-year-old This Is Us star Lonnie Chavis on dealing with racism: "My life matters, but does it?"
"America paints a very clear picture of how I should view myself," Chavis writes in a People magazine essay.
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 2:45PM EDT
Amber Ruffin answers frequently asked Juneteenth questions on Late Night
Watch Ruffin answer questions such as: "If I'm white, can I celebrate Juneteenth?" and "If Juneteenth falls on a weekend,...
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Posted Friday 6/19/20 at 4:18AM EDT
Here's a roundup of Juneteenth programming
BET will celebrate Juneteenth on Friday with a “Juneteenth Freedom Day Marathon," AMC and IFC will present Sherman's Showcase Black...