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Deadline reports NBCUniversal will remove four episodes of 30 Rock from streaming services and syndication that featured characters in blackface. The removal comes at the request of series creator Tina Fey and executive producer Robert Carlock. “As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors […]
The CW and Warner Bros. TV announced in a joint statement Monday that Hartley Sawyer was fired from The Flash after old racist and misogynistic tweets surfaced. “In regards to Mr. Sawyer’s posts on social media, we do not tolerate derogatory remarks that target any race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation,” the statement reads, per […]
Don’t ask Daniel Kaluuya about race. The Get Out star recently told the UK’s Radio Times that it is “boring” to be asked the same questions about the topic over and over again, according to The Guardian. That might be difficult considering he’s reportedly set to play the Black Panther Fred Hampton in a forthcoming film, […]
Fresh off the news that his latest $175 million budget film Doolittle is projected to lose $100 million at the box office, Robert Downey Jr. is enveloped in a wave of bad press as his remarks in a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast about donning blackface in Tropic Thunder have started to circulate. In the 2008 Ben Stiller-directed comedy, Downey Jr. plays an Australian-born actor named Kirk […]
Trump, whose contributions to cinema are of no value to anyone, said some shit about Hollywood while grazing outside the White House Friday. This particular shit, as with previous instances of him opening his mouth, smacks of echoed nonsensical comments from his increasingly complicit base of followers. Trump’s latest comments of this variety came in […]
Afton Williamson explained on Instagram Sunday, why she left ABC’s The Rookie, where she played one of the show’s main characters, Talia Bishop. In a lengthy message posted Sunday, Williamson revealed that she was subjected to racial discrimination by the hair department, and bullying from the show’s executive producers dating as far back as filming of the pilot episode. Williamson claims she was sexually […]
Green Book screenwriter Nick Vallelonga has issued an apology in response to the unearthing of a 2015 tweet where he claimed to see Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey “cheering” the Sept. 11 attacks. “I want to apologize,” Vallelonga said in a statement, per Variety. “I spent my life trying to bring this story of overcoming differences and […]
Whether you look at Ryan Coogler spearheading Black Panther, or Jordan Peele revitalizing the thriller genre with Get Out, or Steven Caple Jr. taking the mantle in Creed II, or Steve McQueen at the helm of an all-female cast in Widows, or Barry Jenkins following up the success of Moonlight with the highly anticipated If Beale Street Could Talk, African-American filmmakers are […]
