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Dave Chappelle tackles George Floyd protests in 8:46, a free surprise Netflix comedy special
Late Thursday, Netflix posted Chappelle's 27-minute surprise special to YouTube, titled 8:46 after Floyd's killing, that was filmed at a...
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24AM EDT
Inside Live PD's cancelation: "All involved bristled at the notion of Live PD being lumped in with Cops"
Insiders at the cable network felt they ultimately had no option but to cancel Live PD at this moment of...
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24AM EDT
Running From Cops podcasters react to Cops' cancelation, say Live PD was similarly egregious
Host Dan Taberski, producer Henry Molofsky and their team spent 18 months reviewing 876 Cops episodes for their Running From...
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24AM EDT
The Daily Show calls on Canada to invade America
Trevor Noah's correspondents spoofed the cringeworthy star-studded “I Take Responsibility” (for Racism) NAACP PSA while calling on Canada to invade...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 6:06PM EDT
Amazon is considering dropping The Dukes of Hazzard from IMDb TV over the Confederate flag
The racial reckoning following George Floyd's killing has already led to NASCAR banning the Confederate flag.
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 6:06PM EDT
Dan Abrams wishes Live PD didn't destroy its footage of Javier Ambler's death while in police custody
The Live PD host wrote on his Law and Crime website that the show would never have aired Ambler's death...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 1:49PM EDT
Will Jimmy Fallon's racial awakening following blackface controversy lead to true change on The Tonight Show?
Fallon tells The New York Times that he had to respond in his own voice after his past use of...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 1:49PM EDT
BET launches a $25 million “Content for Change" social justice initiative
BET says the iniative will "support the creation, distribution, marketing, and promotion of content aimed at ending systemic racism in...
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It will be hard to escape the legacy of Cops and other fear-mongering crime shows
The cancelation of Cops and Live PD this week are positive steps in reversing TV's flawed police portrayals, but that...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
Samantha Bee rips the media for calling bad cops "bad apples" and ignoring the Breonna Taylor case
“A police officer who murders someone isn’t a ‘bad apple,’” Bee said on this week's Full Frontal.
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
Oprah Winfrey calls for police reform in the second part of her Where Do We Go From Here? OWN town hall special
At the start of her second night of her two-part special airing on OWN and 18 other Discovery channels, Winfrey...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
Trevor Noah presses Joe Biden on defunding the police
Although the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee rejected the idea of defunding the police, conflating it with abolishing the police, The...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
A Big Brother all-star season would be a great way to avoid racist contestants amid racism reckoning
There is a big benefit to bringing back contestants who've already been vetted, says Dalton Ross.
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT
Wendell Pierce: The Wire is a "precursor" to police brutality controversy: "An indicator, a warning light, of the implosion we are feeling today"
Responding to a Hollywood Reporter TV critics' debate on TV police portrayals that said The Wire cops had "heroic gloss"...
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A&E cancels Live PD, one of cable's highest-rated shows, in wake of the George Floyd protests
A&E and Live PD producer MGM’s Big Fish Entertainment jointly agreed today to pull the plug on the cop reality...