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Why ‘Alice’ Star Keke Palmer Found Playing the Film’s Enslaved Lead Character ‘Empowering’ (Video)
By Diane Haithman | January 26, 2022 @ 12:28 PMSundance 2022: ”It was done from a place of yes, this happened, but I’m strong, I will survive and you won’t take my spirit,“ Palmer says about the film
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Hulu Moves ‘Love, Victor’ and ‘Taste the Nation’ Premiere Dates Out of Respect for Juneteenth
By Tim Baysinger | June 10, 2020 @ 8:32 AMThe series will now debut June 17 and June 18, respectively
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Why #BlackLivesMatter Matters: Because of How Little Has Changed for People Like Me (Commentary)
By Trey Williams | June 5, 2020 @ 12:47 PMIt’s been 401 years since slavery, 65 years since Emmett Till, and still black men and women are all but lynched in broad daylight
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White Tucker Carlson Guest Says African-Americans ‘Need to Move on’ From Slavery (Video)
By Jon Levine | February 22, 2019 @ 7:10 AMCarlson currently faces an advertiser boycott which has resulted in dozens of sponsors leaving his program
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Vogue Brazil Fashion Director Resigns Over ‘Slavery’ Birthday Party Photos
By Jon Levine | February 15, 2019 @ 7:49 AM”As a company, we have zero tolerance for racism and images evoking racism,“ Condé Nast International tells TheWrap
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Lana Del Rey Tells Kanye His Support of Trump ‘Is a Loss for the Culture’
By Jon Levine | September 30, 2018 @ 5:47 PM”Lust for Life“ singer joins a long list of celebrities and journalists dragging West for his most recent remarks
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Kanye Told ‘Shut the F– Up’ After Calling for Repeal of Amendment That Abolished Slavery
By Jon Levine | September 30, 2018 @ 2:15 PM”[Kanye] is truly an idiot,“ says former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien
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Kanye Calls for Abolishing 13th Amendment – Which Abolished Slavery
By Jon Levine | September 30, 2018 @ 12:21 PM”We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment,“ says West in a Twitter post
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Here’s a True Story About Slavery You’ve Never Heard: ‘Django Unchained’ Meets ‘Ocean’s 11’ (Podcast)
By Tim Molloy | May 2, 2018 @ 5:18 PMA story that arrives just in time for Kanye West
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‘Fox & Friends’ Backs Kanye West After TMZ Meltdown: ‘Good for Him’ (Video)
By Jon Levine | May 2, 2018 @ 8:40 AM”Donald Trump is one of rap people’s favorite guys,“ says co-host Steve Doocy
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Alabama Newspaper Apologizes for Historic Lynching Coverage: ‘We Were Wrong’
By Jon Levine | April 27, 2018 @ 7:27 AM”The Advertiser was careless in how it covered mob violence and the terror foisted upon African-Americans,“ says the Montgomery paper
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Denies That White House Supports Slavery (Video)
By Jon Levine | November 1, 2017 @ 1:04 PM”I think it is disgusting and absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery,“ says White House press secretary
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John Oliver Obliterates Confederacy-as-History Argument for Keeping Monuments (Video)
By Tony Maglio | October 9, 2017 @ 7:18 AM”Last Week Tonight“ host introduces world to the ”Hitler-Hanks Spectrum“
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‘Wheel of Fortune’ Yanks ‘Southern Charm Week’ Image After Slavery Claim
By Tim Kenneally | June 19, 2017 @ 2:43 PM”We regret the use of this background image, and we will be replacing it moving forward,“ executive producer of game show says
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Ben Affleck, PBS Under Fire for Trying to Hide Star’s Slave-Owning Ancestor
By Wrap Staff | April 19, 2015 @ 4:52 PMOscar winner asked network to censor ”Finding Your Roots“ segment, leaked Sony emails reveal