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Colin Kaepernick for its next project: The streamer has ordered “Colin in Black & White,” a limited series based on the athlete and activist’s teenage years, TVLine has learned.Spanning six episodes, the drama will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school experience, “lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him to become the activist he is today,” per the official description.

detailed his journey of buying the house, which was built in the early 1800s by slaves.Under a picture of him grinning outside a two-hundred-year-old colonial house, Hartwell wrote: “3 weeks ago I found this house online. I said ‘this is my house’.

Twitter. “It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years,” he wrote.

told Yahoo Entertainment.The song would join a long line of cultural mainstays that are rebranding after the Black Lives Matter protests — foods such as Eskimo Pies and Aunt Jemima syrup among them.The song was originally a poem written in September 1814, during the Battle of Baltimore, by Francis Scott Key, who owned slaves. The poem was eventually set to music and became the country’s official anthem in 1931.

cadre of adult-male fans who call themselves “Bronies” and cosplay as colorful anthropomorphic horses.The irreverent subculture arose about a decade ago, with the now-notoriously problematic 4Chan platform as the site of Bronies’ inception. By 2012, the conclave created a channel all their own, a website called Derpibooru.

several petitions to have the Anaheim, California, and Orlando, Florida, parks update the ride have garnered thousands of signatures in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.“Song of the South” is a 1946 film from the Mickey Mouse studio and is largely considered to be the company’s most-racist work because of its stereotypical depiction of black people.“Splash Mountain — at both Disneyland park in California and Magic Kingdom park in Florida — will soon be completely reimagined,” Disney

Three episodes of hit U.S. TV show “Scrubs” have been pulled from streaming service Hulu over characters using blackface.

Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell might’ve garnered online praise after stepping down from voicing biracial TV characters this week amid accusations of whitewashing.

gone from HBO Max, having been restored to the streaming service’s library with a new prologue about the film’s problematic themes and depictionof the antebellum South.Jacqueline Stewart, host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights” and a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, leads the 4 ½-minute intro, which starts off with a general cinematic lesson — recounting the eight Academy Awards (including for Best Picture) won in 1939 by the “highly anticipated”

“Days of Our Lives” actress Melissa Reeves is catching heat from her co-stars and the long-running soap’s fans for coming out against the Black Lives Matter movement.Earlier this week it was revealed that Reeves — who has played Jennifer Horton on the NBC sudser on and off for the past three decades — “liked” several anti-BLM posts from right-wing activist Candace Owens on Instagram.We all have our own opinions and views! That’s what make the USA the land of the free and home of the brave!

After a a string of anti-Semitic and racist outbursts made him unemployable for close to a decade, Oscar winner Mel Gibson crawled back to relevance behind the camera in 2016 with Hacksaw Ridge.

Hacksaw Ridge.It seemed time had allowed people to, if not forgive, then forget his troubled past.But in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, actress Winona Ryder recounted her experiences with anti-Semitism within the movie industry and revealed that the Braveheart star once asked her if she was an “oven dodger.”Ryder, who is Jewish, alleges that she was at a party when Gibson made the comment.“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and

In the wake of the controversy surrounding accusations that his wife, Jessica, tried to “silence a Black woman,” Ben Mulroney has announced he is stepping away from CTV’s flagship entertainment program etalk, which he has co-hosted since 2002.

changed his speech pattern in an attempt to adopt the voice of black comedian George Wallace, in what host Adam Carolla called Kimmel’s “crazy black voice.” Kimmel acknowledged imitating black people on other occasions as well.Kimmel, who is slated to host the Emmy Awards this year, announced last week that he’s taking the summer off amid a brewing blackface controversy; he has not issued an apology.In the Christmas track, a singer mentioned a “fat n—- in a sleigh giving sh— away,” referring to

etalk, which he has co-hosted since 2002.Mulroney made the announcement Monday morning during a segment on Your Morning, which he co-anchors with Anne-Marie Mediwake, along with Lindsey Deluce, Kelsey McEwen and Melissa Grelo.CTV, Cityline, Hudson’s Bay and Good Morning America have all cut ties with Jessica Mulroney after she was accused of targeting a Toronto lifestyle influencer’s career in private Instagram messages earlier this month.Sasha Exeter had urged followers to use their platform to

not by taking the summer off from “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”That’s the coward’s way out.Kimmel needs to apologize for the resurfaced blackface sketches that aired during his days on Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” (1999-2004), which included him playing NBA star Karl Malone and a parody of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” called “Oprah Jimfrey.” You can only imagine.

Amid the civil unrest that has flared in the US cities after the death of George Floyd, Padma Lakshmi opened up about discussing the issue of racism with her 10-year-old daughter Krishna. Ever since Floyd died after police officer Derek Chauvin handcuffed him and kneeled on his neck rendering him unable to breathe, people have been openly protesting against racial injustice in large numbers.

yanked it June 9 because of its “racist depictions” in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police last month, which led to mass protests worldwide. Now the network is planning to take its time in bringing it back to an audience.“We are being slow and careful, and I think that’s the right response.

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tells People. “MTV strongly condemns systemic racism and stands with those raising their voices against injustice.”Selfridge, 25, originally appeared on “Are You the One?” in 2017 and “Ex on the Beach” in 2018, where she met Wharton, 29.

UPDATE: An HBO Max spokesperson says “Gone With the Wind” will eventually return to the platform with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of its racist depictions.On Tuesday, HBO Max removed the 1939 film from its library in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd.“’Gone With The Wind’ is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society.

according to Variety, which adds that the other two networks yanked the content this week. All three streamers also removed the comedians’ follow-up 2010 film “Come Fly With Me.”“There’s a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer which we regularly review,” a BBC spokesperson told Variety.

made national headlines after a video he shot of a white woman in Central Park calling the police on him following a dispute over her failure to keep her dog on a leash is using his temporary platform to endorse New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres for an open congressional seat in the South Bronx.Cooper, an openly gay East Village resident, has a history of LGBTQ activism, including participating in a counter-protest against a 2011 rally held by then-State Sen. Ruben Díaz, Sr.