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They don’t have to deal with this in a galaxy far, far away. John Boyega, who anchored the most recent “Star Wars” films as Finn, has taken to Instagram Live for a fiery address after sparring with fans on Twitter earlier Wednesday. “I really f–king hate racists,” Boyega, 28, wrote on Twitter early Wednesday. His …
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Video footage shot Monday by a bystander shows a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man, who can be heard pleading with the officers before passing out and later dying in police custody. “I cannot breathe! I cannot breathe!” the man, identified as George Floyd, can be heard yelling, along …
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Jimmy Fallon has apologized for donning blackface in a resurfaced 2000 “Saturday Night Live” skit that had many calling to “cancel” him. The 45-year-old host of “The Tonight Show” issued a statement Tuesday in a tweet and thanked fans for holding him “accountable.” “In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do …
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“CBS This Morning” anchor Gayle King was visibly shaken on-air Tuesday after viewing footage of two racially charged incidents that occurred over the weekend. Video of the first, in which Amy Cooper, a white woman calls police falsely claiming that a black man, Christian Cooper, was threatening her life, went viral, sparking outrage on social …
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Fellow “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay has opened up on how she was disappointed by Hannah Brown’s apology for saying the N-word while singing the lyrics to a song on Instagram. Lindsay, who is the only black series lead in the history of “The Bachelorette” and “The Bachelor,” said Brown told her she was going to …
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Reality TV star Hannah Brown has been forced to apologize after using the N-word in a live social media post — with other Bachelor Nation stars leading the attacks. The 25-year-old “Dancing With the Stars” champ uttered the racial slur with a giant smile while singing DaBaby’s “Rockstar” on an Instagram live story for her 2.8 …
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Mika GadsdenFacebook She’s southern — and charmless. Bravo TV’s “Southern Charm” personality Kathryn Dennis is being called out as racist after sending a monkey emoji to a black radio show host. The Charleston, South Carolina native, had an ugly spat with radio host and activist Mika Gadsden over a planned “Trump Boat Parade” being thrown …
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“Blue Bloods” costumer Trenena “Trina” Patterson is accusing the show’s top costume designer, Michael Woll, of race discrimination and unlawful termination in an explosive lawsuit she filed against him and ViacomCBS in March. The suit claims Woll asked a co-worker, “Why would you hire that little black girl? She looks like a hot ghetto mess” …
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Actor John Cho has penned a candid essay about the racial discrimination Asian Americans currently face amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the op-ed, published Wednesday for The Los Angeles Times, the South Korean-born “Harold & Kumar” star confessed that it “felt so strange” for him to warn his parents about leaving their house, worried they …
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Lululemon apologized Tuesday after a clueless executive promoted a T-shirt design for “bat fried rice” that drew accusations of anti-Asian sentiment amid the coronavirus pandemic. Senior global art director, Trevor Fleming, had shared a T-shirt on his Instagram page Sunday that showed a Chinese takeout box and pair of chopsticks with bat wings. The apparel, …
They don’t have to deal with this in a galaxy far, far away. John Boyega, who anchored the most recent “Star Wars” films as Finn, has taken to Instagram Live for a fiery address after sparring with fans on Twitter earlier Wednesday. “I really f–king hate racists,” Boyega, 28, wrote on Twitter early Wednesday. His …
