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Robert Johnson, the founder of BET and an avid critic of activists on the left of the political spectrum, thinks the removal of confederate statues is not an important issue for Black people. The death of a Black man named George Floyd in Minnesota last month has sparked a lot of unrest around the country and launched conversations about police brutality and racism.

Sir Elton John and husband David Furnish discussed police brutality, equality, COVID-19, and a number of other important world issues with Katie Couric, as part of TIME 100 Talks on June 25. The interview addressed systemic racism and how the couple, who are founders of Elton John Aids Foundation, is getting involved with much-needed change.

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Jenny Slate announced that she can no longer voice Missy — a character that's been lauded as sensitive portrayal of sweet, weird, and brilliant Black girls — on Netflix's Big Mouth. "At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White — as am I. But Missy is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people," said Slate.

Jenny Slate, who has voiced the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald since the 2017 Netflix debut of Big Mouth, has decided to leave the series to make room for a Black actor to join the show.“I have come to the decision today that I can no longer play the character of ‘Missy’ on the animated TV show Big Mouth.

Jenny Slate is leaving Big Mouth.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJenny Slate is exiting her role as Missy (pictured above, center) on the Netflix show “Big Mouth” due to the character being biracial while Slate is white.“At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play ‘Missy’ because her mom is Jewish and white — as am I,” Slate wrote on Instagram.

Stevie Wonder celebrated Juneteenth last Friday (June 19), but he wasn't quite jumping for joy.He urged his fans to keep the momentum of the movement going in his YouTube video from today (June 23) titled "The Universe Is Watching Us." And Wonder certainly let some state officials, as well as President Donald Trump, know he was watching them closely."It's a bad day when I can see better than your 2020 vision," the blind singer-songwriter quipped in the five-minute video message.

Bubba Wallace is “not shocked” that some people online doubt the truth about finding a noose hanging in his garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.

Whitefield Jsky, 33, says people would cross the road to avoid him.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerThe Juneteenth holiday celebrates June 19th, 1865, the day enslaved Texans finally received the message of the Emancipation Proclamation — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the executive order that put an end to slavery in America.

In a pandemic, there are roughly two types of stay-at-homers. There are the ones who lean into the nothingness, racking up eight different Netflix shows a day in last week’s tracksuit bottoms and accepting that this just isn’t their year.

Lady Gaga fan got the ultimate gift from the singer and activist. Shannon McKee, 27, opened up to the show about her exchange with the 34-year-old «Rain on Me» singer at a Malibu, California, market. McKee says she first encountered Gaga when she commented on the GRAMMY winner's jacket. «I walked in and I was like, 'Hey, that's a really bad a** jacket you got on,» McKee recalls.

revealed last week that he’d been stopped by LAPD officers while jogging recently and that one cop placed a knee on Pharoah’s neck, said on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday that black people in America are made to “feel like we’re guilty until proven innocent.”Pharoah, 32, described an emotional phone conversation he had with his mother after the police incident in April.“I called my mom and told her what happened,” Pharoah told co-host Gayle King. “My dad was on the phone too.

Rita Moreno believes President Donald Trump, through his words and actions, is giving racists permission to speak out. The legendary actress appeared on a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” where she shared her thoughts on the ongoing protests over systemic racism and police brutality happening throughout the U.S.

Jordan Peele is making some power moves in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.