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The Wire star Wendell Pierce has announced that he is starting a public campaign to become the voice of Family Guy character Cleveland Brown.Mike Henry, a white actor who has voiced the role of the black character since the cartoon’s beginning, announced last week that he would be stepping back from the part, saying “persons of colour should play characters of colour”.Following on from the news, Pierce tweeted: “Now that Mike Henry has consciously given up the role of Cleveland, I am publicly

Family Guy actor Mike Henry is stepping down from voicing the African-American character of Cleveland Brown to make way for a person of colour.Henry, who is white, originated the role back when the hit cartoon debuted in 1999, and also brought Brown to life on the spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, which ended after a four-season run in 2013. However, Henry has since announced he will no longer voice the part of Brown in the long-running Seth MacFarlane sitcom.

Hot New Hip Hop reported today that Mike Henry, who voiced the role of Cleveland Brown on Family Guy, finally stepped down from the position following more than two decades. On the 26th of June, the Family Guy cast member shared that he was stepping down from the position because he wasn’t a person of color.

After 20 years, actor #MikeHenry has decided to step away from voicing Black character #ClevelandBrown. He says a person of color should have the role instead.

Mike Henry, who has voiced the character of Cleveland Brown for two decades on "Family Guy," said on Friday that he is stepping down from the role on the FOX animated series. "It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years," Henry, 54, wrote on Twitter.

Major changes are on the way for both Family Guy and The Simpsons.

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

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerVoice actor Mike Henry said Friday on Twitter that he no longer will voice the Cleveland Brown character on Fox’s animated Family Guy.Henry, who is white, has voiced the African-American Brown since the show’s inception in 1999. He also voiced the character and his son, Rallo Tubbs, on the spinoff, The Cleveland Show, which ran for four years on Fox.Henry was a voice on Family Guy since its 1999 debut.

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huge blaze on Saddleworth Moor. Following the fire Oldham council banned barbecues, fireworks and sky lanterns on the moor.Anyone caught breaching the by-law, which also covers Marsden Moor, can be fined £100.

Much like its vampirical antagonist, AMC’s summer horror fare, “NOS4A2” recently began its second life.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine India has optioned Damyanti Biswas’s bestselling Indian crime novel You Beneath Your Skin to develop as a multi-part drama series, with all proceeds from the option going towards social enterprises in the author’s native New Delhi.Set in contemporary New Delhi, the multi-strand narrative concerns an Indian-American single mother and her autistic teenage son, whose comfortable middle-class lives are turned upside down by a police

Alicia Keys has released her powerful new track “Perfect Way To Die”, which chronicles the mourning of a mother whose son has been shot to death.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorIt’s been a cruel spring for sports fans as the coronavirus pandemic sidelined teams, players and leagues around the world. Kevin Hart feels that pain too, and today he premieres a new five-episode homebound season of his iced-down web series Cold as Balls.The first episode of Cold as Balls: Cold Calls, featuring NFL star Richard Sherman, debuts today on Hart’s and Lionsgate’s digital network Laugh Out Loud.

David Lynch has shared the first instalment of his 2002 web-series Rabbits via YouTube – you can watch it below.The 15-minute episode, uploaded earlier today (June 9), is the latest in an ongoing run of lockdown unearthings from the renowned filmmaker.Initially made available via Lynch’s official website in the ’00s, the short sees three human-rabbit characters conversing in a dark, old-fashioned living room.

A.D. Amorosi While they helped jump-start the 1960s, great protest songs had been few and far between in the past 50-odd years, apart from the occasional bolts of lightning like N.W.A’s “F— the Police” or Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” But 2020 is different, and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of police and vigilantes have let loose a wave of righteous rage and protests that have galvanized the world.

Ghostbusters are set to reunite for the latest edition of Josh Gad’s ‘Reunited Apart’ series.The Frozen star has previously brought together the stars of movies such as The Goonies and The Lord of the Rings for a series of lockdown reunions.The latest edition will focus on Ghostbusters – which was teased at the end of Gad’s Lord of the Rings reunion with the movie’s famous theme song.It is currently unclear which specific cast members will take part, though fans should expect the likes of Bill

On the 2nd of June, a comedian at a demonstration in LA reportedly gave police officers cans of Pepsi as a way of mocking Kendall Jenner, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, after her controversial Pepsi commercial in 2017. Comedian, Everett Bryam, took the opportunity on Tuesday to poke fun at the reality star and supermodel by mocking the infamous ad that capitalized on the protests occurring in the United States of America around that time.