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Yes, Baby, Yes: Remember That Shelved Controversial Black-ish Episode? It's Now Available on Hulu

2020 is unprecedented-ish. Remember back in 2017, a mysterious Black-ish episode titled “Please, Baby, Please” (based on the Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee children’s book of the same name) became wrapped in some controversy because of its reported politically-charged themes? It caused such a ruckus, and I pretty much figured the episode would never…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

August 11, 2020
An Open Letter to Kenya Barris Begging Him to Leak the Banned Episode of Black-ish

Dear Mr. Barris: I bring you greetings from Dem Cut Boyz barbershop in Birmingham, Ala., where the honorable Lamont Brinson is my barber. I send this letter after a delegation from my haircuttery elected me to speak on their behalf and, presumably, for all of our people. Yesterday, during our busiest time of the day,…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 11, 2018