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TV Network Bounces Cosby Show From Lineup Following Guilty Verdict
Bounce TV, a network geared toward African-American viewers, has removed reruns of The Cosby Show from its lineup following Bill Cosby’s conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault Thursday afternoon. Deadline reports that the move to drop the classic 1980s sitcom was announced by the digital network in a statement Thursday. “Effective immediately,…
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Bounce TV Launches Brown Sugar Streaming Service on Amazon
I remember during my freshman year in college, I took a black-film class and sat through hours and hours of blaxploitation movies. From Shaft to every Melvin Van Peebles film ever made, the class was an eye-opener when it came to black movie classics. And now you’ll be able to stream those films on Amazon.com,…
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Unique Views Podcast, Episode 23: It's Family Time With Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell
This is the second time that the pod squad—myself, Ms. Patti LaDanielle, and The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr.—have had something to do with Bounce TV. So excuse us if we’re feeling ourselves a bit. OK, so maybe I am feeling myself, by myself, but that’s because Stephen doesn’t deserve to feel himself.…
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Unique Views, Episode 20: Jive Turkey, Featuring Pam Grier
Are you like me? Have you ever wished that there was a bigger, blacker Netflix for all the blaxploitation movies of the past? Well, wait no more! Introducing Brown Sugar, the biggest, baddest, blackest mutha— Patti LaDanielle: Shut yo’ mouth! Just talking about Brown Sugar on Bounce TV. Seriously, the service is dope, free for the first…
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#WeWontBeSilent: 2 Things the DOJ Can Do Now to Stop Police Violence
Two more black men became a hashtag on Twitter last week: Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. It’s a modern marker of our times, of an unnatural death publicly witnessed through a cellphone-camera lens. They were both killed by police officers for dubious reasons: They owned guns in states where carrying guns publicly is legal, but…