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W. Kamau Bell Talks Mixed-Race Documentary And Battling Twitter Trolls
The HBO documentary film, 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed, was born out of Bell's own experience with his mixed-race children.
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W. Kamau Bell Talks Meeting The KKK And The Power Of Meaningful TV
W. Kamau Bell's CNN show, "United Shades of America," dives deep into cultural issues underreported in the mainstream media.
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W. Kamau Bell On Being A Comedian and Wishing He Was Kevin Hart
The comedian and host of CNN's United Shades of America shares his thoughts on his rise to fame.
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White Producers Threw W. Kamau Bell to the KKK on Day 1, so He Got Rid of Them
W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America became infamous for its first episode, “The New KKK,” in 2016. In the series opener, Bell attends a cross-burning ceremony and interviews hooded Klansmen. At the end of the cross burning, Bell poignantly states, “I actually feel lucky. Unlike most of the black people in this country who…
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Watch: The Café That Discriminated Against W. Kamau Bell Just Shut Down, but the Storm’s Not Over
W. Kamau Bell was chatting with his wife, his baby girl and his wife’s friends at an outdoor table of the Elmwood Cafe in Berkeley, Calif., when an employee assumed that he was “harassing” them. This happened on Jan. 26, 2015, his birthday. According to Bell, the employee knocked on the window from the inside…
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W. Kamau Bell on How to Solve Chicago’s Violence and Why Black Celebrities Host Shows About Race
Comedian W. Kamau Bell gives a lot of credit to Chris Rock for taking a big chance on him in 2012 by executive-producing his first show, Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell, on FX. “He basically gave me my career,” Bell said to The Root. “He might say differently: ‘You would have made it some…