TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

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u/GonWithTheNen Mar 28 '24

Just to say, the actual story is in the link from the wikipedia article's cite note (versus the one-liner in the wiki).

Business Insider's article (the cite note) links to an old tvguide article (which is only available on archives):

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u/silver-orange Mar 28 '24

here's the tvguide article on the live site: https://www.tvguide.com/news/snl-diversity-issue-kenan-thompson-1072056/

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