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Mar 27, 2023 · CNN —. TV personality Nick Cannon has addressed his past antisemitic remarks, describing the subsequent fallout as “a growth moment.”. In 2020, the “ Masked Singer ” host was briefly ...
By Marina Watts. Staff Writer. Nick Cannon has broken his silence regarding his recent firing from ViacomCBS after making anti-semitic comments. The TV personality took to Facebook on July 15 and ...
Mar 27, 2023 · Nick Cannon says he's learned — and is still learning — from his mistakes. The actor and comedian sparked backlash for perpetuating anti-Semitism with comments he made in 2020. "I'm gonna be ...
Jul 16, 2020 · Nick Cannon has apologized for comments he made on a podcast that were deemed anti-Semitic and resulted in him being dropped by ViacomCBS. "I feel ashamed," Cannon wrote in a series of social ...
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Griff grew up in Roosevelt, New York, on Long Island, alongside Carlton Ridenhour, who is known by his rap moniker, Chuck D. Chuck D was the eventual frontman for Public Enemy, but Griff played a key role in imbuing the group with its famously militant Black Power approach to rap. Before Richard became Professor Griff, he had learned it from an Isl...
Executives at CBS Records, which distributed Def Jam’s work, threatened to cut the band off unless they defused the situation. Public Enemy’s manager, Lyor Cohen, who like Adler is Jewish, as well as other Def Jam officials, pushed Chuck D to fire Griff publicly. Hank Shocklee, a member of the group’s production team, and Bill Stephney, the Def Jam...
That August, Chuck quietly allowed Griff to return to Public Enemy, but forced him to stay in the background; he received no writing credits on most of the group’s subsequent albums. But Griff’s return and new title, “Supreme Allied Chief of Community Relations,” rankled Cooper, who said he told Chuck D at the time, “we weren’t satisfied.” Abe Foxm...
So when the Professor got an invitation to speak at a synagogue last year, he thought it was a joke. It came via Khalid el-Hakim, a teacher and historian Griff met in 2003 at a talk in Detroit, Michigan. El-Hakim operates the Black History 101 Mobile Museum,which showcases more than 10,000 artifacts from the slave-trade period through the advent of...
Griff, Gerber and el-Hakim thought they had made some progress. They planned to have more public talks together, but the pandemic put that on hold. Then the podcast happened, and Griff felt both unfairly maligned and sidelined all over again: Instead of Chuck D answering for him in 1989, now it was Nick Cannon. Same meetings with Rabbi Abraham Coop...
Jul 16, 2020 · Nick Cannon has issued an apology following criticism over anti-Semitic comments he made during a recent episode of his podcast.“First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies ...
Jul 17, 2020 · It’s subtle — shrouded in absent-minded stereotyping, unchallenged colloquialisms, tepid rebukes of inflammatory remarks like the ones recently made by DeSean Jackson and Nick Cannon or, even ...
