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W. Kamau Bell has been working to make racism (and other stuff) funny since long before his Emmy-winning
United Shades Of America his the CNN airwaves back in 2016. The stand-up comic turned civic-minded reality host (he still does stand-up) appeared in person at
Conan’s Largo temporary headquarters on Thursday to, once more, take his fact-based comic take on race in America on the road, telling host Conan O’Brien that, compared to flying all over the country filming the most recent United Shades season, driving in from Oakland wasn’t a big deal. (For anyone smart and fortunate enough to have stayed out of airports during the pandemic, Bell reported getting a serious
Justin Phillips May 1, 2021Updated: May 2, 2021, 1:08 pm
Video from the Vallejo Police Department’s body-worn camera footage of the fatal shooting of Willie McCoy in a Taco Bell drive-through is part of the season six premiere of CNN’s “United Shades of America: Policing the Police.” Photo: Vallejo Police Department
The sound bullets make when breaking through a windshield of a vehicle is hard to forget. And it’s a noise that still echoes in my ears after watching body cam footage of Vallejo police killing Sean Monterrosa and video of Vallejo police firing 55 bullets in 3.5 seconds at the car of Willie McCoy, both shown during the season six premiere of CNN’s “United Shades of America.”