W. Kamau Bell

After spending the early aughts perched on the high horse of respectability politics, Cosby falls down to Earth. Hannibal Buress tells a joke in Philadelphia, a chorus of survivors speak…

Cosby strikes gold with ”The Cosby Show,” a genre-defining family sitcom and monument to Black excellence. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he parlays our affection for his characters into even…

“Hey, hey, hey” it’s the 1970s and Bill Cosby’s on a circuitous path to becoming an on-screen educator and moral authority – a man we thought we could trust. Whether…

In the 1960s Cosby is collecting accolades for his comedy, breaking barriers for Black stunt performers and finding his own ways of participating in the nation’s sexual liberation and civil…