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John Wayne Exhibit to Be Removed at USC Following Protests Over Actor’s Racist Remarks

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Ellise Shafer editorUSC announced on Friday that its School of Cinematic Arts will remove an exhibit dedicated to John Wayne after student protests regarding the actor’s racist past.Wayne attended USC on a football scholarship in the 1920s and the exhibit honoring him was created in 2012.

Controversy has been brewing for years over his 1971 interview with Playboy Magazine in which he stated he believed in white supremacy and made derogatory comments about Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ people.

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