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USC Removing John Wayne Exhibit After Student Protests Over Actor's Racist Comments
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hollywoodreporter.comUSC’s School of Cinematic Arts will remove its John Wayne exhibit after months of students and alumni protesting keeping such a tribute to the actorendorsed white supremacy.
Protests over the exhibit followed resurfaced racist comments by the actor in a 1971Playboy magazine interview. The removal of the exhibit, dedicated to the actor who attended the university and played football in the 1920s, was announced Friday by Evan Hughes, the assistant dean of diversity and inclusion. "Conversations about systemic racism in our cultural institutions along with the recent global, civil uprising by the Black Lives Matter Movement require that we consider the role our School can play as a change maker in promoting antiracist cultural values and.
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