Watching the BAFTAs While Black | Race & Representation on Film Awards
Danielle Robinson Bell, associate professor at Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications
By Cianna Greaves Feb 25, 2026, 5:29pm CST
Nobody wants to turn on the TV and be verbally assaulted. But that was the reality for many Black people who tuned in to watch the British Film Awards last Sunday. During Britain’s version of the Oscars, the N-word was shouted at actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo by John Davidson, a Tourette syndrome advocate and subject of the movie I Swear.
The incident and subsequent fallout and fumbled apologies is just the latest of several recent incidents of racial animus aimed toward Black and Brown people.
On today’s In the Loop, a frank and necessary discussion on the rise of race-based hate, and its toll on the mind and bodies of Black people.
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