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The murder of George Floyd, an African American, by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020, sparked large-scale protests against systemic racism, both in the United States and elsewhere. As a result of the protests, numerous controversial forms of symbolism were either changed or removed.

In the United States, changes focused on removing and prohibiting displays of the Confederate battle flag; the flag of Mississippi was changed to remove a Confederate battle insignia.^[1] Around the world, numerous name changes occurred in response to the protests, while in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand several police reforms were enacted, primarily in relation to the policing of ethnic minority communities.^[2][3]

Several sports teams which used mascots featuring Native Americans, both inside and outside the United States, announced plans to change them; the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations voted to shorten its name to the 'State of Rhode Island'. In the film and television industry, numerous casting changes occurred in relation to white voice actors for non-white characters, while several films and television shows were edited, rewritten, cancelled, or pulled from streaming services as a result of the protests.

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  Change pending

  Change made, then partially or fully reversed

Employer		Reported	Details	Ref.
	United States Army		To "improve diversity, equity, and inclusion", the Army announced that it would remove "photos from officer promotion boards beginning August 2020".	[4] [5] [6]

Old	New	Represents	Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	[7]	The Flag of Mississippi	Jun 30, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	The Mississippi Legislature passed a bill to relinquish the state flag, remove it from public premises within 15 days of the bill's effective date, and redesign it via commission, with the new design omitting the Confederate battle flag and including the phrase "In God We Trust". Republican Governor Tate Reeves had stated that he was against the Legislature changing the flag, but that if the Legislature were to pass such a bill he would sign it. Reeves signed the bill on June 30, 2020. Mississippi was the last U.S. state to incorporate the Confederate battle flag in its state flag; a poll had concluded that most Mississippians supported the removal of this element from the state flag. Voters approved a new design in a referendum on November 3, 2020. It became the official state flag on January 11, 2021.	[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [7]

Organization		Announced	Details	Ref.
	United States Marine Corps	Jun 5, 2020	The U.S. Marines officially banned the Confederate battle flag from both public and work spaces on its military bases, including its display on vehicle bumper stickers, clothing, and coffee mugs.	[15] [16]
	United States Navy	Jun 9, 2020	Admiral Michael M. Gilday directed his staff to begin crafting an order banning the Confederate battle flag from "all public spaces and work areas aboard Navy installations, ships, aircraft and submarines."	[17] [18]
	NASCAR	Jun 10, 2020	Display of the Confederate battle flag was prohibited at all NASCAR events and properties.	[19]
	Cork GAA	Jun 12, 2020	Fans of the Gaelic Athletic Associated Cork team use the Confederate battle flag due to County Cork's nickname, "the Rebel county". The team announced the prohibition of the flag.	[20]
	United States Forces Korea	Jun 15, 2020	U.S. Forces Korea banned display of the Confederate battle flag and depictions of it on USFK installations, except for artistic and educational displays.	[21]
	U.S. military installations	Jul 17, 2020	U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper effectively banned display of Confederate flags on military installations with a memo listing flags authorized for display that leaves out Confederate flags.	[22]
	United States Coast Guard	Jul 18, 2020	Confederate flag specifically prohibited by Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz.	[23]

Flag	Location	City	State	Announced	Removed	Details	Ref.
Confederate battle flag	Confederate Memorial Park	Seffner	Florida	Jun 1, 2020	Jun 1, 2020	A 60-by-30-foot (18.3 m × 9.1 m) Confederate flag at the intersection of I-4 and I-75, just east of Tampa, was temporarily removed by its owner, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, after threats to burn it were made on social media.	[24]
Confederate battle flag	Memorial Park	Kennesaw	Georgia	Jun 15, 2020	Jun 16, 2020	The city decided that it will no longer fly the Confederate battle flag in downtown Kennesaw's Memorial Park on Main Street. Flag was cut down prior to protests and city council members agreed not to replace it, despite violating state law to do so. On June 16, it was replaced with an older version of the Georgia state flag.	[25] [26]
Mississippi state flag	City-owned buildings	Gulfport	Mississippi	Jun 16, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	City is removing all Mississippi state flags from city-owned buildings.	[27]
Mississippi state flag	City-wide	Bay St. Louis	Mississippi	Jun 16, 2020	Jun 30, 2020	City council decided to stop flying the state flag.	[28]
Flag of the Black Country	West Midlands Fire Service fire stations	West Midlands	England	Jul 16, 2020	—	The Black Country's flag was designed by Gracie Shepherd, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, in 2012. It includes a chain motif representing "the chain industry in the region, as well as the linking up of the different communities". The flag has been controversial as chains made in the region were used on slaves in the Caribbean and North America. The fire service sent a letter to all staff on July 16 banning use of the flag; it reversed its decision on July 24.	[29] [30] [31] [32]
Confederate battle flag	Grand Ledge Public Schools	Grand Ledge	Michigan	Jul 20, 2020	Jul 20, 2020	School Board prohibited "racially divisive messaging, images, or symbols", specifically mentioning the Confederate flag.	[33]
Flag of Norway Flag of the United States	The Nordic Pineapple (bed and breakfast)	St. Johns	Michigan	Jul 20, 2020	Jul 20, 2020	Since opening the business in 2018, the owners had flown a Norwegian flag alongside an American flag at the entrance because the grandfather of one of the owners was born in Norway. The Norwegian flag has the same colors as the Confederate battle flag, and was occasionally mistaken for it, despite its different design, which lacks stars. In the past, they had explained the nature of the flag to anyone who expressed concerns. But after receiving "at least a dozen hateful emails" in the summer of 2020, they decided to stop displaying any flags.[34] They soon restored the American flag and later replaced the Norwegian flag with a triangular Norwegian vimpel pennant in the flag's colors.[35]	[36] [37] [38]
Confederate battle flag	Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries		Oregon	Oct 23, 2020		The Oregon Historic Preservation Office commission on historic cemeteries officially adopted a position paper recommending that Confederate Flags not be displayed at historic cemeteries.	[39]

Emblem		Reported	Details	Ref.
	Coat of arms of Imperial College London	Jun 5, 2020	Imperial College London decided to remove its motto from the official rendition of its coat of arms in order to "better reflect the College's culture, values and commitment to support a diverse and inclusive community." The motto read Scientia imperii decus et tutamen, which translates to "Scientific knowledge, the crowning glory and the safeguard of the empire".	[40]
	Insignia of the Order of St Michael and St George (Personal use by the Governor-General of Jamaica)	Jun 26, 2020	Patrick Allen, the Governor-General of Jamaica, declared that he was suspending his usage of the insignia due to ongoing protests against images that "normalize the continued degradation of people of color." The insignia depicts a white Archangel Michael standing over a dark-skinned Satan.	[41] [42]
	Ventura County, California, seal	Jun 22, 2020	Seal was redesigned to remove Junípero Serra.	[43]
	Placerville, California, seal	Jul 14, 2020	The city has had the nickname "Hangtown" since the 1850s. The city first considered removing a noose from its city seal because of its associations with lynching. The city council voted unanimously to remove the image on April 14, 2021.	[44][45]

Notable proposed changes:

• The coat of arms of Massachusetts, displayed in the Seal of Massachusetts and Flag of Massachusetts contains a colonist's sword held over the image of a Native American, both of which were criticized by activists.^[46]

Name		Location			Reported	Details	Ref.
	Penn Museum	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States	Jul 8, 2020	The museum removed the Morton Cranial Collection from public view; the collection includes the skulls of enslaved individuals. Samuel George Morton, a popular physician, was a founder of scientific racism, and used his collection to "prove" the alleged inferiority of what he called "the African race".	[47]
	John Wayne exhibit, University of Southern California	Los Angeles	California	United States	Jul 10, 2020	John Wayne attended the University of Southern California; white supremacist remarks of his have recently surfaced. The display will be moved to the Cinematic Arts Library.	[48]
	Tate Britain	London	England	United Kingdom	Aug 4, 2020	Tate Britain's Rex Whistler Restaurant featured a large mural by Rex Whistler entitled The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (1927). One of its scenes depicts the enslavement of a black child and his mother's distress; another shows him running behind a horse and cart to which he is attached by a chain around his neck. The room was closed and will only reopen (as an exhibition space) when "interpretive material" to put the work's offensive nature into its wider historical context is incorporated.[49][50]

Product		Country	Reported	Executed	Details	Ref.
	Límpido (bleach)	Colombia	Jun 19, 2020	—	The parent company Clorox stated that the brand would no longer use the image of "Blanquita", a character derived from the "mammy" racial stereotype.	[51]
	Good Humor (ice cream)	United States	Aug 13, 2020		The ice cream company hired RZA from the Wu-Tang clan to create a jingle to replace the familiar "Turkey in the Straw" melody heard in its ice cream trucks because of the early 19th-century folk song's associations with minstrel shows, blackface and racist lyrics.	[52] [53]
	Hallmark	United States	Aug 27, 2020	Aug 27, 2020	In wake of the retheming of Splash Mountain, Hallmark pulled a Mickey Mouse ornament that played "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from its 2020 ornament line-up.	[54]
	Fred Perry (clothing)	United Kingdom	Sep 24, 2020	Sep 24, 2020	The clothing company announced they are retiring the Black/Yellow/Yellow twin tipped shirt that was "appropriated" by the Proud Boys.	[55] [56] [57]

Game		Reported	Details	Ref.
	Magic: The Gathering	Jun 10, 2020	Wizards of the Coast announced that it was pulling seven cards, including "Invoke Prejudice",[a] "Cleanse",[b] "Jihad", and "Pradesh Gypsies", after being accused of "pervasive ongoing racism" not only in its card design but also in its employment practices. The announcement did not address the employment issues.	[60] [61] [62] [58] [63] [59]
	Dungeons & Dragons	Jun 17, 2020	Wizards of the Coast admitted that "some of the peoples in the games—orcs and drow being two of the prime examples—have been characterized as monstrous and evil", and committed to making changes, such as depicting "orcs and drow [as] just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples" in their books and "proactively seeking new, diverse talent to join [their] staff".	[64] [65] [66]
	Fortnite	Jun 17, 2020	Players noted the removal of police cars from the game as early as June 17, 2020. Developer Epic Games declined to comment, though an unnamed person "familiar with the game's development" stated, "I wouldn't say it's a political statement. I think it's just us being sensitive about the issues many people in our audience are dealing with." Cars were not functional within the game, so the removal of police cars was merely a cosmetic change.	[67] [68] [69]
	Forza	Jun 26, 2020	Turn 10 Studios updated their enforcement guidelines in Forza games to include the Confederate flag under "Notorious iconography" and administer a ban for any further use under any circumstances. The games are known for their livery editors where players could create thousands of layers of graphics to draw shapes, letters, and pictures. A prominent use of the flag in-game was to create virtual replicas of the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.	[70] [71]
	Scrabble	Jul 7, 2020	Hasbro and the North American Scrabble Players Association agreed to remove 225 words from official Scrabble competition. Hasbro said it will "make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game."	[72] [73] [74]

Old		New		Role	Reported	Replaced	Details	Ref.
	Alexis Ohanian		Michael Seibel	Board member of Reddit			Co-founder Ohanian announced that he was leaving the board, stating that he did so "as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'", and asking the board to "fill [his] seat with a black candidate".	[94] [95] [96]

Series		Canceled	Details	Ref.
	Cops	Jun 9, 2020	In June 2020, Paramount Network pulled the program from its schedule in response to national protests against Floyd's murder and announced its cancellation days later. The program remains in production for its international and overseas partners, and began to film anew in Spokane County, Washington with its sheriff's department at the start of October 2020. In September 2021, it was announced that Fox Nation picked up the show. The 33rd season premiered on October 1, 2021.	[97][98][99][100][101]
	Live PD Live PD: Police Nation Live PD Presents: PD Cam	Jun 10, 2020	Live PD aired its last episode on May 23, 2020. The show had removed video footage of the killing of Javier Ambler, which took place in March 2019. Other shows in the Live PD franchise were also cancelled. Because A&E sometimes relied on shows from the Live PD franchise for over 85% of its programming, the network's viewership has plummeted to about half of what it was compared to the previous year.	[100] [102]

Old		New		Series	Role(s)	Reported	Details	Ref.
	Jenny Slate		Ayo Edebiri	Big Mouth	Missy	Jun 24, 2020	Slate, a white and Jewish actress, announced that she would no longer play the half-black character Missy.	[103] [104]
	Kristen Bell		Emmy Raver-Lampman	Central Park	Molly Tillerman	Jun 24, 2020[c]	The show producers announced that a biracial or black actress would play the biracial Molly in the future. Bell wrote, "This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity ... Casting a mixed race character w[ith] a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race & Black American experience."	[105] [106] [107]
	David Herman Katie Crown Melissa Bardin Galsky Pamela Adlon		TBA Ashley Nicole Black Nicole Byer	Bob's Burgers	Marshmallow Harley Ms. Jacobson Olsen Benner	Jun 24, 2020	Series creator Loren Bouchard announced on Twitter that David Herman will no longer play the black transgender sex worker Marshmallow in the future after replying to a tweet about recasting Marshmallow with "Yes. On it." Bouchard also announced on Twitter that Katie Crown will no longer play the black student Harley in the future as well. Crown and Melissa Bardin Galsky had their respective roles of Harley and Ms. Jacobson recast to Ashley Nicole Black. Starting in The Bob's Burgers Movie, Pamela Adlon's role of Olsen Benner was recast to Nicole Byer.	[108] [109] [110]
	Mike Henry		Arif Zahir	Family Guy	Cleveland Brown	Jun 26, 2020	Mike Henry stated "I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role." Arif Zahir began his role of Cleveland in season 20.	[111] [112]
	White voice actors for non-white characters		Alex Désert (Carl Carlson, Lou) Eric Lopez (Bumblebee Man) Jenny Yokobori (Kumiko Albertson) Mario Jose (singing voice)/Tony Rodriguez (speaking voice) (Julio) Kevin Michael Richardson (Dr. Hibbert) Dawnn Lewis (Bernice Hibbert) Kimberly Brooks (Lewis Clark) Jay Pharaoh (Drederick Tatum)	The Simpsons	All non-white roles	Jun 26, 2020	Show producers stated that white actors would no longer voice non-white characters. These included recurring characters voiced by Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, and Tress MacNeille. It did not clarify whether the characters would continue to appear in the series going forward.	[113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120]
	Addison Holley		Markeda McKay	Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood	Miss Elaina	Dec 4, 2020	Episodes from the fifth season onward replace Miss Elaina's voice actress Addison Holley with Markeda McKay.	[121]
	Deann Degruijter		Kim Roberts	PAW Patrol	Mayor Goodway	Sep 10, 2020	Episodes from the seventh season onward replace Mayor Goodway's voice actress Deann Degruijter with Kim Roberts.	[122][123]
	Rebecca Sugar		Erica Luttrell	Adventure Time: Distant Lands	Elise	Nov 20, 2020	While Sugar voiced Elise in "Everything Stays" from the original series, she was replaced by Luttrell in "Obsidian" from Distant Lands.	[124]
	Ben Diskin		Zeno Robinson	Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir	Nino Lahiffe Max Kante		Zeno Robinson replaced Ben Diskin as the voice of Nino Lahiffe starting in the film Miraculous World: New York: United HeroeZ and Max Kante starting in Season 4.	[125][126]
	Nika Futterman Carlos Alazraqui		Diego Olmedo/Connor Andrade Sean Crisden	The Loud House The Casagrandes	Alexis Flores Marcus		After Futterman stepped down from the role, Olmedo became the new voice of Alexis Flores starting in the episode "Karate Chops" until "Born to Be Mild" where the role was recast to Connor Andrade. The same thing later happened with the animal control officer Marcus in "Just Be Coo" where the character was originally voiced by Alazraqui in his first unnamed appearance in "Walk Don't Run".	[127][128]
	Heather Bambrick		Sabryn Rock	Wild Kratts	Koki	Aug 15, 2021	Episodes from the seventh season onward replace Koki's voice actress Heather Bambrick with Sabryn Rock.	[129][130][131]
	John Alderton (seasons 1–4) John Sparkes (season 5) David Carling (seasons 6–12) Sarah Hadland/Joanna Ruiz (season 5) Su Douglas (seasons 6–12)		Colin McFarlane Ayesha Antoine	Fireman Sam	Trevor Evans Mandy and Helen Flood
	Tyrone Savage		Kwaku Adu-Poku	Total DramaRama	Lightning
	Kazumi Evans		Cherlandra Estrada	Polly Pocket	Shani Smith		Cherlandra Estrada replaced Kazumi Evans beginning with the third season.
	Tara Strong		Bresha Webb Aiden Dodson	The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder	BeBe and CeCe Proud	Jan 14, 2022	While Strong provided the infant vocal effects of BeBe and CeCe Proud in the original series, their roles were recast to Webb and Dodson in the sequel series.	[132]
	Alyson Court		TBA	X-Men '97	Jubilee	Nov 12, 2021	While having voiced her in X-Men, Court will not be reprising Jubilee despite being among the original cast returning for the sequel. She insisted that an Asian-American actress would voice Jubilee instead.	[133]

Series/film		Episode(s)	Reported	Details	Ref.
	Little Britain Come Fly with Me	all	Jun 8, 2020	Netflix pulled Little Britain and the BBC and BritBox followed three days later. The show has "long been criticised for its portrayal of black and Asian characters by the white comedians, as well as gay characters and those with disabilities".[d] Netflix also pulled another show that contained blackface, Come Fly with Me, by the same creators. On 16 March 2022, the BBC made Little Britain available to view on BBC iPlayer again with some characters being cut from the original release.	[135] [134] [136]
	Gone with the Wind	—	Jun 9, 2020	HBO Max pulled the film because it "depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society"; the service "felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible". The film was eventually reinstated with an introduction by cinema professor Jacqueline Stewart explaining its depiction of a "world of grace and beauty, without acknowledging the brutalities of the system of chattel slavery upon which this world is based". The original content of the film is available on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray.	[137] [138] [139]
	Bo' Selecta!	all	Jun 10, 2020	All 4 pulled the show after comedian Leigh Francis tearfully apologized for having "portrayed many black celebrities" on the show using latex facemasks.	[140] [141] [142]
	Bubble Guppies	S03E02: "The Police Cop-Etition!"	Jun 10, 2020	The Nick Jr. and Noggin apps pulled the episode because of it being themed around police. A rerun was slated to air on the Nick Jr. channel on June 12, 2020, but was replaced with "Come To Your Senses!" the day before it was scheduled to air.	[143]
	The League of Gentlemen The Mighty Boosh	all	Jun 10, 2020	Netflix pulled the shows because they contained characters "played by white actors wearing blackface": Papa Lazarou in The League of Gentlemen and The Spirit of Jazz in The Mighty Boosh.	[144] [145]
	We Can Be Heroes Summer Heights High Angry Boys Jonah from Tonga	all	Jun 10, 2020	Netflix pulled four Chris Lilley shows for using blackface, brownface, and yellowface. In what was characterized as a "defiant move", Lilley shared a deleted scene from Jonah from Tonga online.	[146] [147]
	Fawlty Towers	S01E06: "The Germans"	Jun 11, 2020	After UKTV pulled the episode because it "contains racial slurs", show creator John Cleese called the people running the BBC "a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats" who were "cowardly and gutless". Cleese explained that the character using the slurs "was an old fossil left over from decades before" and said, "We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them". UKTV later stated they would reinstate the episode along with guidance noting that it contained "potentially offensive content and language".	[148] [149] [150] [151] [152]
	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	S04E03:  "America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest" S06E09:  "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth" S08E02:  "The Gang Recycles Their Trash" S09E09:  "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6" S14E03:  "Dee Day"	Jun 11, 2020[e]	Netflix, Hulu and Disney + Star(despite Disney + not streaming the series on its star hub previously but the mentioned episodes are not streaming on Disney + in Australia and New Zealand and Canada) pulled five episodes that contained brownface or blackface. All five episodes mentioned are available on DVD.	[153] [154] [155]
	Sam & Cat	S01E27: "#BlueDogSoda"	Jun 10, 2020	On Netflix, Nickelodeon's streaming services, and later reruns of the episode on television, Sam's line, "Step away? I'll step on your neck" was cut. The uncut episode is available on DVD.
	Tyler Perry's Young Dylan	S01E05: "The Enforcer"	Jun 11, 2020	The episode was pulled from reruns and Nickelodeon's app as it dealt with the titular character starting a protest over school uniforms.	[156]
	Minoriteam	all	Jun 12, 2020	Cartoon Network and Adult Swim pulled the series from their streaming services, due to the show's depiction of racial stereotypes.	[157] [158]
	Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace	all	Jun 12, 2020	Cartoon Network and Adult Swim pulled the series from their streaming services, due to unsubstantiated allegations from anonymous sources of "coded racial messages, including swastikas" being found in the original cut of the show, which were removed ahead of broadcast.	[159] [160]
	W/ Bob & David	S01E03: "Episode 3"	Jun 16, 2020	Netflix pulled the episode that included a sketch called "Know Your Rights", which featured blackface "in an attempt to satirize police brutality". Prior to removal, David Cross, who portrayed the character who wore blackface, stated, "The point of this was to underscore the absurdity...well, here's your last chance to figure it out".	[161] [162]
	PAW Patrol	S05E11: "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save The Royal Kitties" S06E02: "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Stop A Meltdown; Ultimate Rescue: Pups and the Mystery of the Missing Cellphones"	Jun 20, 2020	These two Ultimate Rescue episodes were pulled from Nickelodeon's line-up as they depicted the other pups becoming police officers like Chase. Both episodes mentioned are available on DVD.	[163]
	30 Rock	S03E02: "Believe in the Stars" S05E04: "Live Show"[f] S05E10: "Christmas Attack Zone" S06E19: "Live from Studio 6H"	Jun 22, 2020	Tina Fey and NBCUniversal requested the pulling of four episodes that used blackface.[g] All four episodes mentioned are available on DVD.	[165] [164]
	Scrubs	S03E07: "My Fifteen Seconds"[h] S03E08: "My Friend the Doctor" S05E04: "My Jiggly Ball" S05E17: "My Chopped Liver"	Jun 24, 2020	Hulu pulled the episodes, which contained instances of blackface, at the request of show creator Bill Lawrence and ABC Studios. "My Chopped Liver" also contained an instance of whiteface. All three episodes mentioned are available on DVD.	[167] [166]
	The Office	S09E09:  "Dwight Christmas" (one scene therein)	Jun 26, 2020	Show creator Greg Daniels edited out a scene which contained blackface. The episode that has this scene intact is available on DVD.	[168] [169]
	Community	S02E14: "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"	Jun 26, 2020	Netflix and Hulu announced the pulling of the episode, which included a scene that contained blackface. Producer Sony Pictures Television supported the decision. The episode mentioned is available on DVD.	[170]
	The Golden Girls	S03E23: "Mixed Blessings"	Jun 27, 2020	Hulu pulled the episode, which included a scene that contained blackface. The episode mentioned is available on DVD.	[171]
	Peep Show	S02E01:  "Dance Class" (one scene therein)	Jun 29, 2020	Netflix removed a scene containing blackface.	[172] [173]
	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	S06E02: "Shake Like Me"	Sep 29, 2020	Cartoon Network and Adult Swim pulled the episode from their rerun rotation and streaming services, whose plot was described as an "animated equivalent of blackface". The episode is still available on DVD on Aqua Teen Volume 6 and Google Play.	[174]
	The Boondocks	S03E04: "The Story of Jimmy Rebel"	Sep 29, 2020	Cartoon Network and Adult Swim intentionally excluded the episode from their streaming services due to perceived racial insensitivities over the episode's portrayal of a racist country singer named Jimmy Rebel (a parody of real-life white supremacist country singer Johnny Rebel). The episode is still available on DVD.	[175]

Series		Announced	Details	Ref.
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jun 2, 2020	Writer Craig Gore was fired after posting a photo of himself armed with a rifle and threatening to "light motherfuckers up who are trying to fuck w/ my property" during the protests. Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of the Law & Order franchise, stated, "I will not tolerate this conduct, especially during our hour of national grief. I am terminating Craig Gore immediately." Gore's talent agency, Paradigm, also dropped him as a client.	[176] [177] [178]
	L.A.'s Finest	Jun 8, 2020	Spectrum postponed the show's second-season premiere to an unspecified date later in 2020.	[179]
	Body Cam	Jun 9, 2020	A spokesperson for Investigation Discovery stated that the show was "off the schedule for the foreseeable future". The show returned to the schedule the following year.	[180] [181]
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Jun 23, 2020	Season 8 of the series will be reworked in light of George Floyd's murder; the four episodes already made were scrapped.	[182]
	The Amazing Race Big Brother Love Island Survivor Tough as Nails	Nov 9, 2020	CBS announced that in upcoming seasons of their unscripted reality series, 50% of the cast will consist of people of color.	[183] [184]

Item changed		Location	Reported	Details	Ref.
	Reference to the Robert E. Lee Tree	Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park's website		The name of the Robert E. Lee tree was removed from a website listing the world's largest sequoias in order to "promote inclusiveness." The name of the tree cannot be changed without the approval of either Congress or the leadership of the National Park Service.	[185]
	Skin tone preferences	Shaadi.com	Jun 11, 2020	The decision was made due to a petition shared online on the basis of eliminating colorism.	[186]
	Ethnic and social justice studies requirement	California State University system	Jul 23, 2020	The Cal State Board of Trustees approved making a one-course graduation requirement in ethnic and social justice studies. The first change in Cal State's general education curriculum in over 40 years, it will be required from the 2023–2024 academic year.	[187]
	Frölunda HC logo and nickname	Gothenburg, Sweden	Sep 17, 2020	The Swedish Hockey League ice hockey team announced that they would stop using the Frölunda Indians moniker as well as its logo depicting a Native American. Due to financial and practical reasons, however, the team will continue to use their current jerseys for the 2020–21 SHL season, and plan to have a new logo in time for the 2021–22 SHL season.	[188]
	Mutual of Omaha logo	Omaha, Nebraska	Nov 12, 2020	The insurance and finance company retired its 70-year-old Indian chief head logo, replacing it with an African lion, partly as a nod to its long-time sponsorship of the television program Wild Kingdom.	[189]
ΔΤΔ	Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Lambda chapter	Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN	Jul 15, 2020	Members of the fraternity disbanded their chapter and called for disbanding the "Interfraternity Council and Pan-Hellenic System" because "[h]istorically white Greek Life is an institution that has wielded an enormous amount of social, academic and financial capital in a way that has done immense personal and structural harm to our fellow classmates." The move comes amid "[n]ationwide social justice movements that have taken place over the past few months."[190][191]

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