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Actress Jasika Nicole Pledges To No Longer Star In Shows About Law Enforcement

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Actress Jasika Nicole Pledges To No Longer Star In Shows About Law Enforcement
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Actress Jasika Nicole (“The Good Doctor,” “Punky Brewster”) has pledged to no longer act in cop shows out of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

In an op-ed for Entertainment Weekly, Nicole described herself as a “cis, queer, light-skinned Black actor” who has been working for the better part of her adulthood “to untie the threads of my own internalized -isms, reworking my understanding of how white supremacy and patriarchal ideals have informed my view of the world.”

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