Earlier this year, before the new cast was announced and the SNL departures began, a rumor circulated that Saturday Night Live was looking to cast more women of color. It ran alongside ones that ...

Please, “SNL,” don’t forget about Black women… again. On Friday, Ego Nwodim announced she would be leaving “Saturday Night Live” after seven seasons, and with her exit comes a familiar, unsettling ...

Sherri Shepherd has a message for “Saturday Night Live”: hire another Black woman and do it fast. On Monday’s episode of her daytime talk show, the comedian and actress reflected on the absence she ...

“I felt honored to represent for us,” she said. Of why season 51 was her time to leave the show, Nwodim explained that “it felt like the time to make space for something else for me.” By McKinley ...

Sherri Shepherd has a personal reason for wanting a Black female cast member on Saturday Night Live: “When I co-hosted The View, there was no Black woman on the show to play me.” Back in Shepherd’s ...

Ego Nwodim is spilling the details behind her shocking Saturday Night Live exit. The comedian, who caused a stir in September by announcing her departure from SNL just one month before the show's 51st ...

During the Monday episode of her namesake talk show, host Sherri Shepherd called on Saturday Night Live to “not disappoint” viewers and hire a Black woman in the wake of repertory player Ego Nwodim‘s ...

Please, "SNL," don't forget about Black women… again. On Friday, Ego Nwodim announced she would be leaving "Saturday Night Live" after seven seasons, and with her exit comes a familiar, unsettling ...

With Ego Nwodim gone, Sherri Shepherd says SNL has no excuse not to bring new Black female comics on the show. Sherri Shepherd has a message for “Saturday Night Live”: hire another Black woman and do ...