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W. Kamau Bell, from left, winner of the award for outstanding unstructured reality program for "United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell", Melissa Bell, and Janet Cheatham Bell attend the Governors
Emmys / Television Academy - 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Night One - Arrivals Melissa Hudson, left, and W. Kamau Bell arrive at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
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EXCLUSIVE - Melissa Bell, from left, W. Kamau Bell, Barbara Bowman, Stacey Pinkerton, Lise-Lotte Lublin, and Benjamin Lublin during night one of the Television Academy's 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Governors Gala
W. Kamau Bell - Art can be a lifeline through uncertainty and turbulence, for that reason and so many others, artists deserve to get paid. BIPOC artists especially need to get paid!
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Melissa Bell and W. Kamau Bell on the Red Carpet at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmys. | Television Academy
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Los Angeles, CA, USA. 9th Sep, 2017. Melissa Bell, W. Kamau Bell at a public appearance for Primetime Emmy Awards: Creative Arts Awards - SAT, Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, CA September 9,
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W. Kamau Bell, from left, winner of the award for outstanding unstructured reality program for "United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell", Melissa Bell, and Janet Cheatham Bell attend the Governors
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