Howard Students and Alumni Are Furious With Phylicia Rashad's Support of Bill Cosby [View all]
Howard Students and Alumni Are Furious With Phylicia Rashads Support of Bill Cosby
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Howard Universitys newest dean celebrated Bill Cosbys prison release. A number of students and alums, many of whom are survivors of sexual assault, want her gone.
Cheyenne Roundtree, Entertainment Reporter
Updated Jul. 01, 2021 4:26PM ET / Published Jul. 01, 2021 3:13PM ET
Mere hours after Bill Cosbys TV wife Phylicia Rashad celebrated her former co-stars shock release from prison, she attempted to walk back her joyous statement following a tidal wave of backlash.
Cosby, 83, walked out of a Pennsylvania prison on Wednesday, serving just three years of his three to 10-year sentence for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The states supreme court suddenly overturned the disgraced comics 2018 conviction on a legal technicalityit found the prosecutor couldnt go back on his predecessors declaration not to charge him.
Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable alongside Cosby for eight seasons on The Cosby Show, was thrilled. FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righteda miscarriage of justice is corrected, she not only tweeted, but shared on Instagram.
It did not go over well for Rashad, who was tapped in May by Howard University to be its new dean of College of Fine Arts, recently renamed to honor the late actor and former student Chadwick Boseman.
FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected! pic.twitter.com/NrGUdwr23c
Phylicia Rashad (@PhyliciaRashad) June 30, 2021
The 73-year-old was immediately slammed, as people raised the question of how students could feel comfortable reporting instances of sexual assault to a dean who had rejoiced in the release of an alleged serial predator who had 60 women publicly come forward to accuse him of assault?
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