W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Hudson Bell didn’t think it would be a big deal to either of their families when they began dating two decades ago. Both Bell, who’s Black, and Hudson Bell, who’s white, had ...

W. Kamau Bell reflects on his own experience with coffee shop racism in 2015. After watching the arrest of two black men in a Starbucks in Philadelphia, he writes that not much has changed.

W. Kamau Bell has spent much of his career managing to squeeze some funny out of holding tough conversations around race, identity and citizenship. But these days, he's working overtime.

Comedian and social activist W. Kamau Bell managed to shoot seven more episodes of his Emmy-winning CNN series “United Shades of America” during a pandemic, doing nearly all his interviews ...

W. Kamau Bell is embracing the word "negro." It's a term that connects him to civil rights icons of the past. "Some people may be offended by it, but to me it just feels very like classically, ...

Day 2 of the 2025 Tribeca Festival featured stars from around the world, all eager to celebrate film and entertainment. The Beacon Theatre welcomed Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro to celebrate the ...

W. Kamau Bell, a comedian and television presenter with roots in Mobile, releases his book "The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell" on May 2, 2017. (John Nowak/CNN) Two days after confronting race ...

W. Kamau Bell isn’t exactly an investigative journalist and he isn’t exactly a dirt-digging muckraker, and the case of Bill Cosby doesn’t really require such a specialist.

When W. Kamau Bell got started, he just wanted to make people laugh. At 21, he began with a goal of being a stand-up comedian. Then everything changed. “We had a Black president, then we had an ...

Editor’s Note: W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian and author who hosts and executive produces the CNN Original Series “United Shades of America,” airing Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The ...

W. Kamau Bell has a reputation for doing things some people say he shouldn’t do. First, it was talking to the Ku Klux Klan. Next, it was interviewing white nationalist Richard Spencer.

You may recognize W. Kamau Bell’s trademark thick glasses from your television screen. Beginning in 2016, he hosted seven seasons of the civics road show “United Shades of America” on CNN.