In A Season Highlighting Diversity, 'The Bachelor' Lands In Controversy Around Race
Brandy Monk-Payton, a media and Black cultural studies scholar at Fordham University, talks with All Things Considered host Michel Martin about the ABC franchise and its record on race.
Controversy has once again come to The Bachelor.
For almost 20 years, the franchise's producers have churned out love stories at a nearly break-neck pace on the show and its spinoffs, The Bachelorette and . The franchise's record on diversity, however, has been notably slow. In 2012, two Black men who had auditioned for the show against it for racial discrimination. It took 15 years for the franchise to announce a Black lead, Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay in 2017.
