A&E cancels ‘Generation KKK’ after discovering participants were paid
A&E has canceled its KKK documentary series after it was discovered that show participants received payment.
On Friday, the network stated that it would change the name from “Generation KKK” to “Escaping the KKK,” and partnered with the ADL and racial justice organization Color of Change to create town hall meetings after initial controversy.
By Saturday, A&E announced it would not air the program because it “learned last night from the third-party producers … that cash payments — which we currently understand to be nominal — were made in the field to some participants in order to facilitate access … these payments are a direct violation of A&E’s policies and practices.”
The show was to be a documentary on so-called “anti-hate extractors.”
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