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Topic: Dick Gregory

John Stewart, Samantha Bee, Amber Ruffin, Desus & Mero, Ziwe, Trevor Noah and John Oliver. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Heidi Gutman/Peacock/Apple TV+/Shayan Asgharnia/SHOWTIME/Greg Endries/HBO)

How to fix late-night political comedy

Shaan Merchant
Dick Gregory in "The One and Only Dick Gregory" (John Bellamy/Courtesy of SHOWTIME)

The legend who left comedy for activism

Gary M. Kramer
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
Roger Ailes (Getty/Wesley Mann)

Roger Ailes makes Emmys' "In Memoriam"

Gabriel Bell
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Dick Gregory (Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

Lessons from Dick Gregory

D. Watkins
Political activist Dick Gregory talk with the press in Springfield , May 24, 1982. Gregory entered his third day of a five-day total fast with no food or water. He joined seven women who are fasting on water only in protest of Illinois' failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. The women entered their seventh day of fasting, vowing to keep it up until the passage of E.R.A by the Illinois legislature. (AP Photo) (AP Photo)

Gregory, 84, died Saturday

Taylor Link
(AP/Matt Sayles)

"We've never been liberated"

Arthur Chu
(AP/Jeff Roberson)

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