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Phylicia Rashad sends letter to Howard University to apologize for defending Bill Cosby By Melissa Roberto article Phylicia Rashad visits SiriusXM Studios on January 13, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Actress Phylicia Rashad offered a "sincere apology" to Howard University students and parents on Friday after facing backlash for defending Bill Cosby's vacated sexual assault conviction and subsequent prison release. "My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence, find no excuse for such behavior, and ...

Source: The Conversation – USA – By George Justice, Professor of English, Arizona State University For acclaimed actor Phylicia Rashad, July 1, 2021 was the official first day on the job as dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University. But some hoped it would also be her last. The day before, Rashad had sent out a controversial Tweet in support of her onetime “TV husband,” Bill Cosby, after a court overturned his sexual assault conviction. “FINALLY!!!!” Rashad wrote in the Tweet. “A terrible wrong is being righted — a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” This prom...

"My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence, find no excuse for such behavior, and I know that Howard University has a zero-tolerance policy toward interpersonal violence," she wrote.   The court ruled Wednesday that an agreement with a previous prosecutor meant Cosby could not be charged in the case. Rashad lauded the court’s decision as “a terrible wrong being righted” in a now-deleted tweet.  “A miscarriage of justice is corrected," Rashad added on Twitter, alongside a photo of Cosby, who has since been rele...

Loop News Phylicia Rashad Howard University has disavowed a sympathetic tweet on comedian Bill Cosby and his abrupt release from prison on Wednesday by his TV wife, Phylicia Rashad, the incoming Dean of the prestigious university’s fine arts college, US media reported. Rashad played Clair Huxtable for all eight seasons on ‘The Cosby Show’ from 1984 to 1992. Howard said in a statement that Rashad’s initial tweet about Cosby “lacked sensitivity towards survivors of sexual assault,” reported CNBC. Rashad’s Twitter post came shortly after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned C...

The seven justices who reversed Bill Cosby’s conviction this week spent months debating whether he had a secret agreement with a prosecutor that tainted his 2018 criminal sexual assault conviction. In the end, Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled that a district attorney had induced Cosby to give incriminating testimony in 2005 for a lawsuit, with the promise that no criminal charges would be filed. Then, a decade later, another prosecutor used it against him — a fundamental violation of his Fifth Amendment rights. ‘America’s Dad’ walked out of prison Wednesday and won’t face any ...