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Season 1 • Episode 10: Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson • Watch with subtitles
Episode 10: Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
November 19, 2021 • 70 min
In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.
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