Mike Henry, who has voiced the character of Cleveland Brown for two decades on "Family Guy," said on Friday that he is stepping down from the role on the FOX animated series. "It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years," Henry, 54, wrote on Twitter. Earlier on Friday, the network revealed that it will no longer have white actors voice characters of color on "The Simpsons." Henry went on to say that "it wasn’t like I was cast as Cleveland, I created Cleveland." Casting a mixed-race character w/a [sic] white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed-race & Black American experience," she said.

Source: Fox News June 27, 2020 01:16 UTC