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Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
The New York Times Presents — Season 1
S01E102021-11-1970m

Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson

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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