Ebony magazine is tackling Bill Cosby’s sexual assault allegations, and their affect on The Cosby Show, on their new cover.
Ebony’s November 2015 cover features a shattered glass photo of the cast of The Cosby Show. The stories headline reads, “Cliff-Hanger: Can The Cosby Show Survive? Should It?”
“This is our annual Family Issue and we decided, after much deliberation, to go with a focus on what we felt was an urgent and provocative conversation happening within the Black community," Ebony said in a statement to E! News. "It wasn't just about making a statement; the cover is also asking questions."
Bill Cosby, who produced and starred in The Cosby Show, has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting around 40 women spanning over multiple decades.
TVLand stopped airing reruns of the hit sitcom a month after the scandal erupted, despite Cosby denying the accusations.
"Can we separate the man with 50 or more allegations of sexual assault and related crimes against him from the fictional, heroic father?" Ebony’s statement asks.
Cosby Show stars Raven Symone and Malcolm-Jamal Warner spoke about the cover on ABC’s The View.
"Let's not forget that The Cosby Show was a sitcom and not a reality show. Let's just remember that this was a sitcom and we had writers and things of that nature,” Symone said.
"That's the show that we've all very proud to have been on," Warner said. “The generation of people of color who have chosen to go to college because they watched that show...you can't take that away.”