On a recent episode of the “Generation Barney” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly), he remembered a time when the Ku Klux Klan banned their children from watching “Barney” because Joyner is ...

Barney actor David Joyner laughed when he found out the Ku Klux Klan banned Barney because he's a Black actor.

On a recent episode of the "Generation Barney" podcast (via Entertainment Weekly), he remembered a time when the Ku Klux Klan banned their children from watching "Barney" because Joyner is Black.

David Joyner might not be the most recognizable name to television fans, but his work as the actor inside the suit of Barney certainly is. Joyner played the benevolent purple dinosaur on “Barney ...