Chelsea Handler Visits SC Plantation for Netflix Series ‘Chelsea Does Racism’

Comedian Chelsea Handler speaks onstage during the "Chelsea Does" panel discussion at the Netflix portion of the 2015 Summer TCA Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 28, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. — Comedian Chelsea Handler speaks onstage during the “Chelsea Does” panel discussion at the Netflix portion of the 2015 Summer TCA Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 28, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.

*As tipped in July, Chelsea Handler calls herself exploring “racism” in her four-part Netflix documentary series “Chelsea Does,” which immerses the comedian in four separate worlds that peak her curiosity.

In addition to “Chelsea Does Racism,” the former E! star also offers “Chelsea Does Marriage,” “Chelsea Does Silicon Valley” and “Chelsea Does Drugs.”

“I think they are all really different, and were things that I thought, you know, why not?” Handler told the TCA during a panel for the series in July. “I’m willing to do anything to learn about something. I’m willing to put myself out there, and I feel like we should take advantage of that.”

Chelsea Handler and Rev. Al Sharpton in the Netflix documentary series "Chelsea Does Racism" — Chelsea Handler and Rev. Al Sharpton in the Netflix documentary “Chelsea Does Racism”

Netflix has revealed that Handler’s “Racism” episode includes “a roundtable discussion with experts from the NAACP, a sit-down conversation with Rev. Al Sharpton and a trip to a South Carolina plantation.

The NAACP is joined by members of the Anti-Defamation League and other civil rights organizations for the roundtable, and Handler also travels to Israel where she has an intimate conversation with former president, Shimon Peres.

Here’s what the comic told TV critics about her “racism” episode in July: