'Removal of [Duncan-Brewster's] image from the 'Dune' poster in China creates impression that American company now censoring very appearance of a Black woman to satisfy its own racist misconceptions about audiences in China,' writes CAIR.

Film studio Warner Bros. is accused of appeasing Chinese censors after a black actress was allegedly removed from a movie poster for the sci-fi epic Dune.

Advertisements for the film plastered throughout the communist nation reportedly omit black British actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster, who plays Dr. Liet Kynes in the latest film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 classic.

So far, only British news outlets are reporting on the phenomenon: