blackballed

“If I fight Rocky … I’m already not liked … so if I’m fighting him I’m definitely getting blackballed. All the labels like him and work with him,” Ephron said.

She also said he had subsequently "blackballed" her in the modelling world.

Siwa's experience with Nickelodeon led the star to big heights, even though she alleged that they blackballed her.

It happened after a Muhammad Ali fight back in 1970 when he couldn’t get sanctioned to fight anywhere; he’d been blackballed because of his stance against the Vietnam War.

Most importantly, Martell is a Black country musician who is receiving her flowers decades after she was entirely blackballed by Nashville's overwhelmingly white and racist country music gatekeepers.