For 31 years, actor Harry Shearer has provided the voice of Dr.

But that streak came to an end with this past Sunday’s episode, “DiaryQueen.” As promised last summer, the show’s producers have hired a Black actor to replace Shearer and voice the Black character.

He’s also a veteran of The Simpsons, having lent his voice to characters like Anger Watkins, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Chappelle, and many more since 2009, so this is familiar territory for him.

After Hank Azaria stepped away from the role of convenience store owner Apu on The Simpsons last year, the producers decided to change their policy about voice actors playing certain roles.

“Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” they said.

Within the past year, white actor Mike Henry walked away from the role of Black character Cleveland Brown on Family Guy (Arif Zahir ended up being cast in that role), and both Netflix’s Big Mouth and AppleTV+’s Central Park decided to switch up their casting to give people of color the opportunity to voice characters of color on those shows.