Troy, Michigan, is quintessential suburbia: strip malls, banks with drive-thrus, and jewelry stores. Though just 30 minutes outside of Detroit, Troy feels a world away from the Motor City, with its blocks of boarded-up houses and abandoned stores. The disparate environments speak to the systemic inequality that brought me here to talk politics and the bind that Joe Biden has gotten himself into.
Inside Fresh & Pressed Juice, a brightly lit juice bar and cafe with a vibrant green ceiling, I talk with the impeccably dressed shop owner Kiara Smith and her husband,...
Inside Fresh & Pressed Juice, a brightly lit juice bar and cafe with a vibrant green ceiling, I talk with the impeccably dressed shop owner Kiara Smith and her husband,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
There comes a moment in many sports documentaries when viewers find themselves wondering whether they’ve drunk the Gatorade. All the fast cuts and swelling music, the bodily injuries and emotional agony, the triumphant moments and podium tears have a way of pushing our buttons.
In director Sarah Dowland’s “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” that objectivity-questioning pause comes when the WNBA legend’s agent appears for an on-camera interview (she happens to be one of its executive producers as well). No arguing that agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas knows a great deal about Bird and even more about the changes in marketing strategies that women athletes have faced over the years. She also knows that optics matter, and it’s hard not to be a little frustrated that such an obviously biased cheerleader should appear as a source. (Another red flag: NBA Entertainment had a role in producing the doc.
In director Sarah Dowland’s “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” that objectivity-questioning pause comes when the WNBA legend’s agent appears for an on-camera interview (she happens to be one of its executive producers as well). No arguing that agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas knows a great deal about Bird and even more about the changes in marketing strategies that women athletes have faced over the years. She also knows that optics matter, and it’s hard not to be a little frustrated that such an obviously biased cheerleader should appear as a source. (Another red flag: NBA Entertainment had a role in producing the doc.
- 2/9/2024
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Killer Mike was detained at the 66th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon, shortly after winning three of the four rap categories in the pre-show telecast about two hours earlier.
An LAPD source tells Rolling Stone that Michael Santiago Render (Killer Mike’s real name) was handcuffed and detained after an alleged “physical altercation” inside the arena involving a third party. “Somebody complains, obviously we have to do something about it,” the source said. Render was questioned and later booked for misdemeanor battery, according to the LAPD.
An LAPD source tells Rolling Stone that Michael Santiago Render (Killer Mike’s real name) was handcuffed and detained after an alleged “physical altercation” inside the arena involving a third party. “Somebody complains, obviously we have to do something about it,” the source said. Render was questioned and later booked for misdemeanor battery, according to the LAPD.
- 2/5/2024
- by Ethan Millman and Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
Black women are consistently underestimated, disregarded, and overlooked in the entertainment industry, but I've been so inspired by Black stars' joy and self-love this awards season. From Quinta Brunson to Niecy Nash, our favorite actresses have already celebrated their well-deserved flowers - and I'll be watching the upcoming Grammys to see if that trend continues.
If you've missed all the bright points of this awards season, let me remind you of what's happened so far. During the Golden Globes on Jan. 7, we saw Ayo Edebiri take home her first major award as this year's best female actor in a television series for her work in "The Bear." Her acceptance speech made its way around social media for her relatable delivery - but mainly for her acknowledgment of her agents' and managers' assistants. Despite this being a momentous occasion in her career, she took the time to humbly thank and uplift...
If you've missed all the bright points of this awards season, let me remind you of what's happened so far. During the Golden Globes on Jan. 7, we saw Ayo Edebiri take home her first major award as this year's best female actor in a television series for her work in "The Bear." Her acceptance speech made its way around social media for her relatable delivery - but mainly for her acknowledgment of her agents' and managers' assistants. Despite this being a momentous occasion in her career, she took the time to humbly thank and uplift...
- 1/30/2024
- by Daria Yazmiene
- Popsugar.com
It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers, supporters, and hip-hop stars including Eric B. (of Eric B. and Rakim fame), rapper and reality TV star Peter Gunz, and “The Blastmaster” Krs-One. The occasion is the announcement of a series of concerts to celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary across New York’s five boroughs. Aiming to look the part of “Hip-Hop Mayor,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Timmhotep Aku and Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
It was a big night for diversity at the 2023 Emmys with five of the 12 acting Emmys being awarded to performers of color, tying the record set at the 1991 ceremony.
The first two awards of the night made history with wins for The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Abbot Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys have both gone to Black women in the same year. The same was previously accomplished in the drama categories with Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba in...
The first two awards of the night made history with wins for The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Abbot Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys have both gone to Black women in the same year. The same was previously accomplished in the drama categories with Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba in...
- 1/16/2024
- by Carita Rizzo
- Rollingstone.com
Tears were flowing Monday night during the 75th Emmys ceremony as several winners, including Niecy Nash-Betts, gave their acceptance speeches.
Some thanked their children, others their wives and at one least one winner boldly — and fabulously — thanked herself.
Niecy Nash-Betts accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series for “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Niecy Nash-Betts
Niecy Nash-Betts was in tears as she took the stage to accept her Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy for playing the real-life Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” After thanking her wife, she said “I want to thank me for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. Go on girl with your bad self. You did that.”
She also accepted the award on behalf of Cleveland, as well as Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor...
Some thanked their children, others their wives and at one least one winner boldly — and fabulously — thanked herself.
Niecy Nash-Betts accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series for “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Niecy Nash-Betts
Niecy Nash-Betts was in tears as she took the stage to accept her Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy for playing the real-life Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” After thanking her wife, she said “I want to thank me for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. Go on girl with your bad self. You did that.”
She also accepted the award on behalf of Cleveland, as well as Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor...
- 1/16/2024
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Was it because of the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., or simply a sign of the times, that the 2023 Emmys was its most diverse ever?
As the awards show celebrated its 75th anniversary, five of the 12 acting Emmys handed out on Monday night — pushed four months to MLK Day as a result of the 2023 strikes — went to performers of color, tying the record set at the 1991 ceremony, when Lynn Whitfield, Madge Sinclair and Ruby Dee took home statuettes (and James Earl Jones took home two).
The show made history with its first two awards of the night, with wins for The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys both went to Black women in the same year. (The feat was previously accomplished in the drama races with Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba in 2015.) Brunson...
As the awards show celebrated its 75th anniversary, five of the 12 acting Emmys handed out on Monday night — pushed four months to MLK Day as a result of the 2023 strikes — went to performers of color, tying the record set at the 1991 ceremony, when Lynn Whitfield, Madge Sinclair and Ruby Dee took home statuettes (and James Earl Jones took home two).
The show made history with its first two awards of the night, with wins for The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri and Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson marking the first time that the supporting and lead comedy actress Emmys both went to Black women in the same year. (The feat was previously accomplished in the drama races with Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba in 2015.) Brunson...
- 1/16/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Four months late and coming off the heels of two strikes, an awkward Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, there perhaps weren’t many expectations leading into the 75th Primetime Emmys. When actor Anthony Anderson was announced as the host, it seemed like a safe albeit humdrum choice — until news of past sexual assault allegations against the actor began to resurface and go viral, and what had seemed tame became something more unsettling. Yet despite the Anderson controversy, the Television Academy surprised viewers and attendees by delivering a delightful Emmys, honoring classic TV and its legends, while celebrating the shows we love and revere now.
Anderson opened the Emmys with a clever spoof of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and honored several shows and their iconic theme songs — practically a lost art in television today. The “Black-ish” and “Law & Order” alum hit the nail on the head in a pleasingly...
Anderson opened the Emmys with a clever spoof of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and honored several shows and their iconic theme songs — practically a lost art in television today. The “Black-ish” and “Law & Order” alum hit the nail on the head in a pleasingly...
- 1/16/2024
- by Aramide Tinubu
- Variety Film + TV
Awards shows are self-congratulatory parties that rarely feel like they're actually made for the audiences at home, but the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards actually felt like a worthy celebration of the artform of television. Because it's a special anniversary year, they made the effort to really pay tribute to the television we love and the people who create it, and it made for a relatively safe but extremely heartfelt 2024 Emmy awards. It was an incredible night for diversity, with numerous well-deserved, historic wins for people of color across a range of categories, and everyone actually seemed like they were having a good time.
The Golden Globes are more meme-worthy, but the Emmys feel like the Oscars of TV, just with less irritating self-importance. Sure, the Emmys detail the impact of television on us all, but since TV has always been cinema's little brother, there's a bit more deprecation and self-awareness.
The Golden Globes are more meme-worthy, but the Emmys feel like the Oscars of TV, just with less irritating self-importance. Sure, the Emmys detail the impact of television on us all, but since TV has always been cinema's little brother, there's a bit more deprecation and self-awareness.
- 1/16/2024
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
In an emotional speech at the Emmy Awards Monday night, Niecy Nash-Betts dedicated her award to “every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet over-policed.”
Marla Gibbs and Quinta Brunson presented the Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, which the actress won for her role in Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
As Nash-Betts took to the stage, she called it a “divine moment” and thanked co-creator Ryan Murphy “for seeing me.” She also showed her appreciation for her co-star, Evan Peters, and Netflix.
“Every single person who voted for me, thank you,” she added. “And my better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.”
Nash-Betts also thanked herself “for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I want to say to myself in front of...
Marla Gibbs and Quinta Brunson presented the Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, which the actress won for her role in Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
As Nash-Betts took to the stage, she called it a “divine moment” and thanked co-creator Ryan Murphy “for seeing me.” She also showed her appreciation for her co-star, Evan Peters, and Netflix.
“Every single person who voted for me, thank you,” she added. “And my better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.”
Nash-Betts also thanked herself “for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I want to say to myself in front of...
- 1/16/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Niecy Nash-Betts is a winner!
The 53-year-old actress won her first Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited series for her work in Netflix’s Dahmer at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday (January 15) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
In her acceptance speech, she powerfully called out Black women who have been victims of police violence and gone unheard.
“I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard, yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power. And, baby, I’ma do it ‘til the day I die. Mama, I won!” she said.
Earlier in the speech, she said: “Thank you to the most high for this divine moment. Thank you Ryan Murphy for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix, every single person who voted for me,...
The 53-year-old actress won her first Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited series for her work in Netflix’s Dahmer at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday (January 15) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
In her acceptance speech, she powerfully called out Black women who have been victims of police violence and gone unheard.
“I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard, yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power. And, baby, I’ma do it ‘til the day I die. Mama, I won!” she said.
Earlier in the speech, she said: “Thank you to the most high for this divine moment. Thank you Ryan Murphy for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix, every single person who voted for me,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Niecy Nash-Betts took home her first Primetime Emmy Award on Monday, and the five-time nominee took the opportunity to celebrate herself for the milestone achievement. Up top, the actress thanked God for “this divine moment;” then Murphy, Netflix, the Academy voters and her wife, Jessica Betts. But then, it was time for some self-love.
“And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank me for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do,” the actress said during her acceptance speech. “And I want to say to myself in front of all these beautiful people, go on girl with your bad self. You did that!”
Nash-Betts won the prize in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series, for her performance in Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Starring alongside Evan Peters, Nash-Betts plays Dahmer’s suspicious neighbor,...
“And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank me for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do,” the actress said during her acceptance speech. “And I want to say to myself in front of all these beautiful people, go on girl with your bad self. You did that!”
Nash-Betts won the prize in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series, for her performance in Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Starring alongside Evan Peters, Nash-Betts plays Dahmer’s suspicious neighbor,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
75th Emmys: Niecy Nash-Betts honours ‘unheard, yet over-policed’ women like Breonna Taylor in speech
Los Angeles, Jan 16 (Ians) Actress Niecy Nash-Betts was feted with the Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited series and gave a rousing acceptance speech.
Nash-Betts was nominated for her work in the Netflix series ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’.
“I’m a winner, baby! Thank you to the most high for this divine moment,” the actress said.
“Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix. Every single person who voted for me. Thank you. My better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work. Thank you.
“I want to thank me, for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do… I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Go, girl, with your bad self. You did that’.
“Finally, I accept this award on behalf of every Black and...
Nash-Betts was nominated for her work in the Netflix series ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’.
“I’m a winner, baby! Thank you to the most high for this divine moment,” the actress said.
“Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix. Every single person who voted for me. Thank you. My better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work. Thank you.
“I want to thank me, for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do… I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Go, girl, with your bad self. You did that’.
“Finally, I accept this award on behalf of every Black and...
- 1/16/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
“I accept this award on behalf of every black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor,” said Niecy Nash-Betts in a passionate acceptance speech at tonight’s Emmy Awards.
Nash-Betts won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie for her role, noted above, of Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’ Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, who got the brush-off from police when she tried to alert them to the horror down the hall.
“My job is to speak truth to power, and baby I am going to do it until the day I die,” she said.
In the series, Cleveland knew that really bad things were happening in Dahmer’s apartment alerting the police to the smell, the screams, but her calls were repeatedly and condescendingly dismissed, which just about breaks her heart. In one horrific scene,...
Nash-Betts won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie for her role, noted above, of Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’ Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, who got the brush-off from police when she tried to alert them to the horror down the hall.
“My job is to speak truth to power, and baby I am going to do it until the day I die,” she said.
In the series, Cleveland knew that really bad things were happening in Dahmer’s apartment alerting the police to the smell, the screams, but her calls were repeatedly and condescendingly dismissed, which just about breaks her heart. In one horrific scene,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Niecy Nash-Betts took home the Emmy for best supporting actress in a limited series, bringing the awards show audience to its feet with her rousing acceptance speech.
Nash-Betts was nominated for her work in the Netflix series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
“I’m a winner, baby! Thank you to the most high for this divine moment,” Nash-Betts said from the stage. “Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix. Every single person who voted for me. Thank you. My better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work. Thank you.”
“I want to thank me, for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do,” she continued. “I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Go, girl, with your bad self. You did that.’ Finally, I accept this award on...
Nash-Betts was nominated for her work in the Netflix series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
“I’m a winner, baby! Thank you to the most high for this divine moment,” Nash-Betts said from the stage. “Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix. Every single person who voted for me. Thank you. My better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work. Thank you.”
“I want to thank me, for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do,” she continued. “I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Go, girl, with your bad self. You did that.’ Finally, I accept this award on...
- 1/16/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Perhaps it was inevitable that Miss Americana herself would end up in an almost-confirmed relationship with a star of that most American sport — and a reigning champion, no less.
The appearance of Taylor Swift in the box suite of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Sunday, wearing unreleased team merch, marked a major cultural crossover. The pop icon — who fills stadiums so easily she reportedly turned down an invitation to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show — created a different sort of media spectacle at a regular-season NFL game,...
The appearance of Taylor Swift in the box suite of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Sunday, wearing unreleased team merch, marked a major cultural crossover. The pop icon — who fills stadiums so easily she reportedly turned down an invitation to headline the next Super Bowl halftime show — created a different sort of media spectacle at a regular-season NFL game,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Deborah Roberts has been named permanent co-anchor of ABC News’s 20/20, joining David Muir on the network’s flagship magazine program.
Roberts has been contributing anchor for the show for the past year. She succeeds Amy Robach, who departed the network in January after tabloid-headlined scrutiny of her relationship with T.J. Holmes, her co-host on GMA3, who also left the network.
Roberts also will continue to to report across network platforms as senior national affairs correspondent.
Roberts has been reporting for 20/20 since 1995, recruited by her mentor Barbara Walters to join the network. She reported across network news shows, and was a substitute anchor on Good Morning America and guest co-host on The View. The show is now in its 26th season.
ABC News president Kim Godwin wrote in a memo to employees that Roberts “is a skilled investigative journalist, oftentimes trekking across the country to conduct hard-hitting interviews providing viewers with relevant,...
Roberts has been contributing anchor for the show for the past year. She succeeds Amy Robach, who departed the network in January after tabloid-headlined scrutiny of her relationship with T.J. Holmes, her co-host on GMA3, who also left the network.
Roberts also will continue to to report across network platforms as senior national affairs correspondent.
Roberts has been reporting for 20/20 since 1995, recruited by her mentor Barbara Walters to join the network. She reported across network news shows, and was a substitute anchor on Good Morning America and guest co-host on The View. The show is now in its 26th season.
ABC News president Kim Godwin wrote in a memo to employees that Roberts “is a skilled investigative journalist, oftentimes trekking across the country to conduct hard-hitting interviews providing viewers with relevant,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Deborah Roberts has been appointed co-anchor of ABC’s venerable newsmagazine 20/20.
She’ll join returning co-anchor David Muir when Season 46 kicks off Friday, Sept. 29 at 9/8c, following the Season 15 premiere of Shark Tank.
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“Deborah Roberts is one of a kind — a first-class journalist who brings heart, authority and integrity to every story she covers,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement to Variety.
She’ll join returning co-anchor David Muir when Season 46 kicks off Friday, Sept. 29 at 9/8c, following the Season 15 premiere of Shark Tank.
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“Deborah Roberts is one of a kind — a first-class journalist who brings heart, authority and integrity to every story she covers,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement to Variety.
- 9/26/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Deborah Roberts is taking up co-anchor duties at ABC News’ “20/20,” the latest in a line of distinguished anchors that includes Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas who have led the long-running newsmagazine.
Roberts is no stranger to the series’ rhythms. She has been contributing to it for 28 years, ever since she joined ABC News in 1995, recruited by Barbara Walters. She will co-anchor the program with David Muir, who has been with the series since 2013. “Deborah brings her love of storytelling, her deep commitment to the truth, and most of all, her humanity to everything she does,” says Muir. “I cannot wait to stand beside her on ‘20/20.'”
Roberts believes her new role will give her a new sense of belonging to the series’ staff, particularly as ABC News has been working to expand how “20/20” is consumed by its audience. “Once you have...
Roberts is no stranger to the series’ rhythms. She has been contributing to it for 28 years, ever since she joined ABC News in 1995, recruited by Barbara Walters. She will co-anchor the program with David Muir, who has been with the series since 2013. “Deborah brings her love of storytelling, her deep commitment to the truth, and most of all, her humanity to everything she does,” says Muir. “I cannot wait to stand beside her on ‘20/20.'”
Roberts believes her new role will give her a new sense of belonging to the series’ staff, particularly as ABC News has been working to expand how “20/20” is consumed by its audience. “Once you have...
- 9/26/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty years ago, Arian Simone was a college student in Tallahassee, Florida, trying to scrape together money for a small mall-based boutique called Fabulous. “I started to notice that a lot of investors didn’t look like me,” Simone, a Black woman, tells Rolling Stone. “I made a promise to myself to not be concerned about the investor landscape, because one day I was going to be the business investor that I had been looking for.”
Two decades later, the disparity Simone recognized back then persists: According McKinsey and Company,...
Two decades later, the disparity Simone recognized back then persists: According McKinsey and Company,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Examining the growing pains of The 19th*, a non-profit, non-partisan news agency founded right before Covid swept the United States in 2020, Breaking the News is an immersive documentary exploring the importance of and some problems in their work. Founded by former Texas Tribune writers Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora with their life savings as a digital-first, virtual enterprise, the outfit aims to address the gatekeeper problem in journalism: that most editors are still straight white men setting the agenda.
Kate Sosin, a nonbinary reporter who was an early hire, is tasked with covering all Lgtqia+ issues in the nation without much support. Candidly, Sosin speaks of feeling alienated by certain language used by Ramshaw and Zamora in staff emails touting the group as a “sisterhood,” while Ramshaw shares her concern over hiring a staff member that they fear they may not be able to properly support.
Another early hire, Errin Haines,...
Kate Sosin, a nonbinary reporter who was an early hire, is tasked with covering all Lgtqia+ issues in the nation without much support. Candidly, Sosin speaks of feeling alienated by certain language used by Ramshaw and Zamora in staff emails touting the group as a “sisterhood,” while Ramshaw shares her concern over hiring a staff member that they fear they may not be able to properly support.
Another early hire, Errin Haines,...
- 6/29/2023
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
“Happy Juneteenth!”
The holiday, which was designated a federal holiday in 2021 and has been recognized within Black and African-American communities for far longer than that, has gained broader recognition in recent years.
Still, for many Americans there is much to learn about the new holiday. Many people of all races remain unsure of what Juneteenth is, mostly because not much is taught about the holiday in public schools.
Juneteenth, also referred to as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, commemorates the total abolition of slavery in the U.S. that took place on June 19, 1865. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier — making slavery illegal by Jan. 1, 1863 — many enslaved people were still not free because slave owners in the south, and particularly Texas, neglected to tell the people they enslaved for months. In fact, many slave owners relocated the enslaved and plantations to Texas because it was viewed...
The holiday, which was designated a federal holiday in 2021 and has been recognized within Black and African-American communities for far longer than that, has gained broader recognition in recent years.
Still, for many Americans there is much to learn about the new holiday. Many people of all races remain unsure of what Juneteenth is, mostly because not much is taught about the holiday in public schools.
Juneteenth, also referred to as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, commemorates the total abolition of slavery in the U.S. that took place on June 19, 1865. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier — making slavery illegal by Jan. 1, 1863 — many enslaved people were still not free because slave owners in the south, and particularly Texas, neglected to tell the people they enslaved for months. In fact, many slave owners relocated the enslaved and plantations to Texas because it was viewed...
- 6/19/2023
- by Samson Amore and Rasha Ali
- The Wrap
The U.S. Department of Justice has released the findings of their investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, saying cops routinely violated the Constitutional rights of citizens, used excessive force, and discriminated against Black and Native American people in enforcement activities.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the findings of the investigation — which was launched in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd — at a press conference Friday, June 16. Garland said “there is reasonable cause to believe” the Mpd and City of Minneapolis “engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct” that...
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the findings of the investigation — which was launched in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd — at a press conference Friday, June 16. Garland said “there is reasonable cause to believe” the Mpd and City of Minneapolis “engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct” that...
- 6/16/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Former Pink Floyd Singer Roger Waters Under Investigation For Wearing Nazi Costume At Berlin Concert
While performing the song “In the Flesh?” in Berlin, Roger Waters dressed up in a costume that resembled a Nazi SS uniform. Martin Halweg, a spokesman for the German police, said that they were investigating Waters on “suspicion of incitement to public hatred” under German laws against antisemitism and promoting Nazi imagery.
Great news! Berlin police have launched a criminal investigation into Roger Waters following his concert in which he dressed like a Nazi SS officer holding a gun and denigrated the murder of Anne Frank.
Shockingly @AMCTheatres is promoting Waters currently. pic.twitter.com/6AlIHMmbR2
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 25, 2023
In a Facebook post, Waters criticized the “bad-faith attacks” and labeled those investigating him as people who want to “smear and silence” him for his “political views and moral principles.”
Waters said that “In the Flesh?,” which comes from the Pink Floyd album The Wall, was written as a satire about fascism.
Great news! Berlin police have launched a criminal investigation into Roger Waters following his concert in which he dressed like a Nazi SS officer holding a gun and denigrated the murder of Anne Frank.
Shockingly @AMCTheatres is promoting Waters currently. pic.twitter.com/6AlIHMmbR2
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 25, 2023
In a Facebook post, Waters criticized the “bad-faith attacks” and labeled those investigating him as people who want to “smear and silence” him for his “political views and moral principles.”
Waters said that “In the Flesh?,” which comes from the Pink Floyd album The Wall, was written as a satire about fascism.
- 5/31/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Though Wanda Sykes began working on “I’m an Entertainer,” her latest Netflix stand-up special, in 2019, hardly any of the material she wrote prior to March 2020 made it into the show. Instead, it was the radioactive events of the pandemic era — from Covid vaccinations to the Jan. 6 insurrection, the battle over trans rights to the murders of Black Americans like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Elijah McClain — that Sykes was drawn to.
Those deaths and the racial reckoning that followed were not obvious fodder for making people laugh. “All that stuff just kept piling on,” Sykes says, her voice softer and more tentative than the tart Southern twang she deploys on stage. “I knew I wanted to talk about it, but I just didn’t know how to make it funny. We were all just so angry.”
So the 59-year-old comedian began with herself, digging deep into her...
Those deaths and the racial reckoning that followed were not obvious fodder for making people laugh. “All that stuff just kept piling on,” Sykes says, her voice softer and more tentative than the tart Southern twang she deploys on stage. “I knew I wanted to talk about it, but I just didn’t know how to make it funny. We were all just so angry.”
So the 59-year-old comedian began with herself, digging deep into her...
- 5/23/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
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The road to Atlanta stretches before Bubba Wallace and his wife, Amanda, as they drive their hulking Rv into the Georgia sky. The crinkle of a McDonald’s bag echoes through the speaker during our phone interview as Wallace continues on his sixth full-time season in the NASCAR Cup Series. The expectations for this run are stacked, and having Michael Jordan as your boss doesn’t help, either.
Wallace...
The road to Atlanta stretches before Bubba Wallace and his wife, Amanda, as they drive their hulking Rv into the Georgia sky. The crinkle of a McDonald’s bag echoes through the speaker during our phone interview as Wallace continues on his sixth full-time season in the NASCAR Cup Series. The expectations for this run are stacked, and having Michael Jordan as your boss doesn’t help, either.
Wallace...
- 5/9/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
To Catch a Killer’s logline is about as familiar as its title: a rookie cop with a detective’s intelligence and drive, Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) finds her burgeoning career prospects perpetually dragged down by the demons that haunt her. Yet when a mass killer strikes the city, the chance for personal catharsis and her future in law enforcement firmly intersect.
The upside-down opening shot of the Baltimore cityscape (actually Montreal) followed by a rooftop Edm party at least kind of promises a gaudy affair, yet a good majority of the runtime is rather handsome widescreen compositions of various figures flanked by fluorescent office lights in police offices. Which is representative of how the tone and style are strangely hard to pin down: it seems stuck somewhere between a cold Fincher procedural and flashy, sleazy De Palma thriller.
Certainly there’s a little more effort put into the form than the average dumped,...
The upside-down opening shot of the Baltimore cityscape (actually Montreal) followed by a rooftop Edm party at least kind of promises a gaudy affair, yet a good majority of the runtime is rather handsome widescreen compositions of various figures flanked by fluorescent office lights in police offices. Which is representative of how the tone and style are strangely hard to pin down: it seems stuck somewhere between a cold Fincher procedural and flashy, sleazy De Palma thriller.
Certainly there’s a little more effort put into the form than the average dumped,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
A few main cast members have left ABC‘s The Rookie over five seasons. Mercedes Mason, who played Zoe Andersen, and Afton Williamson, who played Talia Bishop, exited the series during and after the first season. But the most heartbreaking departure came when The Rookie killed off Titus Makin Jr.’s character Jackson West in the season 4 premiere.
Titus Makin Jr. as Jackson West | Gilles Mingasson via Getty Images Titus Makin Jr. played Jackson West in ‘The Rookie’ until the character’s death
The Rookie introduced Titus Makin Jr.’s character Jackson West during the series premiere. He, Nathan Fillion’s John Nolan, and Melissa O’Neil’s Lucy Chen were all rookies assigned to the Mid-Wilshire station in the LAPD. Jackson’s training officer was Angela Lopez, and the two developed a close friendship over their time together.
Jackson also trained in the academy alongside Nolan and Chen, so they had a close bond.
Titus Makin Jr. as Jackson West | Gilles Mingasson via Getty Images Titus Makin Jr. played Jackson West in ‘The Rookie’ until the character’s death
The Rookie introduced Titus Makin Jr.’s character Jackson West during the series premiere. He, Nathan Fillion’s John Nolan, and Melissa O’Neil’s Lucy Chen were all rookies assigned to the Mid-Wilshire station in the LAPD. Jackson’s training officer was Angela Lopez, and the two developed a close friendship over their time together.
Jackson also trained in the academy alongside Nolan and Chen, so they had a close bond.
- 3/13/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
After a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice concluded that the Louisville Police Department has definitely been discriminatory toward Black people, Marlon Wayans isn’t surprised at all. On Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” he mocked the findings, wondering if the DOJ also discovers obvious things like Nick Cannon’s disregard for protection during sex.
“I almost got through the whole entire week without talking about racist cops,” Wayans lamented while kicking off the final Headlines segment of his turn as guest host on “The Daily Show” on Thursday night. “But, guess what we’re gonna talk about today!”
Wayans then waded into the findings of the investigation by the DOJ, first launched after the botched raid on a no-knock warrant that killed Breonna Taylor in her home in March of 2020. And, according to the DOJ’s findings, the Louisville police department has “for years” used...
“I almost got through the whole entire week without talking about racist cops,” Wayans lamented while kicking off the final Headlines segment of his turn as guest host on “The Daily Show” on Thursday night. “But, guess what we’re gonna talk about today!”
Wayans then waded into the findings of the investigation by the DOJ, first launched after the botched raid on a no-knock warrant that killed Breonna Taylor in her home in March of 2020. And, according to the DOJ’s findings, the Louisville police department has “for years” used...
- 3/10/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that the Louisville police engaged in “a pattern” of civil rights violations following an investigation into the police department in the aftermath of the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Among the Justice Department’s findings were that the Louisville Metro Police Department used “excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers,” conducted searches based on invalid warrants, and executed no-knock warrants (both of which ultimately resulted in Taylor’s death), and unlawfully discriminated against Black people.
Among the Justice Department’s findings were that the Louisville Metro Police Department used “excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers,” conducted searches based on invalid warrants, and executed no-knock warrants (both of which ultimately resulted in Taylor’s death), and unlawfully discriminated against Black people.
- 3/8/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Lyrics from “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” have been quietly removed from the set list of Disneyland’s Magic Happens parade. The melody originates from the 1946 feature “Song of the South,” which has been criticized for featuring racist imagery and themes.
Disneyland officials confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that a lyric from the song was removed from the soundtrack of the Magic Happens parade, which is held twice daily at the Anaheim resort. The Magic Happens parade returned to the park on Feb. 24, ending a three-year hiatus prompted by the Covid pandemic. According to the report, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” has been replaced by a song from the 1953 feature “Peter Pan.”
Representatives for Disneyland were not immediately available for comment.
The change in the parade follows plans to close the park’s classic ride Splash Mountain, which was designed with references to “Song of the South.” The attraction will be reconfigured to feature themes and...
Disneyland officials confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that a lyric from the song was removed from the soundtrack of the Magic Happens parade, which is held twice daily at the Anaheim resort. The Magic Happens parade returned to the park on Feb. 24, ending a three-year hiatus prompted by the Covid pandemic. According to the report, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” has been replaced by a song from the 1953 feature “Peter Pan.”
Representatives for Disneyland were not immediately available for comment.
The change in the parade follows plans to close the park’s classic ride Splash Mountain, which was designed with references to “Song of the South.” The attraction will be reconfigured to feature themes and...
- 3/7/2023
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Abbott Elementary were among the top winners of the 2023 NAACP Image Awards.
Bassett took the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at the Queen Latifah-hosted ceremony, with Latifah herself presenting her with the honor. And when Bassett took the stage to accept the last award of the Saturday night live ceremony, her first remarks referenced Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTA rap.
“I guess Angela Bassett did the thing, huh?” Bassett said.
After acknowledging her “sisters” in the all-female Entertainer of the Year category, Bassett reflected on her past projects like What’s Love Got to Do with It and How Stella Got Her Groove Back and working with directors like Spike Lee and the late John Singleton. She mentioned her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever writer-director, Ryan Coogler, last, saying he “showed us that we are royalty and he built the crown for us all to wear.
Bassett took the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at the Queen Latifah-hosted ceremony, with Latifah herself presenting her with the honor. And when Bassett took the stage to accept the last award of the Saturday night live ceremony, her first remarks referenced Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTA rap.
“I guess Angela Bassett did the thing, huh?” Bassett said.
After acknowledging her “sisters” in the all-female Entertainer of the Year category, Bassett reflected on her past projects like What’s Love Got to Do with It and How Stella Got Her Groove Back and working with directors like Spike Lee and the late John Singleton. She mentioned her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever writer-director, Ryan Coogler, last, saying he “showed us that we are royalty and he built the crown for us all to wear.
- 2/26/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Sunday night at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, hip-hop pioneer Dr. Dre was honored with an award that will newly bear his name – the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. The honor is a project of the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective, which debuted the Global Impact Award last year, simply as such. The Collective was established after the mass protests of 2020, fueled by the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor by police. And for some, Dre’s moniker upon this award also fuels indignance...
- 2/8/2023
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
ReviewThis historical fiction is solace, upliftment, and testimony, all at once.OfficialFilmPosterBody 2:
The last word spoken in The Woman King is the name Breonna—a call back to the Black Lives Matter slogan ‘Say their Names’. In March 2020, Breonna Taylor was murdered by the police in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky. She was shot five times during a midnight raid in a case she had little to do with. Justice for Breonna and the many other African-American lives claimed by police brutality and white power remains elusive in America. It is these ideas of justice, memorialising, systemic violence from the past, its echoes in the present, and the particular trauma and resistance of Black women, that The Women King deals with. The historical fiction film is set in the early 1800s in a west African kingdom called Dahomey (modern-day Benin). Breonna’s name which echoes across the theatre...
The last word spoken in The Woman King is the name Breonna—a call back to the Black Lives Matter slogan ‘Say their Names’. In March 2020, Breonna Taylor was murdered by the police in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky. She was shot five times during a midnight raid in a case she had little to do with. Justice for Breonna and the many other African-American lives claimed by police brutality and white power remains elusive in America. It is these ideas of justice, memorialising, systemic violence from the past, its echoes in the present, and the particular trauma and resistance of Black women, that The Women King deals with. The historical fiction film is set in the early 1800s in a west African kingdom called Dahomey (modern-day Benin). Breonna’s name which echoes across the theatre...
- 2/3/2023
- by BharathyS
- The News Minute
Tyre Nichols was laid to rest Wednesday following a memorial service in Memphis, nearly one month after the 29-year-old died after being beaten by five police officers during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.
Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance at the funeral after being invited to speak at the last minute by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Harris denounced the actions of the police officers who beat Nichols and called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, saying that President Joe Biden would sign it into law.
Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance at the funeral after being invited to speak at the last minute by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Harris denounced the actions of the police officers who beat Nichols and called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, saying that President Joe Biden would sign it into law.
- 2/1/2023
- by Daniel Kreps and Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When director A.V. Rockwell attended Sundance in 2018, her short film “Feathers” was acquired by Searchlight and later qualified for the Oscars. Even with that high bar, her 2023 experience at the festival exceeded expectations, as her debut feature “A Thousand and One” went home with the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
A potent dose of kitchen sink realism in the pantheon of gritty New York stories, the movie stars Teyana Taylor as a struggling Harlem woman who kidnaps her child from foster care and raises him over the course of two decades.
An intimate period piece that starts in 1994 and ends in 2005, “A Thousand and One” shows the filmmaker’s trenchant ability to juggle the vast themes of class and race in tandem with gentrification while maintaining a powerful emotional centerpiece built around a poignant mother-son dynamic. Produced by Focus Features, which releases the movie at the end of March,...
A potent dose of kitchen sink realism in the pantheon of gritty New York stories, the movie stars Teyana Taylor as a struggling Harlem woman who kidnaps her child from foster care and raises him over the course of two decades.
An intimate period piece that starts in 1994 and ends in 2005, “A Thousand and One” shows the filmmaker’s trenchant ability to juggle the vast themes of class and race in tandem with gentrification while maintaining a powerful emotional centerpiece built around a poignant mother-son dynamic. Produced by Focus Features, which releases the movie at the end of March,...
- 1/29/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Sundance alum Qasim Basir returns to Park City with “To Live and Die and Live,” an endlessly grim tale about a filmmaker’s homecoming to Detroit for his father’s funeral and some unfinished business. This is set against a palette of the prevailing sense of alienation he experiences within his extended family, creative circles, and the Muslim community.
Muhammad first emerges, sobbing, from a kaleidoscopic blur that turns out to be illuminated advertisements along an airport terminal’s moving walkway. In a split second his mood shifts. After a quick visit with his drug dealer, he makes his way to a club where purple-haired Asia catches his eye as she writhes on the dance floor. She swats his wandering hand away, yet she doesn’t outright shut him down. She does, however, draw a line when he gets exercised over her picking up his phone.
Apparently without any rest,...
Muhammad first emerges, sobbing, from a kaleidoscopic blur that turns out to be illuminated advertisements along an airport terminal’s moving walkway. In a split second his mood shifts. After a quick visit with his drug dealer, he makes his way to a club where purple-haired Asia catches his eye as she writhes on the dance floor. She swats his wandering hand away, yet she doesn’t outright shut him down. She does, however, draw a line when he gets exercised over her picking up his phone.
Apparently without any rest,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Martin Tsai
- The Wrap
The eight-season run of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" was quite a ride. Premiering in 2013, the workplace comedy about the NYPD's 99th precinct capped its first season with surprise Golden Globe wins for best comedy and best television actor in a musical or comedy series for star Andy Samberg. The show continued to receive critical acclaim but never topped the television ratings, leading Fox to cancel the series just shy of its fifth season finale. Due in large part to the outcry from loyal fans, NBC swept in the next day and picked up the quirky comedy for an additional three seasons.
After an extended hiatus due to Covid-19, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" resumed production in a world shaken by anti-police protests following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. In response to growing cries of "copaganda," Samberg told People the cast and crew were "taking a step back" and "discussing how you...
After an extended hiatus due to Covid-19, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" resumed production in a world shaken by anti-police protests following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. In response to growing cries of "copaganda," Samberg told People the cast and crew were "taking a step back" and "discussing how you...
- 12/28/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- Slash Film
The city of Louisville has reached a 2 million settlement with Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who sued the city over the police killing of his late partner in 2020, The New York Times reports.
Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock warrant. Walker has said he believed the police were intruders, so when they burst in, he fired his shotgun, hitting an officer. The police replied with a torrent of gunfire, killing Taylor. (Walker was initially charged with attempted murder,...
Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock warrant. Walker has said he believed the police were intruders, so when they burst in, he fired his shotgun, hitting an officer. The police replied with a torrent of gunfire, killing Taylor. (Walker was initially charged with attempted murder,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Atlanta City Council has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Rayshard Brooks — a Black man shot and killed by a white police officer in 2020 — for 1 million, The New York Times reports.
The settlement comes three months after a special prosecutor cleared Garret Rolfe, as well as his partner that day, Devin Brosnan, of any wrongdoing. The Atlanta City Council, despite settling with Brooks’ widow and estate, also found the officers’ use of deadly force to be reasonable.
Lawyers for Brooks’ family, L. Chris Stewart, Justin Miller,...
The settlement comes three months after a special prosecutor cleared Garret Rolfe, as well as his partner that day, Devin Brosnan, of any wrongdoing. The Atlanta City Council, despite settling with Brooks’ widow and estate, also found the officers’ use of deadly force to be reasonable.
Lawyers for Brooks’ family, L. Chris Stewart, Justin Miller,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Brandon Kyle Goodman’s newly published You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are is much more than an advice book.
Goodman’s new book is part memoir, following the actor and writer’s journey toward fully embracing their many identities, which include being Black, queer and non-binary. It is also an engaging an Ask Me Anything for anyone who may have questions about identifying as non-binary, the distinctions between sex, gender and gender expression, and how all of those things can intersect.
Goodman, a voice actor and writer on the hilariously raunchy animated shows Big Mouth and Human Resources (whose credits also include Feel the Beat and Curb Your Enthusiasm), grew up in a religious household in New York and came out as gay in college. Goodman, who uses he/they pronouns, then...
Brandon Kyle Goodman’s newly published You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are is much more than an advice book.
Goodman’s new book is part memoir, following the actor and writer’s journey toward fully embracing their many identities, which include being Black, queer and non-binary. It is also an engaging an Ask Me Anything for anyone who may have questions about identifying as non-binary, the distinctions between sex, gender and gender expression, and how all of those things can intersect.
Goodman, a voice actor and writer on the hilariously raunchy animated shows Big Mouth and Human Resources (whose credits also include Feel the Beat and Curb Your Enthusiasm), grew up in a religious household in New York and came out as gay in college. Goodman, who uses he/they pronouns, then...
- 10/21/2022
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SNL host and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion on Saturday performed the single “Anxiety” from her second studio album, Traumazine.
The 18-track album, which came out in August, offers “a motley mix of slick bops and searing confessionals that wonderfully encapsulate all of her various vibes,” as Rolling Stone’s Will Dukes wrote in a review. It also features songs like “Sweetest Pie” with Dua Lipa, “Pressurelicious” with Future, and “Who Me” with Pooh Shiesty.
In her earlier monologue, Megan mentioned the mental health website Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too,...
The 18-track album, which came out in August, offers “a motley mix of slick bops and searing confessionals that wonderfully encapsulate all of her various vibes,” as Rolling Stone’s Will Dukes wrote in a review. It also features songs like “Sweetest Pie” with Dua Lipa, “Pressurelicious” with Future, and “Who Me” with Pooh Shiesty.
In her earlier monologue, Megan mentioned the mental health website Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too,...
- 10/16/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
Sarah Sherman is roaming the halls of Saturday Night Live butt-naked. Well, at least in the teaser for this weekend’s episode hosted by Megan Thee Stallion.
Sherman pops her head in to check on Megan, who’s practicing her lines on Saturday’s show, where she will serve as both host and musical guest. “Oh my god! Sarah girl, hey! I am so excited,” Meg says. “I’m a little nervous, but I feel like we’re gonna have fun.” Sherman — who’s only shown close up in the first few shots— responds,...
Sherman pops her head in to check on Megan, who’s practicing her lines on Saturday’s show, where she will serve as both host and musical guest. “Oh my god! Sarah girl, hey! I am so excited,” Meg says. “I’m a little nervous, but I feel like we’re gonna have fun.” Sherman — who’s only shown close up in the first few shots— responds,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk.
Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock warrant on the residence. Upon bursting into the apartment, Walker — believing it was an intruder — fired a shot; police responded by firing more than 20 bullets into the apartment, killing Taylor. It was later revealed that police, searching for a drug dealer,...
Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock warrant on the residence. Upon bursting into the apartment, Walker — believing it was an intruder — fired a shot; police responded by firing more than 20 bullets into the apartment, killing Taylor. It was later revealed that police, searching for a drug dealer,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
A few days after Kayne West and models for his new Yeezy line donned “White Lives Matter” T-shirts at Paris Fashion Week, “Ye,” made an appearance on the show where white lives matter most: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now it’s over. You’re welcome,” West wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Not surprisingly, West found a sympathetic ear with Carlson on Thursday, Fox’s resident champion of white nationalist ideology and a professed critic of the Black Lives Matter movement...
“Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now it’s over. You’re welcome,” West wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Not surprisingly, West found a sympathetic ear with Carlson on Thursday, Fox’s resident champion of white nationalist ideology and a professed critic of the Black Lives Matter movement...
- 10/7/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-James, is the latest to speak out against Kanye “Ye” West‘s controversial Yzy Szn 9 runway show.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Cooper-James expressed her “extreme disappointment” for West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt.
“As a result of his display ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending in the U.S., which would directly support and legitimize extremist behavior, [much] like the behaviour that took the life of her son,” Cooper-James said per her attorney, Lee Merritt. “That is the thing that Wanda and families like hers continue to fight against.”
“This mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement and his now denunciation of the movement as some sort of hoax flies directly in the face [of what he’s said,]” the statement added. “It’s confusing for her, it’s confusing for the families to receive his support privately, but publicly to set us all back.”
West has drawn heavy criticism for his Oct.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Cooper-James expressed her “extreme disappointment” for West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt.
“As a result of his display ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending in the U.S., which would directly support and legitimize extremist behavior, [much] like the behaviour that took the life of her son,” Cooper-James said per her attorney, Lee Merritt. “That is the thing that Wanda and families like hers continue to fight against.”
“This mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement and his now denunciation of the movement as some sort of hoax flies directly in the face [of what he’s said,]” the statement added. “It’s confusing for her, it’s confusing for the families to receive his support privately, but publicly to set us all back.”
West has drawn heavy criticism for his Oct.
- 10/5/2022
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Kanye West’s latest stunt of championing the slogan “White Lives Matter” and decrying Black Lives Matter as a “scam” has not only brought sharp rebukes from his music and fashion industry peers, but from the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, whom the rapper had privately supported after her son was murdered in a racially-motivated attack.
Wanda Cooper-Jones tells Rolling Stone in a statement that West’s actions “flies directly in the face” of what he had expressed to her family after her 25-year-old son was killed when he went for...
Wanda Cooper-Jones tells Rolling Stone in a statement that West’s actions “flies directly in the face” of what he had expressed to her family after her 25-year-old son was killed when he went for...
- 10/4/2022
- by Cheyenne Roundtree
- Rollingstone.com
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The New York Film Festival on Saturday night hosted the world premiere of Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, about the lynching of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice.
After the screening, Whoopi Goldberg, who both produced and stars in the film that she’s said has taken more than a decade to come to fruition, spoke about the larger social issues that the film reflects and urged audiences to connect what they see to what’s happening now.
“Now you know what institutionalized racism looks like and you can connect it to your own life,” Goldberg told the crowd. “Maybe you’re a gay person. Maybe you’re a woman. Maybe you’re an Asian person. You all understand this hatred because it’s coming closer and closer. What we see on that screen is the culmination of what systematic racism looks like.
The New York Film Festival on Saturday night hosted the world premiere of Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, about the lynching of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice.
After the screening, Whoopi Goldberg, who both produced and stars in the film that she’s said has taken more than a decade to come to fruition, spoke about the larger social issues that the film reflects and urged audiences to connect what they see to what’s happening now.
“Now you know what institutionalized racism looks like and you can connect it to your own life,” Goldberg told the crowd. “Maybe you’re a gay person. Maybe you’re a woman. Maybe you’re an Asian person. You all understand this hatred because it’s coming closer and closer. What we see on that screen is the culmination of what systematic racism looks like.
- 10/2/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the breakout stars of the 2020 election cycle was a young dad from Louisville, Kentucky: progressive representative Charles Booker, who took on the Democratic establishment candidate, Amy McGrath, in the primary. Both McGrath and Booker hoped to unseat Mitch McConnell, who happened to be up for re-election that year, a man whose been in the Senate for as long (37 years) as Charles Booker has been alive.
With McGrath already raking in millions of dollars in donations thanks to a campaign ad highlighting her experience as a fighter pilot, Booker undertook a socially-distanced bus campaign, a journey not just to win the primary, but also to unite Kentuckians across racial boundaries, with the common goal of ending poverty in the state, one of the poorest in the nation.
That journey is depicted in Pat McGee’s documentary “From the Hood to the Holler,” which takes its title from one of Booker’s campaign slogans.
With McGrath already raking in millions of dollars in donations thanks to a campaign ad highlighting her experience as a fighter pilot, Booker undertook a socially-distanced bus campaign, a journey not just to win the primary, but also to unite Kentuckians across racial boundaries, with the common goal of ending poverty in the state, one of the poorest in the nation.
That journey is depicted in Pat McGee’s documentary “From the Hood to the Holler,” which takes its title from one of Booker’s campaign slogans.
- 9/15/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
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