Good thing Stephen Colbert is here to educate us about confusing congressional bylaws. The “Late Show” host used an early portion of his Wednesday monologue to break down the little known Senate rule that was apparently invoked to silence Elizabeth Warren after she tried to read Coretta Scott King’s 1986 letter urging the rejection of Jeff Sessions as a federal judge. Evidently, Rule 19 “prohibits a Senator of impugning the character of another sitting Senator,” per Colbert’s lesson. So why were Bernie Sanders and other men later granted permission to read excerpts from the same letter on the same floor?...
- 2/9/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Recapping a very busy day in Trumpocalypse, Stephen Colbert opened Late Show talking about the muzzling of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the floor of the Senate, when she had tried to read a letter about new Attorney General Jeff Sessions written by Coretta Scott King. After deep diving on that subject, Colbert blasted President Donald Trump’s anti-Nordstrom tweet from the White House’s Potus Twitter handle. “This is insane, you can't use the power of the office of the…...
- 2/9/2017
- Deadline TV
Hillel Italie, Associated Press
New York (AP) - Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."
Her story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read memoirs of the past few decades.
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement. The 86-year-old had been a professor of...
New York (AP) - Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."
Her story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read memoirs of the past few decades.
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement. The 86-year-old had been a professor of...
- 5/28/2014
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
It could just be that I've only now just started paying close attention, but it seems like Lifetime has been getting quite aggressive in the movie department - especially with regards to films that tell stories about black women. There's the all-black cast remake of Steel Magnolias, the recent acquisition of Terry McMillan’s A Day Late And A Dollar Short which the network plans to adapt, the Mary J. Blige project which centers on the relationship between Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King called Parallel Lives, and there was Taraji P. Henson In Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story last year. Has Lifetime ever had this many...
- 6/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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