Month: June 2020

On Saturday morning, CNN and Sesame Street joined forces to educated kids and adults about important issues with an hour-long special titled: Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Families. The show touched on topics such as racism and the recent nationwide protests, which have been in response to the Black Lives
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Legal Aid, the largest social justice law firm in N.Y.C., fights for those the criminal justice system is stacked against. Right now, besides representing people arrested during this week’s marches, Legal Aid is [suing the N.Y.P.D.](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-legal-aid-lawsuit-20200603-c7cgrffts5gbla7kxjhu2lbqg4-story.html) for keeping over 100 protestors in jail for over 24 hours between arrest and arraignment (which is illegal). —Samuel
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Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, celebs like Lady Gaga and Lizzo are handing over their Instagram accounts to Black leaders. Celebrities with tens of millions of followers are handing over their Instagram accounts to Black change makers. Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes, Lady Gaga, and Lizzo are among the stars who have asked Black leaders to takeover their accounts.
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The TV network coverage at the corner H and 16th streets near Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C. this week went from late-night shots of buildings on fire to protesters fleeing police on horseback, then a robust militaristic buildup, and then hundreds of peaceful demonstrators singing, in unison, Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me.” By Friday,
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Topic, the streaming service from First Look Media, has acquired North American rights to Danish drama series When The Dust Settles and doc series Through Greenland, fronted by Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The former will debut exclusively on the service on July 16 and the latter launches on August 27. When the Dust
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Dwyane Wade has defended wife Gabrielle Union following the discrimination complaint she filed on Thursday after her firing from NBCUniversal’s America’s Got Talent. After NBC called Union’s accusations “categorically untrue,” the former NBA star took to social media to share his thoughts on the ordeal. “Y’all have deemed her a liar after months of trying
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The following contains major spoilers for season four of 13 Reasons Why After four years of traumatic storylines that involved teen suicide, sexual assault, gun violence, homophobia, drug abuse, and mental health, 13 Reasons Why has come to an end. On Friday, at a time when hype for the once widely-discussed teen series had long
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We’ve seen Elisabeth Moss take on corporate male toxicity in Mad Men, a ghost of a man in The Invisible Man, Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale and punk rock in Her Smell. This weekend we’ll see her try her as a horror author who tries not unravel as she goes through her creative process in the Josephine Decker-directed Shirley. The
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We The Women was founded by two actors, Nathalie Love and Samantha Ressler, as a way of rebalancing the sheer gender inequality in theatre, the arts and the entertainment industry at large. The numbers are still stacked against women and in favour of white male straight performers, who are still given a disproportionate platform across
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While 10 days of protests following the police-caused death of George Floyd have largely replaced COVID-19 as the news story of the moment, Bill Maher sees a direct link between the two. Shutting down much of the country during the coronavirus pandemic, the Real Time host argued during a panel segment on the show, motivated
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WARNING: This article and video contain coarse language and may be offensive or inappropriate for some audience members. Please read at your own discretion. Travis Barker, the 44-year-old drummer of Blink-182, has joined forces with Machine Gun Kelly (MGK), for yet another musical collaboration. This time, the two have covered Rage Against the Machine‘s 1992
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Chock full of more vitality than most any other component you’re going to hear in a country, bluegrass or roots record this spring, the banjo play in tracks like High Fidelity’s “Feudin’ Banjos” feels like aural joy personified for the pastoral-minded. There’s so much intensity to the strings that we find in this song and
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