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One of the final performances by Chadwick Boseman was as Stormin’ Norman in Spike Lee‘s excellent Netflix drama Da 5 Bloods, also starring Jonathan Majors and Delroy Lindo. In a new cover story, the prolific Lee reflected on working with Boseman on the acclaimed Vietnam War-centric film. Speaking with Clayton Davis for a Variety piece published on […]
Netflix is facing criminal charges over Cuties, a coming-of-age film that has been widely criticized for exploiting young actors and encouraging the sexualization of children. According to legal documents obtained by the Texas Tribune, a grand jury in Tyler, Texas, indicted the streaming giant for promoting content that “depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or […]
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller has tested positive for coronavirus, adding to the growing list of Donald Trump officials who’ve contracted the disease within the past week. Miller confirmed his diagnosis in a statement Tuesday to NPR: “Over the last 5 days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday. Today, I […]
Cardi B received backlash this week after she promoted a virtual fundraiser for Armenia. The post was shared amid Armenia’s escalating conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory. CBS News reports that over the past week, dozens of people have reportedly died and hundreds have been injured due to the clash. International leaders have since called for both sides to […]
Months after Mark and Patricia McCloskey went viral for waving their guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home, the couple has now been indicted by a grand jury in St. Louis on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner charged the couple with felony unlawful use of a weapon […]
Facebook has banned all QAnon accounts from its platforms. The social networking giant announced the move on Tuesday, following mounting pressure to effectively crack down on the far-right conspiracy movement. “Starting today, we will remove Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts for representing QAnon,” Facebook wrote in a press release. “We’re starting to enforce this updated policy today and are […]
Two former Oklahoma County jail guards and their supervisor were hit with cruelty to prisoner charges for torturing inmates by allegedly forcing them to listen to “Baby Shark,” BuzzFeed reports. Christian Miles and Greg Butler, Jr. reportedly forced four inmates to stand alone in rooms handcuffed to a wall at the Oklahoma County Detention Center while they listened to […]
Amid his publicity stunt-laden COVID-19 experience, Donald Trump—the constant coverage of whom surely benefits no one—is once again pushing false narratives about the virus that’s taken the lives of more than 209,000 Americans. In messages shared to his Twitter and Facebook pages on Tuesday, the frequent pandemic downplayer recklessly compared the coronavirus to the seasonal flu. “Many […]
2020 has seen a number of high-profile acts of protest in response to acts of violence by police. Players from both the NBA and the WNBA have been at the forefront of such protests, with many deciding to not take the court—or to walk away from entire seasons—in protest of recent police killings of George […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its COVID-19 guidance to include acknowledgement of the possibility of airborne spread of coronavirus. On Monday, the CDC shared a message to its official site stating they had chose to include information about the “potential for airborne spread” while noting that current science still states that […]
