“Blackish” has never shied away from serious topics, but Tuesday night’s episode about colorism marked a particularly weighty moment for the ABC sitcom.
Spike Lee famously explored society’s overt preference for lighter skin and the long-simmering tension it has caused among black Americans in his 1988 film, “School Daze.” “A Different World,” which predates “Blackish” by more than two decades, also took on the issue. But as “Blackish” executive producer Peter Saji noted in a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter, it’s still a delicate topic.
Forget “Me Before You,” the weepy romantic drama about a quadriplegic man, the young woman who falls in love with him while working as his caregiver and his plans to commit suicide, which has come under fire from disability activists. The biggest movie about characters with disabilities hits theaters Friday, and if history is any record, it’s likely to be a massive global hit.
Of course, it says a lot about the state of storytelling about disability in Hollywood that the characters in question are cartoon fish.
Indirectly rebirthing Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” is one of the best things the Internal Revenue Service has ever done.
On Sunday, TMZ reported that the rapper has been hit with a $2,412,283 federal tax lien back in August. Over at SPIN, we hatched a harebrained scheme: to determine how many times Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” would need to be streamed on Spotify to pay off the debt. After some iPhone calculator mathematics, SPIN tweeted the answer: “Nelly Needs At Least 287,176,547 ‘Hot In Herre’ Streams to Pay Off His IRS Debt.
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$1.8 Million Joe Budden Wiki BiographyJoe Budden, who was born as Joseph Anthony Budden II but is mostly known as just Joe Budden, is a famous and very well-known American rapper. Joe’s net worth is estimated to be $5 million as of 2014.
He was born on the 31st August 1980 in New York City, New York, in the United States. Despite being unsuccessful in high school, he began rapping with his friends.
Explore More A Nigerian social media influencer who called himself Ray Hushpuppi and flaunted a lavish lifestyle fueled by his efforts to launder millions of stolen dollars was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to more than 11 years in federal prison.
Ramon Abbas, 40, also was ordered by a federal judge to pay $1.7 million in restitution to two fraud victims, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Days before hitting the studio with her old bandmates, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, the volatile, theatrical third of Grammy-winning R&B group TLC, died in a head-on car crash during a Central American vacation, her management said yesterday.
Known for her fiery temper and squeaky rapping voice, the Philadelphia-born Lopes was driving her sister, brother and five other people outside the town of Jutiapa, 150 miles north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, late Thursday afternoon when the accident occurred, said Rob Goldstone, spokesman for Diggit Entertainment, TLC’s management company.
Some of the largest manufacturers of heavy trucks and engines in the country have agreed to accept a California plan to ban sales of new diesel big rigs by 2036 under a deal aimed in part at thwarting potential litigation and maintaining a single national standard for truck pollution rules.
The deal averts a costly court battle with the biggest industry players and eases the transition to clean electric commercial trucks in California, the largest market in the country, and potentially other states.
My wife is Jewish, and I was raised Catholic. When we married, we agreed to raise our children in the Jewish tradition, with all the holidays, rituals and so forth. And because I still have a sentimental, though passive, connection to Catholicism, we also agreed to a tree at Christmas. But we never discussed Santa Claus until our daughter was born.
I love Santa Claus. I’ve played the jolly old chap at family events and elsewhere.
Again, although yogurt is not toxic, your dog might have trouble digesting it. Dogs’ bodies are not designed to digest lactose after puppyhood, and, therefore, a food high in lactose can cause gas, diarrhea, and vomiting. Always make sure the yogurt contains no xylitol, an artificial sweetener, which is toxic to dogs.Click to see full answer. Considering this, is it safe for dogs to eat cherries?The flesh of a cherry is safe for dogs to eat.