Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled. By Frances Madeson, for Capital and Main The protests and student walkouts have stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a Black history class and Black literature class, saying the curriculum contained elements of critical race theory. As...
After a contentious redrawing of Alabama’s congressional map, two candidates will compete in November for a seat, and perhaps congressional controlShomari Figures, an attorney and Obama White House executive from a politically-prominent civil rights family, has won the Democratic nomination to run in Alabama’s redrawn second congressional district Tuesday night, defeating state representative Anthony Daniels.The runoff election has been closely watched because of its implications for control of...
The cast and crew recall the canceled-way-too-soon Emmy-nominated sitcom
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Donald Bogle’s “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks” is considered the standard text on Black characters in American movies. But when the book was first published, in 1973, it was just about the only text on the subject. This might be hard to imagine today, when books about the intersection of race and cinema flow forth on a regular basis (among the strongest in recent years are Will Haygood’s “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World” and Robin R. Means Coleman’s...
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Scenes including an attack by a real bear and a kitten "falling" off a cliff have concerned viewers and animal rights groups since the film's release.
While filming the epic movie, 80 people – including James Cameron and Bill Paxton – were hospitalised after their food was spiked with PCP. Who was behind the psychedelic clam chowder?Name: The Titanic drug poisoning.Age: 28. Continue reading
https://instagram.com/p/C5g0iJ4uvI0 An oral history of ‘Strangers With Candy,’ the comedy that changed TV’s rulebook. Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello sat down with @MeredithBlake: https://t.co/8jGK79zZMB pic.twitter.com/1Dsp0eTESF— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 9, 2024 Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello talked about their series Strangers With Candy turning 25 years old, having premiered on April 9, 1999.The trio wrote all the scripts together. Colbert revealed...
When Amy Sedaris makes appearances around the country, she finds it easy to identify the “Strangers With Candy” fans in the audience. “They’re ugly,” she says with a cackle. “They’re misfits and outcasts.” Stephen Colbert tells a similar story. “If you're walking on the street and you see somebody wearing a trash bag and talking to themselves with shaved eyebrows, you know that's probably a ‘Strangers With Candy’ viewer,” says “The Late Show” host. “And you're often right about it.” Twenty-five...