MAJOR CONGRATS ARE IN ORDER FOR LAKEITH STANFIELD!
He is one actor who knows how to not let one role define him. For many, the first time they saw Lakeith Stanfield act was in the Jordan Peele critically acclaimed film “Get Out” and for others, they know him for his role as Darius in the FX network show “Atlanta”. Now they can get ready to see Lakeith star as Colin Warner, a man wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn’t commit, which is based on a true story.
Major congrats are in order for Lakeith Stanfield!
He is one actor who knows how to not let one role define him. For many, the first time they saw Lakeith Stanfield act was in the Jordan Peele critically acclaimed film “Get Out” and for others, they know him for his role as Darius in the FX network show “Atlanta”. Now they can get ready to see Lakeith star as Colin Warner, a man wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn’t commit, which is based on a true story.
“Crown Heights” still starring actor Lakeith Stanfield
via Deadline.com
Based on a podcast titled This American Life, the pic is set spring of 1980, where a teenager is gunned down in the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The police pressure a child witness to identify a suspect. As a result, Colin Warner, an 18-year-old kid from nearby Crown Heights, is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Colin’s childhood friend Carl ‘KC’ King devotes his life to fighting for Colin’s freedom. He works on appeals, takes loans for lawyer fees and becomes a legal courier to learn the court system.
Many will read this and think this film comes on the heels of the many racial injustices we’ve face in the last few years but the story of Colin Warner is in fact true. Warner’s conviction was overturned in 201 with the help of his friend Carl King (who will be portrayed by former NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha). The Ringer poses a very intricate question in the write-up of the film’s trailer; The more compelling question is whether writer-director Matt Ruskin can illustrate the immense human cost of discriminatory practices thoughtlessly signed into law.
I decided to do my own research on the background of this case and I can honestly say that I will be going to see this film. What about you loves? Check out the trailer below and sound off below because we’re long overdue for #OpinionHour.
This year’s election will definitely be one for the books. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has more African-American women working than any other presidential campaign in history – and yes that includes both of Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012. The 38 women are stationed at her headquarters in downtown Brooklyn and their roles spread across the campaign in its entirety — as designers, accountants, senior policy advisers….the list goes on. Salute my sisters!
via NY MAG:
A conductor on this train is senior policy adviser Maya Harris, sister to California senate hopeful Kamala Harris and a political Goliath in her own right. She arrived at the campaign in April, fresh off a brief stint at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress, where she prophetically wrote about the importance of women of color in future elections. The Stanford-trained lawyer and former university dean helps shape the policies Clinton relays in stump speeches and debates.
When asked about the policies that would affect black women the most, Harris points to three main issues: the gender pay gap, support for small businesses, and criminal-justice reform. “When you talk about these things, they impact women of color in tremendous ways,” says Harris. “For example, an average women makes 80 cents on the dollar compared to white men. For African-American women it’s 63 cents on the dollar and for Latinas it’s 54 cents on the dollar. When you talk about ensuring equal pay for women, that will have a distinct and dramatic impact for women of color, for whom the wage gap is widest.”
Harris notes that African-American women make up the fastest growing sector within female entrepreneurship, and that the capital Clinton intends to make available if she were elected would help launch and grow their businesses. It’s a policy that will benefit everyone, but African-American women overwhelmingly so. And it’s reminiscent of when Obama privately rebuffed the notion that he didn’t support enough African-American-driven measures: “If I go out there saying ‘black, black, black,’ do you think that will help black people?” he remarked to several black leaders in 2011.
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the black community — perceived as ambivalent at best and pernicious at worst — has snarled the narrative of her political stance for much of the current campaign. In 1994, she ardently supported her husband’s intensely punitive crime bill, which disproportionately affected African-Americans, and echoes of that era reverberated during the tense primary season. She’s also been haunted by a 1996 speech where she engaged in the duplicitous game of dog-whistle politics. Latching on to coded language to describe black youth, she said: “They are often the kinds of kids that are called “super predators”, no conscious, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.” No wonder some questioned her commitment to black America.
Who could have guessed that the man once dubbed “the first black president” would find himself in a such a racialized quandary? Yet there Bill was, so he apologized for the crime bill in an address to the NAACP in July 2015 — and because our society dictates that wives ought to accept equal blame for their husband’s actions, Hillary apologized as well during a primary debate.
But the seed had been planted. Though Hillary is wildly popular among older black voters, millennials are finding her a tough pill to swallow. By the end of May, she had amassed a lead over Bernie Sanders that ranged from 85 to 89 percent among black voters 45 and older, but lost the 29 and under vote to Bernie Sanders. When it became clear she would become the party nominee, the Twitter generation vocalized their reluctance in hitching their support to her campaign with the hashtag #GirlIGuessImWithHer.
“Millennials don’t necessarily remember the Clinton administration in the ’90s in the way that you remember how much they attacked Hillary Clinton then,” notes Zerlina Maxwell, Hillary’s director of progressive media. “You know how we always talk about the concept of receipts? She has them — real, tangible working results that she’s worked toward to get for our community.”
Like Harris, Maxwell went to law school before immersing herself in the rippled pool of politics. She was a field organizer during Obama’s 2008 campaign and was elevated to social-media celebrity during the 2012 election when her informed political tweets took flight. In the off-season, she grew her profile by functioning as a political analyst on cable news and a contributor to publications like the Washington Post, Essence, and Feministing.
Maxwell’s well-documented advocacy against sexual assault is both potent and prescient. During a 2013 appearance on Fox’s Hannity, she presented the audacious suggestion that men ought to be taught not to rape as a practical tool in preventing sexual assault. Hannity was incredulous. His suggestion: Arm women with guns — never mind, as Maxwell pointed out, that most sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim already knows.
Maxwell’s role in the Clinton campaign places her firmly in her old stomping grounds. She relays key campaign messaging to “influencers,” as she calls them, such as popular feminists on social media, and she also pitches progressive media outlets for coverage. “Being a black woman in this campaign, it’s a lot, especially given what’s going on all in the news with black people, and especially when you’re running against Donald Trump, which can sometimes be emotionally exhausting. But that just makes the work here more important.”
In one word, today’s #CelebrityCrush is DOPE! From his captivating smile, to his milk chocolate skin complexion, its not hard to see why we’re infatuated with the actor Shameik Moore.
In one word, today’s #CelebrityCrush is DOPE! From his captivating smile, to his milk chocolate skin complexion, its not hard to see why we’re infatuated with the actor Shameik Moore.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Shameik’s start in the Entertainment industry was filled with him filling minor roles in major television shows and films such as ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’, BET’s ‘Reed Between the Lines’ which starred Tracee Ellis Ross and Malcolm Jamal Warner and ‘Joyful Noise’ which starred Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton and Keke Palmer. However, the role many of us are familiar with is Shameik’s portrayal of Malcolm Adekanbi in the 2015 crime dramady (drama/comedy) film ‘Dope’ by Rick Famuyiwa (who wrote and directed cult classic Black films “The Wood” and “Brown Sugar”). Dope had a star-filled cast including Rick Fox, Zoe Kravitz, Kiersey Clemmons, Chanel Iman, ASAP Rocky, and Quincy Brown.
In today’s day and age, the youth live in a time where materialism reigns supreme and if you’ve got the latest Jordans or iPhone, you’re “the man” and if you don’t, well you’re kind of a nobody. The new film “Kicks” is the perfect coming of age story as it tackles these issues and rides the line of materialism and what makes a man.
In today’s day and age, the youth live in a time where materialism reigns supreme and if you’ve got the latest Jordans or iPhone, you’re “the man” and if you don’t, well you’re kind of a nobody. The new film “Kicks” is the perfect coming of age story as it tackles these issues and rides the line of materialism and what makes a man.
“Kicks” tells the story of fifteen-year-old Brandon who longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy, assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the girls his own age and picked on and taunted by everyone – even his so-called best friends. Working hard to get them, he soon finds that the titular shoes have instead made him a target after they are promptly snatched by Flaco, a local hood. Brandon goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen sneakers. What follows is a powerful exploration of the cultural importance of sneakers, how aggression and masculine pride often go hand in hand, and the endless cycle of violence in the inner city.
Is it bad that the hopeless romantic in me wants to see Jennifer Lawrence fall in love while in space? I mean, let’s be clear, she is hands down one of the hottest women to grace Tinsel Town and with Hollywood hunk Chris Pratt as her leading man, I can picture them having cute little space babies and all. A girl can dream right?
Is it bad that the hopeless romantic in me wants to see Jennifer Lawrence fall in love while in space? I mean, let’s be clear, she is hands down one of the hottest women to grace Tinsel Town and with Hollywood hunk Chris Pratt as her leading man, I can picture them having cute little space babies and all. A girl can dream right?
Well it’s not all entirely a dream but the two young stars are set to star side by side in a science fiction love story this coming Christmas from Sony Pictures.
A round of applause and a huge congratulations goes out to Hollywood hunk Larenz Tate who has just been snagged to star in a brand new dark indie comedy called “Business Ethics” with Nick Wernham at the helm as director. The pic is based on Wernham’s short film of the same name about a man who sets out to run a Ponzi scheme. The production is slated for an October shooting starting in Toronto.
A round of applause and a huge congratulations goes out to Hollywood hunk Larenz Tate who has just been snagged to star in a brand new dark indie comedy called “Business Ethics” with Nick Wernham at the helm as director. The pic is based on Wernham’s short film of the same name about a man who sets out to run a Ponzi scheme. The production is slated for an October shooting starting in Toronto.
Larenz Tate will play Zachery Cranston, an ambitious and unethical financial tycoon who will stop at nothing to climb the ladder of success. Richard Wernham penned the script. Know Rules’ Sanzhar Sultan will produce, with Tate, Richard Wernham, Loudon Owen, Jai Khanna and LaRon Tate set as executive producers.
We are so excited for Larenz Tate’s latest role! No only is he working on this project but he is also shooting Universal’s comedy Girls Trip which will also star veteran actresses Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett-Smith. (I’m already anxious! I don’t think I’ve seen these two ladies in a film together since “Set it Off”!) Earlier this year, the drama series “Game of Silence” that Larenz also starred in was cancelled so it’s good to see he is not being stagnant. He’s booked!
Larenz Tate is one of those actors who continously brings something new and fresh to the table. While for many of us, he will always be O-Dog from “Menace II Society” or Darius Lovehall from the classic “Love Jones”, you can always count on an amazing performance from this man.
Join the conversation below and let us know if you’re ready to see Larenz’s new projects.
‘Girl Trip’ will be directed by ‘The Best Man’ film series director Malcolm D. Lee and produced by ‘Think Like a Man’ creator Will Packer! Joining Larenz Tate on the project will also be actor Mike Colter. Are you ready to swoon ladies?!
We all have this little list of standards and qualities of what it is we want in a mate and ideally, that’s what makes up our “type”. For some women, it can be a man who’s tall, dark and muscular and for some guys, it can be a woman with fire engine red hair, a nice set of breasts and a J.Lo booty to round it all out. And that’s good. By all means, you have a right to like whatever it is that you like but have you ever thought that after several bad dates and three failed relationships maybe your type is just a bit… wrong? Don’t trip, we all do. We get so wrapped up in finding someone who fits the bill that we treat the dating process more like an auction instead of the interview of a lifetime. Opposites truly do attract and today, I’m going to tell you why it’s okay to date someone who is not your type.
We all have this little list of standards and qualities of what it is we want in a mate and ideally, that’s what makes up our “type”. For some women, it can be a man who’s tall, dark and muscular and for some guys, it can be a woman with fire engine red hair, a nice set of breasts and a J.Lo booty to round it all out. And that’s good. By all means, you have a right to like whatever it is that you like but have you ever thought that after several bad dates and three failed relationships maybe your type is just a bit… wrong? Don’t trip, we all do. We get so wrapped up in finding someone who fits the bill that we treat the dating process more like an auction instead of the interview of a lifetime. Opposites truly do attract and today, I’m going to tell you why it’s okay to date someone who is not your type.
After a while of dating only people who fit your ‘type’ criteria, the dating game gets eerily familiar. You wind up being attracted to some of the same television shows, musics, foods and things of that nature but dating someone who’s not your type means you can broaden your outlook on a host of different things. Dating someone who doesn’t fit the bill means you will get to learn brand new cultures, hobbies, and will probably discover a whole new approach to life, too! That thai place you wanted to go to dinner at but couldn’t because your ex was really into Italian food, just so happens to be your new interests favorite spot!
Actress Taraji P. Henson is the latest celebrity to team up with MAC for something spectacular.
A press release from MAC announcing the partnership beamed while explaining why Taraji P. Henson was the perfect choice for the venture:
“Taraji P. Henson has won the world over with her fearless performances, powerhouse confidence and charismatic spark. We’re thrilled to announce she is joining forces with MAC for an upcoming collaboration,”
The collection is set to launch sometime next month and it will include a total of six new products. An obvious highlight is a lip shade called ‘Strip Me Down,’ which is described as a ‘deep tone beige’ and has a matte finish. It’ll retail for $17. The collection will include a black eyeliner, mascara, two shades of MAC’s signature Mineralize Skinfinish highlighter, a face brush and pressed powders for highlighting and contouring!
Follow the jump to check out some pieces from Taraji’s upcoming collection.
If all goes well, this could be a definite game changer for veteran actor Robert Downey Jr.
Plot details have not been released yet, but insiders say the project is based on Robert Downey Jr.’s “Perry Mason” reboot, which he has been developing as a feature film at Warner Bros. for several years. Nic Pizzolatto, Joe Horacek, Robert Downey Jr., and his producing partner and wife, Susan Downey, of Team Downey will serve as exec producers on the project
If all goes well, this could be a definite game changer for veteran actor Robert Downey Jr.
Plot details have not been released yet, but insiders say the project is based on Robert Downey Jr.’s “Perry Mason” reboot, which he has been developing as a feature film at Warner Bros. for several years. Nic Pizzolatto, Joe Horacek, Robert Downey Jr., and his producing partner and wife, Susan Downey, of Team Downey will serve as exec producers on the project
So far it has been said that the project will be a series, rather than a TV film, and that the project has been making its rounds over at HBO since as early as May of this year. This project would mark Downey Jr.’s first starring role on television, aside from his “Ally McBeal” appearances in the early 2000’s, before he stepped back into the life of cinema to become a box-office superstar.
Come through Steve Harvey, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Strahan – three of the hottest names in Game Show hosting who have all scored the cover of TV Guide’s “Game Show Fever” special edition.
Come through Steve Harvey, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Strahan – three of the hottest names in Game Show hosting who have all scored the cover of TV Guide’s “Game Show Fever” special edition.
The June 27 special issue, is set to hit stands this Thursday, June 23, and will tackles the iconic format and asks the three popular personalities to spill the beans about their latest hosting gigs, all a part of ABC’s new prime time lineup.
Steve Harvey reveals how he approaches Celebrity Family Feud a bit differently than the traditional version of Family Feud:
“You’ve got to be careful because you’re dealing with some pretty big egos when talking to celebrities. Celebrities really have a problem coming across as normal people, especially when they get something wrong. A lot of the questions on Family Feud are such regular-person questions, and a lot of celebrities are so out of touch. They’ve got people who do their hair and go grocery shopping for them, so they don’t know how much a damn gallon of milk is!”
Alec Baldwin said he only called a few of his friends to join the panel for Match Game.
“I’m careful not to call too many people who would think it would be a waste of time. We reached out to the 30 Rock cast for obvious reasons, but you know the ones who would do it and the ones who won’t.”
And as Michael Strahan prepares to take the helm of $100,000 Pyramid, originally hosted by TV legend host Dick Clark, he reflects on stepping into the shoes of another TV legend, Regis Philbin:
“Thank goodness I didn’t kill the show that Regis built!”
Each of these guys is sure to bring something new and exciting to these new game shows and I can’t wait to see how they make them their own. Which host are you amped to see?
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