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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, 'Lovely One,' at Apollo Theater
4 months ago

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, 'Lovely One,' at Apollo Theater

The Independent  

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Bystanders Stop Woman Pouring Gas On Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birth Home: Cops
1 year, 1 month ago

Bystanders Stop Woman Pouring Gas On Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birth Home: Cops

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A woman attempted to burn down the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on Thursday but was stopped by several bystanders after pouring gasoline on the historic property, police said. BREAKING UPDATE: Woman charged with pouring gasoline, trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta birth home, according to police. Here's what …

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Monkey Fearlessly Plays With King Cobra But The Internet Is Scared
1 year, 2 months ago

Monkey Fearlessly Plays With King Cobra But The Internet Is Scared

News 18  

The animal kingdom never ceases to amaze with its unusual friendships, and challenging ideas about who’s friends and who’s foes and the internet is a treasure trove of all those funny and amazing twists that often leave people in splits or captivated. Recently, one such video has taken social media by storm, showing a surprising interaction between a monkey and …

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Lashana Lynch finally lets it be known — she can sing (and fight)
2 years ago

Lashana Lynch finally lets it be known — she can sing (and fight)

LA Times  

“Miss Honey is from the inside out meek, low confidence, low self-esteem. It makes sense that Lashana Lynch felt like perfect casting to play Izogie, the machete-wielding bodyguard in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic “The Woman King.” Lynch’s filmography, after all, was already filled with physically demanding roles, from a pro fighter pilot in “Captain Marvel” to a gravity-defying superspy in …

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How the ‘Woman King’ crew found a safe space to be heard
2 years ago

How the ‘Woman King’ crew found a safe space to be heard

LA Times  

Gina Prince-Bythewood, with actor Viola Davis at left, hired largely female department heads to work on “The Woman King,” a film primarily starring women. “The Woman King,” a historical epic about a West African unit of warriors in 1823, may feel revolutionary to audiences today — but there are still wars being waged by women and people of color today …

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Viola Davis leads the way in a different kind of battle
2 years, 1 month ago

Viola Davis leads the way in a different kind of battle

LA Times  

Oscar, Emmy and two-time Tony winner Viola Davis, 57, constantly breaks ground, whether getting uncharacteristically physical as a warrior leader in “The Woman King” or making awards history. 5 A lead actress Oscar nomination for “Woman King” would be Davis’ third, after “The Help” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and fifth overall, after a supporting nomination for “Doubt” and win …

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‘Woman King,’ Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Woman King,’ Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle

Associated Press  

TORONTO — When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make “The Woman King,” but of a lifelong battle. “White people have to love ‘The Woman King’ for …

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The Woman King review: 'A spectacular, action-filled epic'
2 years, 3 months ago

The Woman King review: 'A spectacular, action-filled epic'

BBC  

The Woman King review: 'A spectacular, action-filled epic' TIFF The Woman King Viola Davis, John Boyega and Lashana Lynch lead The Woman King's impressive cast, but the film's real star is its director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, who doesn't make a wrong move, writes Caryn James. At the start of The Woman King, Viola Davis lets out a war whoop that sends …

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Queen Elizabeth accepted limitations, dedicated her life to being the Queen
2 years, 4 months ago

Queen Elizabeth accepted limitations, dedicated her life to being the Queen

Hindustan Times  

Queen Elizabeth II’s death marks the end of an era not just for the people of Great Britain but also for the people of the Commonwealth and indeed the whole world bearing in mind the standards she stood for and the values she upheld. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent …

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Fall Preview: Is it, maybe, back to normal at the movies?
2 years, 4 months ago

Fall Preview: Is it, maybe, back to normal at the movies?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago. Among the most anticipated films hitting the …

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News updates from Hindustan Times: 1 dead, 5 injured in Bandra building collapse and all the latest news
3 years, 7 months ago

News updates from Hindustan Times: 1 dead, 5 injured in Bandra building collapse and all the latest news

Hindustan Times  

Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion. 1 dead, 5 injured in Bandra building collapse after midnight One person died and five others were injured as a portion of a four storey structure fell on a house in Bandra’s Kherwadi area in Maharashtra’s Mumbai Suburban district at around 1.45 am on Monday, according to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ’s disaster …

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Girish Karnad and the women who defied norms
4 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad and the women who defied norms

Live Mint  

Girish Karnad’s death on 10 June last year has left an enormous void not simply in theatre and film but also in the liberal politics of our nation that was so often animated by his commanding and outspoken views. In the plays which drew from minor stories in the epics, Karnad presents us with the even more radical possibility of …

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