Month: July 2020

Prior to Donald Trump’s 1 a.m. Twitter rant last month raging against the “group of RINO Republican…loser types” at the “so-called Lincoln Project,” Ben Howe, a video editor and one of the top creative minds behind the super PAC’s notorious anti-Trump ads, had avoided associating himself with the group. “I didn’t publicly acknowledge my involvement
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LGBT+ South Africans wave Pride flags at Durban Pride Festival. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images) Lawmakers in the upper house of South Africa’s parliament passed a bill Wednesday (July 1) that bars marriage officers from objecting to marrying same-sex couples. South Africa remains an outlier in the patchwork of policies and laws in Africa wired to erase
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Ethereal, tormented, and tough as nails, Lena Horne—who would have turned 103 this week—would evolve from angelic Cotton Club ingenue into a civil rights icon and one of the most dynamic, fiery performers of her generation. In Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne, published in 2009, James Gavin recounts the star’s turbulent life—from her
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Co-written by the late George A. Romero, who passed away before completing the novel, and finished by Daniel Kraus, this year’s The Living Dead presents a brand new 656-page zombie epic that brings the long-running “living dead” saga off the screen and into the world of print. It’s releasing August 4, and we’ve learned that
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Nine women who accused convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct and filed a class-action lawsuit against him and the Weinstein Company have agreed to an $18.875 million settlement with the former Hollywood mogul. The settlement, which was announced Tuesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Chicago attorney Elizabeth A. Fegan and still
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Raymond McGuire has been a Wall Street investment banker for nearly 36 years. Currently, he is a vice chairman at Citigroup, the Wall Street behemoth, and the chairman of the firm’s banking, capital markets, and advisory businesses. For 13 years, he ran Citigroup’s corporate and investment banking division. Prior to Citigroup, McGuire worked at Merrill
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