Month: August 2020

Things feel different for one Baltimore-area Muslim woman lately when she shops at her local Trader Joe’s. A Muslim woman who observes niqab—a face veil that masks her nose and mouth—she has noticed fewer people giving her looks, probably because they’re covering their own faces too. “There’s less staring and hateful comments,” she said. “Before,
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Cincinnati Reds television broadcaster Thom Brennaman. (Joe Robbins/Getty Images) Fox Sports announcer Thom Brennaman has issued a second apology for using a homophobic slur on air, having been educated on the history of “hate and prejudice” the word is rooted in. Brennaman, who has been commentating on Major League Baseball games for over 30 years,
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Sabrina Parr explained how ‘a lot of things changed’ in the wake of Kobe Bryant’s tragic death, including their vow to hold off on sex until marriage, in an EXCLUSIVE interview. Life is unpredictable, a sometimes sad truth the world was reminded of after NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, died
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Announced at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, Marvel is bringing Blade back to the big screen in the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali taking over the title role. We haven’t heard much of anything about the future project outside of that initial announcement, with no writer(s) or director(s) attached
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Donald Trump has spent months now mounting a brazen assault on the integrity of the November election, sowing doubt in the democratic process with unfounded claims of fraud and scheming to keep turnout low—including, it seems, by hamstringing the United States Postal Service via his handpicked postmaster general, megadonor Louis DeJoy. Now, he’s raising fears
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As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy appears before Congress, Americans are up in arms about the havoc he has unleashed upon the nation’s mail system. Earlier this week, DeJoy pledged to halt his planned changes to the U.S. Post Office so as to avoid any negative impact on the delivery of mail-in ballots for November’s election,
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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia on August 21, 2020. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty) Despite claiming that it is a “great honour” to be the “most pro-gay” president in history, Donald Trump has erased LGBT+ people from
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You might say God is feeling the ‘Noize’ now … Quiet Riot’s drummer, Frankie Banali, has died following his battle with pancreatic cancer. Frankie died Thursday night in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones, according to his wife, Regina, who said he lost his 16-month battle with cancer. Frankie’s wife says chemotherapy stopped working and
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How do parents keep education informative and enjoyable during COVID-19? With an increased need for distance learning and homeschooling, parents are feeling anxious and burned out, and the school year hasn’t even started yet. Thankfully, one solution is using the fantastic surge of educational content for kids recently published online. There is Dolly Parton’s Imagination
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WARNING: This story contains artwork that some may find disturbing. Discretion is advised. Netflix has apologized for the feature artwork on Cuties, a French-language film about pre-teen dancers, after a flurry of accusations that the young girls were being “sexualized” in its marketing. The original artwork showed the girls dressed in cheerleader outfits while posing provocatively
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Randy Rainbow celebrates the release of his Christmas CD “Hey Gurl, It’s Christmas” at Sardi’son November 11, 2019 in New York City. (Glikas/Getty) Randy Rainbow has apologised for his past transphobic and racist tweets, insisting that “there is not a racist or intolerant bone” in his body. The gay comedian is known for his song
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Luna have covered Television’s classic “Marquee Moon.” The cover features Luna’s founding bassist Justin Harwood, who departed the band in 2000. The new cover was made remotely: Dean Wareham sang and played guitar from Los Angeles; Lee Wall drummed in Austin, Texas; Sean Eden played guitar in San Francisco; and Harwood recorded the bass in
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After pulling in $33.5M across five days of previews at the Chinese box office, local war epic The Eight Hundred overwhelmingly stormed theaters today, its first official day of release. Adding roughly $20M across the country on Friday — the biggest single-day box office since cinemas resumed operations — the Middle Kingdom cume is now
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