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A day after apologizing for blackface videos, Shane Dawson was under fire for a resurfaced clip where he sexualized then 11-year-old Willow Smith. Learn more about the famed YouTube star. Famed YouTuber Shane Dawson has been trending non-stop on social media following his past controversial videos, which Jada Pinkett Smith and her son Jaden Smith
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Subramanian Swamy, the leader of India’s ruling party BJP, has declared that homosexuality is “a genetic flaw like having six fingers”. Swamy first made the comments in 2016 but retweeted them on Friday (June 26) as the country celebrated the historic repeal of Section 377, a regressive colonial-era law that criminalised homosexual sex. The senior
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Milton Glaser, an essential visual architect of the second half of the 20th century, died on Friday, his 91st birthday. His striking poster of Bob Dylan, which was included as an insert in the 1967 Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits album, was a quickly disseminated primer on pop art. Glaser later told Smithsonian Magazine that his
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Just a day after his apology, an inappropriate video of Shane Dawson singing Willow Smith’s ‘Whip My Hair’ resurfaced. Jada Pinkett Smith tweeted that she was ‘done with the excuses.’ Shane Dawson, 31, is under fire again. The YouTube star began trending on Twitter on Saturday, June 27 — just a day after his massive
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Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco’s death sparked outcry for typifying the failures of the criminal justice system for trans women of colour. (Facebook/Polanco family attorney) A total of 17 corrections officers are to be disciplined for their conduct regarding Layleen Polanco, a trans woman of colour who died in solitary confinement in Rikers Island jail. Layleen Xtravaganza
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James Blake is performing a set on Instagram Live today (June 27). Tune in via his official account. During his improvisational piano concert, viewers will have the option to donate to Rachel Cargle’s Loveland Foundation, which provides opportunity, access, and therapy for Black women and girls. James Blake’s most recent studio album Assume Form came
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, having acted like concerns about the coronavirus were all political, is now having to walk back his claims as the public health crisis rages on in his home state. DeSantis, a close Trump ally, declared victory over the virus in May while standing beside Vice President Mike Pence, crowing about Florida’s
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‘RHOC’ star Tamra Judge has responded to a ‘hater’ after she posted about her support for the LGBTQ+ community on Instagram. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum Tamra Judge, 52, is showing her support for the LGBTQ+ community — but not everyone believes she’s being genuine. The reality star took to Instagram on June 27 to
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We’re halfway through what’s been the strangest year in recent memory. What was once a promising slate of upcoming 2020 horror releases instead became an empty void thanks to pandemic-induced theatrical closures. In an alternate universe, we would’ve seen A Quiet Place Part II, Saint Maud, Antlers, Antebellum, Spiral, and Candyman and had our sights set on the enticing genre
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Pop sensation Ariana Grande took to her Instagram to share pictures and all-lowercase commentary from her 27th birthday party. In the posts, she divulged that the event was modeled after last summer’s flower-forward film Midsommar. “my friends and i went with a midsommar theme because help me,” she wrote Saturday. Previously, the Florida-born “break up
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International advocacy organization Global Citizen and the European Commission are partnering to present Global Goal: Unite for Our Future — the Concert, a globally televised and digitally streamed special airing on Saturday, June 27. It seeks to highlight the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has on marginalized communities, including people of colour, those living in extreme poverty
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James Wallace Birch is an author, occasional commentator, and full-time over-analyzer from Northern Virginia, just outside the U.S. capital. His writing has been described as smart, elegant, insightful and poetically bittersweet. James received notoriety for his debut novel, Discontents: The Disappearance of a Young Radical. His long-anticipated follow-up novel, If You Find Emory Walden, is now
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