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Last Thursday, the world-renowned country group formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced that they had officially changed their name to Lady A after being “awakened” to the unfortunate historical “associations” with the word “antebellum” in wake of the Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd. “We are regretful and embarrassed to
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Eva Marcille is leaving ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta,’ she confirmed on June 16. She’s hoping to do bigger and better things for her ‘culture and community,’ and here’s why. Read her full statement. Eva Marcille won’t return to Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta for season 13. The model announced her exit — after three seasons
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Lots of what the new Australian drama Babyteeth (available for digital rental on June 19) depicts—illness, risky first love, drug dependency—is stuff we’ve seen on film many times before. What makes this dreamy-sad film fresh and exciting is the perspective brought to familiar material by first-time feature director Shannon Murphy, making an auspicious big-screen debut
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he supports any franchise that will hire quarterback Colin Kaepernick, after he’s gone three seasons unsigned following his ‘taking a knee’ racial injustice protests. Even though no NFL team has gone near signing quarterback Colin Kaepernick after 2016’s season, the league’s commissioner is encouraging a franchise to take a chance
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TikTok fans raved over ‘national treasure’ Judi Dench and her 23-year-old grandson, Sam Williams. He has an uncanny resemblance to a certain red-haired pop star! Judi Dench, 85, danced as Old Deuteronomy on Cats, and she’s now bopping to the viral “Laxed (Siren Beat)” song on TikTok. The legendary theater performer and actress proved that her
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Jazzy Collins, a former casting producer for ‘The Bachelor’, criticized the show for only casting ‘ethnically ambiguous’ and ‘not too black’ cast members, shortly after the first black ‘bachelor’ Matt James was announced. The Bachelor just announced its first ever African American male lead Matt James on June 12 but that didn’t stop former casting
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Scumdogs rejoice: Gwar, the American heavy metal band (commonly stylized as GWAR), has backed a fan-launched campaign to replace the controversial Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Va., with a statue of Oderus Ungerus — a deceased member of the band. That’s right. Rather than honouring a “failed” 19th-century U.S. confederate general, one “GWAR scumdog” launched
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