John Oliver and Dave Chappelle used their collective social media influence for good Sunday night by making the hashtag “#DCPublicSchools” go viral at the 2017 Emmys. The movement began when Chappelle first took the stage with Melissa McCarthy to present the award for Best Director for a Comedy Series. The …
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There’s a moment in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new PBS miniseries, The Vietnam War, in which a Vietnamese woman – what they call a “hero mother” – talks about losing eight brothers and two sons to ground combat and bombings. It’s the sort of devastating testimonial about the personal …
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AMC is set to develop a new drama series based on Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery’s bestselling nonfiction book about the Black Lives Matter movement,They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, Deadline.com reports. The book, published in 2016 by Little, Brown & …
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Reese Witherspoon can still do anything – check out HBO’s Big Little Lies, where she does double duty as an actress and an executive producer, showing how life looks from a complex woman’s point of view. Sadly, that particular skill set fails to find its way into Home Again, a …
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