Darnella Frazier, Teen Who Filmed George Floyd Murder, Honored With Pulitzer Citation

New York Mets‘ Citi Field Stadium for $250 — and it comes with VIP suite-views to two games, the opportunity to throw an opening pitch, Mets swag and unlimited snacks.The lucky Mets’ fan, who can bring three friends to their Queens, N.Y. sleepover, will throw the ceremonial first pitch for the July 28 night game.

A new series about the American AIDS epidemic and ACT UP New York (from 1987-1993) is coming to the small screen. Deadline reports that British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (“Weekend,” “Looking“) will showrun “Let The Record Show,” based on a new novel that covers New York activism surrounding the AIDS crisis.

EXCLUSIVE: Let The Record Show, written by Sarah Schulman, has been called the most comprehensive political history of American AIDS activism and ACT Up.

Start spreadin’ the news: The nominations are in for the 64th annual New York Emmy Awards.

NEW YORK -- The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and dark and incisive worldview.Williams is this year's recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo among others.“Her work reveals the strange and unsettling grace just beneath the surface of our lives.

Britney Spears has been under conservatorship since the past 13 years and ahead of her next court hearing, New York Times released a report stating the singer's views on her conservatorship that were made in old court documents. According to confidential court records reviewed by the newspaper, the singer had spoken out against her father Jamie and her conservatorship's guidelines back in 2016.

It has been a while since we heard any new music from Selena Gomez, but that's because the singer has been working on a new show titled Only Murders In The Building. The upcoming series was being shot in New York and Selena has been snapped on several occasions on set.

Hollywood is giving back to Los Angeles public schools.

Jean Smart is looking back at having her husband, Richard Gilliland, die while filming season one of “Hacks”.

The streets are crowded these days!

When Jon M. Chu stepped outside to film “In the Heights” on the streets of Washington Heights, New York, he found another certain movie filming on the same streets: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” happened to film at the same time, in the summer of 2019, and at the same place as “In the Heights.” “We were right there in each other’s back some days,” Chu told TheWrap.

NEW YORK -- The Latest on the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes:NEW YORK — One of the country’s most esteemed novelists, Louise Erdrich, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Night Watchman.” Other winners for books include the late Les Payne and daughter Tamara Payne for their Malcolm X biography “The Dead Are Arising.”Marcia Chatelain’s “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” won for history.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorPlaywright Katori Hall has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her comedy “The Hot Wing King.” The organization behind journalism’s most prestigious honor also bestowed a special citation on Darnella Frazier, the teenager who videotaped George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020.Hall is also a showrunner and executive producer of the Starz drama “P-Valley.” “Hot Wing King” opened Feb.

NEW YORK -- The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts will be announced Friday, recognizing the best work in a year in which people isolated themselves because of a deadly pandemic and took to the streets over racial injustice.There have been few years in journalism like 2020, when nearly everything that happened was touched by COVID-19.The announcement of the prizes itself was originally scheduled for April 19 but the Pulitzer Prize Board postponed it until June to give its 18 members a