Eva Marcille’s Husband Joining Peaceful Protesters, Says He'll "Lend My Voice for Real Legislative Change"

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterIn response to Joel Schumacher’s death on Monday, Matthew McConaughey says his career wouldn’t have taken off if the late director hadn’t cast him as the lead in the 1996 film “A Time to Kill.”McConaughey was relatively unknown before starring as Jake Brigance in the courtroom crime drama.

On Juneteenth, Michelle Obama took a moment to reflect and tell her Twitter followers what the holiday means to her. The former first lady, 56, went over the history of the historic holiday, which commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that slaves in Galveston, Texas, found out they were freed — two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Today, June 19th, marks the holiday Juneteenth — celebrating the end of slavery in America. Across the world, citizens are joining in celebrations and protests to honor the day that Texas finally freed its slaves two years after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Photos from New York and more major cities around the world are finding unique, meaningful ways to mark the occasion and the progress that’s to come.

As part of Bandcamp’s day of fundraising for charities that seek to tackle racial prejudice and injustice, Björk has made her entire catalogue available on the direct-to-fan platform. She and her label One Little Independent will donate all income generated by sales of the records today to Black Lives Matter UK.Marking Juneteenth – which commemorates the anniversary of slaves in Texas being freed in 1865 – Bandcamp itself will today donate 100% of its income to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Taylor Swift has joined calls for Juneteenth, the date which marks the official end of slavery in the US, to be made a national holiday.

Mirror, the current packaging features the fictional character "Uncle Ben" - whose name was first used in 1946 - as a reference to an African American rice farmer from Texas.

that he's making Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — an official holiday in a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy.Juneteenth, which is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, is celebrated annually on June 19.

It’s a match made in reality singing show heaven: American Idol season seven winner Craig Wayne Boyd, season nine’s third-place finalist Casey James and The Voice season 10 runner up Adam Wakefield have joined together to form country trio Texas Hill.

mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about an alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd's death. According to a former coworker, not only did they know each other, but they had a history of friction.Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at a nightclub at the same time.

Sarah Jessica Parker is sharing a message about the fight for racial justice. While the funeral service for George Floyd was being held in Houston, Texas, the “Sex And the City” star expressed her support for the “historic march” toward social change that is sweeping the world in his name.

Sarah Jessica Parker is sharing a message about the fight for racial justice. While the funeral service for George Floyd was being held in Houston, Texas, the star expressed her support for the «historic march» toward social change that is sweeping the world in his name.Parker, who has been an outspoken advocate for the international protests sparked by Floyd's death, shared the heartfelt and passionate message to her Instagram Tuesday afternoon.«Today, Mr.

Jordana Brewster has reportedly separated from her husband Andrew Form after 13 years of marriage. The Fast and the Furious star is said to have “quietly separated” from the film producer earlier this year, according to a new report from People.com, with a source describing the break-up as “amicable”.

told Fox News Sunday, “I retweeted without watching the full video and I deeply apologize. I deleted the tweet.

People magazine on Saturday.

George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter, Gianna, gushed about her late father in a moving Tuesday, June 2, video.

Lil Nas X took to Twitter on Tuesday (June 2) to share his reaction to a popular video from the Black Lives Matter protests happening in Texas."The time has arrived," the rapper captioned his gleeful retweet of the viral video, which features a group of at least a dozen Black cowboys riding up to the protests on horseback.As the modern-day cowboys -- who reportedly belong to the Houston, Tex.-based urban trail-riding club known as the Nonstop Riders -- triumphantly crest a hill with their fists

T.I. has been using his platform to talk about social injustice on his social media account for a really long time.