Filmmaker Billy Luther on Why Authentic Casting Is Crucial for Native American Movies

Joanne Shenandoah, the celebrated Native American singer-songwriter who performed before world leaders and on high-profile stages, has died.

Michael Appler August Wilson is well remembered for remarking that Black theater is alive, vibrant, vital and unfunded — that commerce and a common racism had long held American theater hostage to a mediocrity of tastes.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThere is a Native film from 1989 about a road trip called “Powwow Highway” starring Gary Farmer and A Martinez. It’s a wonderful film that I enjoyed, and I highly recommend it to people who haven’t seen it.

Array Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s narrative change collective, announced its acquisition of award-winning filmmaker Sterlin Harjo’s documentary feature Love and Fury. 

splats) that harken back to the CBS version. But that’s OK in the context of a reunion movie.

Star Tribune. Bly won a National Book Award for his 1967 poetry collection “The Light Around the Body.” According to the New York Times, he donated his $1,000 prize to the draft resistance and was as outspoken in opposing the Vietnam War as he was as an advocate for poetry in modern American life.

TooFab, Meledandri said that as an Italian American himself, he understood the concerns that Pratt, who is not from an Italian background, would be voicing an Italian cartoon and video game character. And asked if the movie would lean heavily into Mario’s accent from the original games and his catch phrase, “It’s-a-me, Mario!,” Meledandri explained that while the film addresses that, it’s not how Pratt intends to voice the character.

Madelyn Cline is enjoying a night out!

Billy Porter is prepared for rainy weather!

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.

Måneskin and Tyler, The Creator have been added to the line-up for this year’s American Music Awards.They join the likes of Coldplay, BTS, Silk Sonic, Olivia Rodrigo, Bad Bunny, Megan Thee Stallion and more who have already been tapped up to perform at the event, while Diplo will serve as the DJ for the night.Billy Porter, Machine Gun Kelly, Brandy and more have been enlisted as presenters, with West Side Story stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler, JoJo Siwa, Winnie Harlow, JB Smoove, Anthony

Kathleen Hanna and Tom Morello are among a number of musicians protesting new Amazon palm scanners at music venues.The technology, recently implemented “as a form of “convenient” ticketless entry” at a number of US venues including the famous Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, is “an example of biometric data collection, and could turn Red Rocks into the site of ICE raids, police violence, and false arrests,” the letter states.On a new website called Amazon Doesn’t Rock, the likes of DIIV,

Throughout the years, and particularly at the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, BHT helped leverage critical funding to help grassroots organizations serving those affected by the disease — funding that was otherwise nearly impossible for smaller nonprofits to obtain.Since that time, the organization has raised more than $3.5 million benefitting over 200 different community nonprofits.BHT Foundation has also partnered with some of its grantees to provide training and leadership,

Billy Porter has apologised to Harry Styles for criticising his Vogue cover shoot in which the former One Direction singer wore a dress.Styles made history in December 2020 as US Vogue’s first-ever male solo cover star where he was pictured wearing a Gucci dress and skirt.Porter later expressed his objection to the fashion magazine’s decision to feature Styles, telling The Times: “I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in

Could a collaboration between Taylor Swift and rock’s legendary Piano Man be far off?