Hulu Shifts ‘Love, Victor’ & ‘Taste the Nation’ Premieres In Observance Of Juneteenth

Paramore‘s Hayley Williams is among those calling for the Mississippi state flag to be changed because it contains the Confederate battle emblem.Mississippi is the last state in the US whose flag features the emblem.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLike many Americans, David Dobkin had never heard of the Eurovision Song Contest. But when the script for “Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga” from Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele landed on his lap, the director of “Wedding Crashers” immediately fell in love with the characters.

The new film “Miss Juneteenth” was released on the 155th anniversary of the first Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the delayed freedom of enslaved Black people in 1865.

Annie, “American Cars”Those of us who have been following Norwegian pop star Annie since her “Chewing Gum” days in the mid-2000s -- and were delighted by 2009 comeback Don’t Stop -- have long been waiting for this day.

Juneteenth — also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day — commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation when slaves in Texas were finally freed on June 19, 1865. Once a day only celebrated in Texas, recognition has grown within the black community and beyond as awareness for it increased, particularly over the past decade.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAfter 20 years immersing herself in food culture, Padma Lakshmi still had a burning question without a clear answer: what even is “American food,” anyway? “We throw around a lot of platitudes like, ‘nothing’s as American as apple pie.’ Well, apple pie is not American,” laughs Lakshmi. “Not one ingredient in apple pie is indigenous to North America.

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer have confirmed the rescheduled dates for their postponed ‘Hella Mega Tour’ in the UK and Ireland – you can see the full schedule below.The trio of US bands were forced to cancel the inaugural European leg of the stint in April due to the coronavirus outbreak, and they told fans last month that it would be taking place instead at some point across summer 2021.Today (June 10), it has been announced that the ‘Hella Mega Tour’ in UK and Ireland run will now kick

Netflix's new medical documentary series Lenox Hill is an earnest and well-meaning effort on all levels, one originally made without any cynicism at all. The cynicism comes into play now — in how the series, shot mostly in 2018, will inevitably get more attention because of the coronavirus crisis and our moment of public recognition of the heroism of doctors.

American Chopper is on the channel that's hard to not call the Discovery Channel but is technically just called Discovery, and the kids' movie Artemis Fowl is skipping theaters and heading straight to Disney+. But there's stuff on Netflix too, of course, most notably the new Spike Lee joint Da 5 Bloods and Season 2 of dating reality series Dating Around.

protests continue to take place across the US and around the world after George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed in Minneapolis on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes and ignored the man’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe.Colston Hall is named after Edward Colston, a prominent 17th Century slave trader who has been a controversial figure in the city of Bristol for many years.

Victoria Beckham has vowed to do better to address diversity in her work as a fashion designer as part of her support for the Black Lives Matter movement.The former Spice Girls star has joined the many celebrities speaking out about personal accountability in the wake of the mass protests worldwide demanding social and racial justice, sparked by the death of African-American man George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minnesota last month.