Little Simz: “People expect Black people to have all the answers”

There are several films that are surefire ways to stoke debate and discussion amongst cinephiles. One of those features is the controversial 2006 Best Picture Oscar winner, “Crash.” Despite receiving acclaim at the time, “Crash” has gone on to become analyzed quite a bit about the way it handles racism, sexual assault, and other touchy subjects.

Robert Johnson, the founder of BET and an avid critic of activists on the left of the political spectrum, thinks the removal of confederate statues is not an important issue for Black people. The death of a Black man named George Floyd in Minnesota last month has sparked a lot of unrest around the country and launched conversations about police brutality and racism.

Little Simz (a.k.a. Simbi Ajikawo) has renewed her partnership with AWAL Recordings, which provides a full range of services including global marketing and promotion, digital and physical distribution, campaign coordination, A&R support, synch licensing and brand partnerships.Little Simz garnered acclaim with her most recent album, GREY Area, which was released on her own label, Age 101, via AWAL.

Sir Elton John and husband David Furnish discussed police brutality, equality, COVID-19, and a number of other important world issues with Katie Couric, as part of TIME 100 Talks on June 25. The interview addressed systemic racism and how the couple, who are founders of Elton John Aids Foundation, is getting involved with much-needed change.

black and black characters should be played by black people.

Jenny Slate announced that she can no longer voice Missy — a character that's been lauded as sensitive portrayal of sweet, weird, and brilliant Black girls — on Netflix's Big Mouth. "At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White — as am I. But Missy is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people," said Slate.

Jenny Slate, who has voiced the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald since the 2017 Netflix debut of Big Mouth, has decided to leave the series to make room for a Black actor to join the show.“I have come to the decision today that I can no longer play the character of ‘Missy’ on the animated TV show Big Mouth.

Jenny Slate is leaving Big Mouth.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJenny Slate is exiting her role as Missy (pictured above, center) on the Netflix show “Big Mouth” due to the character being biracial while Slate is white.“At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play ‘Missy’ because her mom is Jewish and white — as am I,” Slate wrote on Instagram.

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Little Simz has spoken about racial equality in the music industry, saying there’s “a lot more that can be done.”In response to the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, an industry initiative saw a blackout on social media for one day.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story, Simz said: “There’s a lot more that can be done, but I think it’s a wider conversation to be had, to be honest.

Kobalt’s AWAL recordings division has renewed its artist services deal with Simbi Ajikawo, aka Little Simz, and her label Age 101.

revealed last week that he’d been stopped by LAPD officers while jogging recently and that one cop placed a knee on Pharoah’s neck, said on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday that black people in America are made to “feel like we’re guilty until proven innocent.”Pharoah, 32, described an emotional phone conversation he had with his mother after the police incident in April.“I called my mom and told her what happened,” Pharoah told co-host Gayle King. “My dad was on the phone too.

Jordan Peele is making some power moves in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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