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wcinkala pmc-editorial-manager Variety and IllumiNative are partnering with SXSW to host a panel on the importance of Native American representation in Hollywood. The event, held at Moonshine Grill from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, will include a one-on-one conversation with Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and executive director of IllumiNative, followed by a conversation with Lashay Wesley, director of communications and storytelling at IllumiNative, and Patrick Smith, executive producer at DIGA, about IllumiNative’s new podcast, “American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools.” The podcast examines the atrocities and human rights violations committed against Native children at Native American Boarding Schools and follows Crystal and Lashay as they investigate and search for answers and justice at Red Cloud Indian School, a former boarding school in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Both conversations will be moderated by Cynthia Littleton, co-editor-in-chief, Variety.

Jordan Moreau IllumiNative, a national Native woman-led social justice organization is launching a documentary-style podcast, titled “American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools,” to uncover a horrifying truth about one of the United States government’s best kept secrets. The podcast examines the atrocities and human rights violations committed against Native children at Native American boarding schools by the U.S. federal government and Catholic Church and follows the ongoing federal investigation into these crimes. In the six-episode series, Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee), founder and executive director of IllumiNative, and Lashay Wesley (Choctaw), director of communications and storytelling at IllumiNative, investigate and search for answers and justice at Red Cloud Indian School, a former boarding school in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

debunked theory that claims young people — especially those assigned female at birth, and those who claim to have so-called “autism” or similar neurological or developmental disorders — will identify as transgender due to “social contagion” or peer pressure. The newly enacted law makes Mississippi the sixth state to pass either a complete or partial ban on gender-affirming care, although complete bans in other states, such as Alabama and Arkansas, have been halted as lawsuits challenging those laws work their way through the courts.Other states, such as Utah and Arizona, have enacted partial bans, blocking all surgical treatments on minors. Utah’s law also imposes a permanent moratorium on puberty blockers for any youth who has not already been receiving hormonal interventions for at least six months.The passage of the Mississippi law continues the trend of Republican-dominated legislatures and Republican governors taking aggressive action to prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming care to trans-identifying minors.A similar law signed by South Dakota Gov.

After Nathan Chasing Horse was recently charged with sexual assault in Nevada, a grand jury indicted the "Dances with Wolves" actor Wednesday on 19 counts -- including trafficking and child abuse to include kidnapping, lewdness and drug trafficking. The disgraced 46-year-old actor has allegedly been trafficking Indigenous women and girls for decades, as he faces charges in Nevada, Canada and now in Montana, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, with the newest case.

Charna Flam Veteran entertainment publicist Andrew Freedman died Feb. 8 in New York after being diagnosed with liver cancer in August. He was 67. Freedman worked with clients including Gayle King, Barbara Walters, Joan Collins, Margo Martindale, Christopher McDonald and Harry Shearer. Prior to his career as a publicist, Freedman served as communications specialist to Sen. Ted Kennedy during his 1980 presidential campaign, which was followed by his campaign work for Sen. George McGovern in South Dakota and Reps. Jim Howard and Andy Maguire in New Jersey. Following his campaigning involvement, from 1984-1991 Freedman worked at NBC and served as a spokesman for the network’s programming. Freedman oversaw the network’s press operation for the U.S.-Russian Reykjavík and Geneva summits, the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the network’s presidential election coverage and managed media relations for NBC Nightly News, “Meet the Press” and the “Today” show.

challenging a similar law in Utah.Under the bill, doctors are prohibited from providing various forms of gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgical treatments, to minors. Supporters claim such restrictions are needed to protect children from pursuing irreversible transition-related treatments that they may later grow to regret.“We need to stand in the gap for vulnerable children and guide them towards true health and healing,” Sen.

Happy for her! While Dale Moss and Clare Crawley had a rocky relationship together, the former football player sends his best wishes amid her recent wedding to Ryan Dawkins.

Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, an actor in Dances with Wolves and now known as Nathan Chasing Horse, was arrested in Nevada following on sexual assault charges following a raid at his home.

Mary Fitzgerald is just like Us! The Selling Sunset star, 42, is focused on her physical health, work — and making sure she gets her daily dose of caffeine. 

Hot mama! Teen Mom 2 alum Chelsea Houska has remained committed to her workout routine and healthy eating habits after welcoming four children over the years.

No drama for this mama. Teen Mom 2 alum Chelsea Houska exclusively gave Us an update on where she stands with ex Adam Lind as they continue to coparent daughter Aubree.

Teen Mom 2 fans, get ready to see fan-favorite couple Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer back on the small screen! The reality stars teamed up for their own HGTV show, Down Home Fab, premiering in January 2023.

Wichita State Men’s basketball player Isaiah Poor Bear-Chandler isn’t pleased with how his culturally significant name was mocked by CBS Broadcasters.

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has picked up worldwide rights to writer and director Nicole Riegel’s sophomore feature and romantic drama Dandelion. A theatrical release is planned for next year.

Now this is what you call a gorge-ous car collection, even if most of these cars need some work. Gary Kuchar has been collecting and working on cars for the better part of his 84 years. The native Nebraskan left his family farm after high school to head to California as part of the early hot rod scene, where he became a body man building custom cars.

With Gavin Newsom currently holding a 27-point lead in the race for California’s top office, the Golden State governor — who continues to deny national political ambitions — is again leveraging his campaign war chest to confront Republican governors in their own states.

His love for corn earned him viral fame and a day dedicated to him in South Dakota, but now “corn kid” Tariq has a whole lot more than corn to be excited about.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” won the Grand Prize of the Deauville American Film Festival on Saturday evening during a ceremony which was followed by the French premiere of Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” “Aftersun” had world premiered at Critics Week in Cannes where it won a prize. The movie marks the feature debut of Wells, a New York-based Scottish filmmaker. Headlined by “Normal People” actor Paul Mescal, the bittersweet drama follows a father and his daughter who take a holiday at a Turkish resort in the late 1990s. The movie is being represented in international markets by Charades and will be distributed in North America by A24.

Protagonist Pictures has closed a French distribution deal with Les Films du Losange on Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s Cannes Camera d’Or winning directorial debut War Pony.

After nearly half a century, the Academy is issuing a long-overdue apology to Sacheen Littlefeather for mistreatment at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. At the time, "The Godfather" was the talk of the town, and it earned Hollywood icon Marlon Brando an Oscar for Best Actor that year.

onstage at the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony on behalf of Marlon Brando.The now-75-year-old was booed, laughed at and heckled for refusing Brando’s award for Best Actor in “The Godfather.” Now, almost 50 years later, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has offered her a formal apology.“The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified,” wrote academy President David Rubin in the note. “The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable.

Clayton Davis When Marlon Brando was named best actor for his performance as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s best picture winner “The Godfather” (1972), a 26-year-old Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/AZ) took the stage to decline the prize on behalf of the actor. She was lambasted with an avalanche of boos from the audience, racist gestures such as “tomahawk chops” and threatened with violence offstage.Fifty years later, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is apologizing for the treatment she received that evening, in addition to holding a special program and conversation titled “An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather” on Sept.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday that it has formally apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather over the actress’ famed appearance at the 1973 Oscars, where she appeared on Marlon Brando’s behalf to decline his Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Godfather.

Ozzy Osbourne, which first debuted at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, has “embarked” on a “tour” of the US to promote the iconic rocker’s forthcoming ‘Patient Number 9’ album.The ultra-sized Ozzy measures in at 25 feet (or 7.62 metres) tall, and was designed by acclaimed comic artist Todd McFarlane. It’s already made a few stops on the “tour” – during which fans will be able to pose with “Ozzy” and its accompanying ‘Patient Number 9’ ambulance van – having appeared on Venice Boardwalk and the rooftop of Gold Diggers in LA, and along the Las Vegas strip.Today and tomorrow (August 13), fans in South Dakota will be able to see “Ozzy” at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

This is terrifying!!!

recently had to in Ohio, Noem deflected. “What’s incredible is that nobody’s talking about the pevert, horrible and deranged individual that raped a 10-year-old, and what are we doing about that?” Noem replied.When Bash reiterated her question, the governor said: “This tragedy is horrific, I can’t even imagine, I’ve never had anybody in my family or myself gone through anything like this… but in South Dakota, the law today is that abortions are illegal except to save the life of the mother.”Bash then pointedly asked if she would “be okay with a 10-year-old girl having to have a baby,” to which Noem replied: “No, I’m never okay with that.

Liev Schreiber and Taylor Neisen are enjoying a summer vacation in Europe!

, effectively taking away the constitutional right to legal abortion access. Abortion may soon be banned in and is officially illegal in Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri, and South Dakota. According to , an research and advocacy group for reproductive rights, a total of 26 states are “certain or likely” to completely ban abortion in the upcoming weeks and months. The decision has caused a reproductive rights—and human rights—crisis, with many and everyone from politicians to celebrities the loss of safe and legal abortion access for people who can become pregnant. Emergency contraception and birth control are still available and legal—though anti-abortion legislators have contraceptives may be their next target.

Laura Prepon is speaking up against the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorA group of prominent entertainment industry women gathered Saturday for a video conference call to discuss next steps in the reignited fight for reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.The gathering was organized in part by Katie McGrath, a partner in Bad Robot who is married to superproducer J.J.

Carole Horst Would you like your social-justice messages delivered with a huge dose of glamour from three world-class drag queens? Then “We’re Here” is for you!The premise is slyly subversive: Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka and Shangela roll into a small town in a more conservative part of the country, seek out the LGBTQ+ community and allies there to perform in a drag show, drum up publicity for it, then unleash fabulousness into the universe.Along the way, they hear heart-wrenching stories, joyous stories, survivor stories, sad stories and infuriating stories, culminating in an empowering drag performance that can be parts happy, raunchy, poignant, sexy and always eye-popping (because there are still tons of sequins and enormous wigs). And they always come back to the importance of family — whether that’s biological or chosen or both, it’s all about that strength.

, Jibri admits to his parents that he's basically being forced to marry Miona in 90 days so that she can stay in America with him as opposed to her having to go back to Serbia, her home country.Miona has rubbed Jibri's loved ones the wrong way since moving to South Dakota to be with him, specifically, his parents as well as his best friend, David. Miona wants to leave South Dakota and live in Los Angeles sooner rather than later, though Jibri has told her they need to save money by living with his parents before they can make the move. Miona has also caused a rift between Jibri and David, with Jibri noting that he felt he's given up his band — which also has David in it — for her. In the clip, David's dad asks Jibri bluntly if he would marry Miona if he didn't have a 90-day time limit for her visa.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Silos Baking Competition” premiered to record-setting ratings for Magnolia Network Sunday, a turnout Chip and Joanna Gaines apparently saw coming a mile away, as their channel is already in pre-production on another baking competition series, Variety has learned exclusively.That unannounced baking competition is the first of several in the works at the cable channel, according to one source close to production.Simulcast across Food Network and Magnolia Network, a joint venture between the Gaineses and Warner Bros. Discovery, the one-hour premiere of “Silos Baking Competition,” which takes place at Chip and Jo’s Waco-based bakery, Silos Baking Co., drew more than 1.5 million viewers Sunday.

Sara Jumping Eagle grew up on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest counties in the US. She graduated from Stanford Medical School and returned to the reservation to help the Lakota people as a pediatrician and activist.Now 50, Jumping Eagle never expected to wind up on a busy street in Santa Monica last month — in a physical brawl with “The Flash” star Ezra Miller, 29.

Final rose worthy! More than one year after Dale Moss and Clare Crawley split for good, the former football player has moved on with Galey Alix (née Gravenstein).

New couple alert! Dale Moss and designer Galey Alix (née Gravenstein) are dating, a source tells Us Weekly.