Macy Gray Says “It’s Time” For A New American Flag That Represents “All Of Us” In Juneteenth Op-Ed

Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde took the top prize at the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling the word “murraya.” For those who aren’t botanists — or brilliant 8th graders — murraya is “a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae,” according to Wikipedia.

New Jersey and Connecticut were crowned the best states for pizza by Food & Wine Magazine‘s latest pizza report. But there might be a new pizza king in town: Portland, Oregon.The authors of the upcoming three-volume, 1,700-page book, “Modernist Pizza,” ate almost 400 pies from coast to coast and claim Portland to have the best slices in the US.

found the organization had violated New Jersey’s consumer fraud law.In issuing that decision, the jury found that JONAH had violated the consumer fraud law by promising a service on which it could not deliver: the changing of clients’ orientation from gay to straight, on the premise that being gay is a treatable mental disorder, a position that was rejected by the American Psychiatric Association more than four decades ago.It also awarded the plaintiffs — three former clients and two of their

relationship with the flag.“You should NOT be ashamed to #FlyTheFlag #ProudAmerican” PragerU tweeted in celebration of the Fourth of July.You should NOT be ashamed to #FlyTheFlag #ProudAmerican pic.twitter.com/r0HM2PgmKYBut, looking closely at the flag posted, there are 54 stars instead of 50.

Not everyone was celebrating the 245th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this weekend. Particularly four prominent media outlets, who delivered decidedly downbeat assessments of the significance of American independence and its symbols this weekend.

The 70,000-square-foot expansion at the New-York Historical Society will include an entire floor dedicated to the new American LGBTQ+Museum. Photo: Courtesy Robert A.M. Stern Architects

A new series about the American AIDS epidemic and ACT UP New York (from 1987-1993) is coming to the small screen. Deadline reports that British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (“Weekend,” “Looking“) will showrun “Let The Record Show,” based on a new novel that covers New York activism surrounding the AIDS crisis.

Actress Vanessa Hudgens says she never fancied finding love on a dating app, and yet ended up meeting the new man in her life, American baseball star Cole Tucker, over Zoom."I still cannot get over the fact that it happened. I remember during quarantine I was single, and I thought I'll go on a date.

Macy Gray is speaking out.

Macy Gray has called for an update to the American flag in order so that it better represents its diverse population.The singer-songwriter penned an op-ed for Market Watch in which she has suggested that the flag “no longer represents democracy and freedom”.Written for Juneteenth (June 19), the US holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans which was written into legislation by President Joe Biden on Thursday (June 17), Gray began her piece with some background about the

Macy Gray believes it’s time to update the American flag.

Macy Gray is celebrating Juneteenth by calling for a redesign of one of the United States’ most iconic symbols: its flag.

MarketWatch ahead of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the official emancipation of slaves in the U.S. She argued that the Confederate flag has found a replacement in Old Glory, citing Capitol insurrectionists and other far-right groups’ co-opting of the classic American imagery to suggest that their aims and that of the country are one and the same.  “Like the Confederate, it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect,” she wrote, “It no longer represents democracy and freedom.

Macy Gray is facing criticism over her call for a new American flag.

Macy Gray is calling for a redesign of the American flag.

David Byrne‘s ‘American Utopia’ has been confirmed for a re-run on Broadway in 2021 after an initial 17-week return schedule was postponed last year due to the coronavirus crisis.The stage show, which is based on Byrne’s 2018 album of the same name, will this time see a longer, six-month run in New York City’s theatre district, moving from The Hudson to the larger St.

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions have acquired North American rights to writer/director Evan Jackson Leong’s Snakehead.