T.I. pens open letter to Lloyds of London calling out its role in the slave trade

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Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals is back with a series of self-shot shows.However, the series, which was rebooted last year after its initial 11 year run, will debut on the Food Network Kitchen app rather than the linear network.The Discovery-owned company is launching 20 episodes this fall on the direct-to-consumer service, which launched last October.

Conde Nast, is trying to renegotiate or get out of the lease on its headquarters at 1 World Trade Center, sources tell Variety.The one-time, all-powerful media empire — which includes such prestigious magazine titles as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue — decamped from its longtime home at 4 Time Square in 2014.

Bobby Shmurda is almost home. An officer from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has reportedly told Complex that the long-incarcerated rapper is expected to appear in front of the Board of Parole later this month — the week of August 17, to be precise.

The 2020 edition of the New York Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock, it was announced today. Lovers Rock is part of McQueen's Small Axe anthology of five original films, which will premiere on BBC One later this year and on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.

Ever since its announcement as part of this year’s Cannes Film Festival Official Selections, Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology series from Amazon has been positioned as one of the 2020 fall festival darlings. And it appears that is playing out at this year’s New York Film Festival, which will not only debut a feature-length episode of the anthology as its Opening Night film but will also showcase two additional episodes as part of the main slate.

Moments ago, the New York Film Festival announced their Opening Night Selection, and it’s not a title you’d expect. Going in a different direction than at least I anticipated, they’ve tapped Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock as the Opener.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSteve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of “12 Years a Slave” and “Shame,” is best known for his searing big-screen work. So it is fitting that the New York Film Festival would turn to the British auteur to kick off its 58th edition with his new work “Lovers Rock.

Amidst backlash against a drive-in show by The Chainsmokers, New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for an investigation into the event by the New York Department of Health.

Lily Moayeri Where there’s smoke, there’s definitely the fire of social media reaction, at least, as the Chainsmokers are taking heat for a controversial charity fundraiser held in the Hamptons at a 100-acre lot transformed into a drive-in for the concert.As a result of the concern over the show, one state official has jumped in to demand answers.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama paid a virtual visit to Crip Camp, a.k.a. New York’s Camp Jened, a summer camp for children and teenagers with disabilities; due to the pandemic, this summer campers are experiencing the camp as a virtual experience.

NEW YORK -- The 45th Toronto International Film Festival will be a much diminished event this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has an opening-night film. Spike Lee's filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway theatrical concert “American Utopia” will kick off the largely virtual fall festival.

The Boys has been renewed for a third season by Amazon Studios.The decision comes ahead of the launch of the second season of the hit series, due to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 4, 2020.Based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the show, which launched on Amazon Prime last year, follows the story of a group of vigilantes fighting back against superheroes who abuse their abilities.Created by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Eric Kripke, the

in response to a letter earlier this week from 280-plus staffers of the paper and parent company Dow Jones that criticized the opinion section and called for better labeling of opinion pieces and stronger fact-checking of op-eds.“It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerMore than 280 journalists at The Wall Street Journal and parent company Dow Jones have a difference on opinion.In a letter sent to Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour, the editors, reporters and others protested what they termed the spread of “misinformation” in the WSJ opinion section.The WSJ dustup comes just weeks after a similar uprising at the New York Times over an opinion piece by Republican Sen.

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Ellie Goulding took over Billboard's Instagram on Friday (July 17) to dish about her new double album Brightest Blue in this week's edition of First Stream+.Filming from her home in London, the pop star opened up about the inspiration behind her long-awaited fourth LP, which arrives nearly four years after 2015's Delirium. "It was written a few years back in New York," she says of Brightest Blue in the IGTV exclusive.

coronavirus transmission risks. New York City also has been barred from opening up indoor dining, unlike the rest of the state.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Twitter hackers behind the unprecedented coordinated July 15 attack on high-profile accounts of multiple celebrities, politicians, tech titans and Silicon Valley companies went after about 130 separate accounts, the company said late Thursday.