Warner Bros. TV Group Signs Overall Deal With Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay spoke on Tuesday at a Black Lives Matter election day event at Staples Center, where she encouraged attendees to cast their votes in the 2020 election. "Thank you for holding space for this resistance, for this power, for this voice, for demonstrating who we are, that we can proclaim what we want, that we can exercise rights that are given to us and rights that we take that are not given to us, that we can declare what we want," said the filmmaker, wearing a face mask.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season 5 premiere of This Is Us.It wouldn’t be a This Is Us premiere without a Big Three birthday party — and a massive twist. During the Monday, October 27, two-hour premiere, both happened.During the episode, the Big Three celebrated their 40th birthday in various ways.

Corrie has featured many Black characters.Factory machinist Shirley Armitage was the first regular Black character back in the '80s. She began a romance with supermarket manager Curly Watts.But it wasn't until last year that the ITV soap introduced its first-ever regular Black family, the Baileys, to better reflect modern day Manchester.Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod admitted their arrival was long overdue.

Organizers for the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter filed a lawsuit on Monday against county District Attorney Jackie Lacey and her husband over his alleged pointing of a firearm at demonstrators outside the couple’s home earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed by Civil rights attorney Carl Douglas, accuses the Laceys of assault, negligence, and inflicting emotional distress in connection with the March 2 incident.

Angelique Jackson Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi is experiencing a “full circle moment.”“I had actually just watched the film ‘Fruitvale Station,’ when I first heard that George Zimmerman was being acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin,” Tometi tells Variety, recalling the birth of the movement.

Corrie has featured many Black characters.Factory machinist Shirley Armitage was the first regular Black character back in the '80s. She began a romance with supermarket manager Curly Watts.But it wasn't until last year that the ITV soap introduced its first-ever regular Black family, the Baileys, to better reflect modern day Manchester.Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod admitted their arrival was long overdue.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterChanning Dungey, who less than two weeks ago left her post as vice president of originals at Netflix, has been tapped to succeed Peter Roth as chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group when he steps down in early 2021.“This is a homecoming of sorts for Channing, who was a production executive at Warner Bros.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAfter more than two decades leading Warner Bros.’ television operations, chairman Peter Roth has decided to leave his perch at the storied TV studio.Roth is slated to step down in early 2021.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIt’s an end of an era at Warner Bros. as Peter Roth, one of the most accomplished TV executives of the past couple of decades, will be leaving the independent television studio in early 2021 after 22 years.Roth was upped to his current role as Chairman of the Warner Bros.

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Lizzo is “optimistic and hopeful” following the global Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year (2020).In an interview on the Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, the Juice hitmaker admitted she’s confident that, once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, people will come together to build a more equal society for future generations.Reflecting on the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a U.S. police officer in 2014, she says: “People politicized it.

Warner Bros. Television has signed an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

Will Thorne Staff WriterPatrisse Cullors is making a big step into the television business.The co-founder of Black Lives Matter has signed her first over overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.

A Virginia Black Lives Matter leader was found guilty Wednesday morning in connection with a protest against police brutality that snarled traffic for almost two hours. Aubrey Jones, a 35-year-old Newport News man, already is appealing the convictions of obstructing free passage of others, a misdemeanor; and of being a pedestrian improperly on a highway.

One person was shot and killed, and two suspects were taken into custody during protests between opposing groups in Denver's Civic Center Park Saturday.  Video of the incident shows one gunshot being fired.

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