'We were the only black people in Whitefield' - reality TV star Jsky on how he learned to fight racism with love

Jude Law is clearly in the blockbuster phase of his career. After decades of building himself up to be one of the best actors in the business, he’s cashing in with big roles in Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” and “Fantastic Beasts” at Warner Bros.

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.

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.

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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.

In a pandemic, there are roughly two types of stay-at-homers. There are the ones who lean into the nothingness, racking up eight different Netflix shows a day in last week’s tracksuit bottoms and accepting that this just isn’t their year.

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.

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

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Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio have both pledged to fight racism as protests continue around the world.Protestors began to take to the streets last week after George Floyd died while being arrested by Minneapolis police.The actors have now spoken out separately in the wake of the protests. Depp shared a video of a speech by Killer Mike on his Instagram page, posting it with a lengthy caption.“There is no way to make sense of what is senseless,” he wrote.