‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’ Director on Parallels to Today’s Black Lives Matter Protests

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefIn 2018, I interviewed Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler for the cover of Variety, a few weeks before “Black Panther” opened in theaters.At the time, neither of them knew that the Marvel movie — the first studio superhero film with a Black director and mostly Black cast — would shatter box office records, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide.At our photo shoot that afternoon, at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Boseman climbed on a boulder in his socks, as a Disney

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Brooklyn and Nicola officially announced their engagement back in July after dating for nine months.He initially remained in New York to be with her while the rest of the Beckham family self-isolated at their mansion in the Cotswolds.‘Two weeks ago I asked my soulmate to marry me and she said yes xx I am the luckiest man in the world. I promise to be the best husband and the best daddy one day.

Baseball’s Mets and Marlins are standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters.

The New York Mets and the Miami Marlins didn’t play their scheduled game on Thursday (August 27) as the players all walked off the field in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorA day after the NBA and other leagues postponed games in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, some NFL teams have canceled or postponed their practices today.The Indianapolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets and the currently unnamed Washington club scrapped practice this morning, and other clubs including the Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers delayed the start of theirs.

NEW YORK -- A man who was among those charged in the notorious 1989 killing of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black teen set upon by a white mob and shot, was fired from a New York hip-hop radio station after a new documentary brought the murder case renewed attention.

Longtime Howard Stern Show personality “Stuttering John" Melendez is suing SiriusXM Radio for using his archived hot-button interviews with the likes of the Dalai Lama, Ringo Starr and Mike Tyson without compensation and in violation of his publicity rights.

Fans hoping to get their hands on Michael Stahan’s 2008 Super Bowl jersey are out of luck as the one up for auction is apparently a fake.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsEXCLUSIVE: Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has signed with ICM Partners.The Oakland-based writer and public speaker is also the Principal at the Black Futures Lab and the Black to the Future Action Fund. Garza has been featured a in number of outlets ranging Politico and The New York Times to Essence and Time.

NEW YORK — John Melendez, who became known as Stuttering John as a longtime sidekick to radio and television host Howard Stern, has sued Sirius XM Holdings Inc for using his name, likeness and voice without permission on channels dedicated to Stern.Melendez, who left Stern’s radio show after more than 15 years in 2004 and became the announcer for NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” on Wednesday accused Sirius of exploiting his celebrity to attract more listeners and advertising.He said

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coronavirus pandemic, forcing Gooding, lawyers and other participants to wear masks. Gooding had been scheduled to go on trial in April, but it was put off as infections surged in New York.

Amid a shortage of soundstages, New York is getting a new production hub. Steiner Studios, a well-known Brooklyn-based soundstage operatorthat's been home to productions like Joker and The Marevlous Mrs.

NEW YORK -- Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company is partnering with Brooklyn’s Long Island University to launch the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment. The new school will begin enrolling students for the fall 2021 semester, and 25% of the incoming freshmen class will receive Roc Nation Hope Scholarships.

Ryan Reynolds apologized for his 2012 wedding with Blake Lively at Boone Hall, a former slave plantation, in South Carolina.

If not for the coronavirus, Oprah Winfrey says, she would be out in the streets and marching with the Black Lives Matter protesters.