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The organization called Pose and Supergirl “history-making” in terms of representation on TV. For the past several years, the entertainment industry has been the subject of many a conversation about representation and inclusion of women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals onscreen. Whether those conversations are affecting enough change — not to mention whether it’s happening fast enough — remains a heated debate, but many recent TV and film projects, from Billions to Crazy Rich Asians, have at least shown real progress. The latest report by the media monitoring organization GLAAD, which compiles an annual report that specifically studies LGBTQ representation on television, suggests another step in the right direction. The 2018 edition, which covers shows airing between June 1, 2018, and May 31, 2019, reflects a markedly positive change in diversity and representation, including, as noted in GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis’s introductory letter, two “history-makin...

#Starwars , #Jedi #Georgelucas #Lucasfilm If you're looking to become one of the wealthiest people in the world, it's simple: just create one of the most lucrative and famous franchises of all time and then sell it to one of the biggest companies in existence. Piece of cake, right? Well, that's what George Lucas managed to do and he has now topped Forbes’ list of America’s wealthiest celebrities. According to Forbes, the man behind the entire Star Wars franchise has a net worth of $5.4 billion. They claim he earned the top spot largely in part to the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, which happened back in 2012 for $4.1 billion. Since making the big sale, Lucas hasn’t been heavily involved in the Star Wars world, which has been branching out exponentially since the purchase. In addition to the current main trilogy, which became the first since Lucas helmed the Star Wars prequels between 1999 and 2005, there have already been multiple stand-alone films (Rogue One: A Star ...

Fans of #KenyaMoore and #PhaedraParks were very disappointed to see their faves leave #RHOA and now, the reality TV show’s ratings have actually dropped a lot! Is there any chance that the two stars will return and save the series? No matter who your favorite Housewife is, you have to admit that ever since Kenya and Phaedra left, the show just hasn’t been the same and the ever dropping ratings are proof enough. So would the two ladies consider coming back and helping the numbers return to the what they once were? As it turns out, it is not out of the question! One insider tells HollywoodLife that ‘Kenya and Phaedra are loving knowing that they are missed on RHOA. They are aware that ratings are down this season, and both ladies feel that a huge reason is because of them. They know they really help make the show.’ As you probably remember, Phaedra exited RHOA after a problematic season during which she allegedly lied about Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker planning on drugging Po...

#Presidentialbid #Senator #ElizabethWarren, the Massachusetts #Democrat and a sharp critic of big banks and unregulated capitalism, entered the 2020 race for president on Monday, becoming the first major candidate in what is likely to be a long and crowded primary marked by ideological and generational divisions in a Democratic Party desperate to beat President Trump. In an 8:30 a.m. email to supporters on New Year’s Eve — 13 months before the first votes will be cast in the Iowa caucuses — Ms. Warren said she was forming an exploratory committee, which allows her to raise money and fill staff positions before a formal kickoff of her presidential bid. Ms. Warren also released a video that leaned on the anti-Wall Street themes, a campaign message that drew strong praise Monday morning from liberal groups. [Make sense of the people, issues and ideas shaping American politics with our newsletter. ] “I’ve spent my career getting to the bottom of why America’s promise works for some familie...

#AffordableCareAct # Obamacare #A ppeal The federal judge who earlier this month, declared the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate unconstitutional earlier this month issued an order on Sunday saying despite his previous ruling the law can remain in effect pending appeal. Texas federal District Judge Reed O'Connor said in his ruling that "many everyday Americans would otherwise face great uncertainty during the pendency of an appeal." O'Connor ruled the individual coverage mandate of the health care law popularly known as Obamacare was unconstitutional and said, therefore, the law cannot stand. The invalidation of the landmark health care law threw the future of health coverage for millions of Americans on the ACA exchanges and in Medicaid expansion into doubt. O'Connor wrote in his original opinion, "Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of Congress's Tax Power and is still impermissible under the Inter...

There is one thing that the Aquaman movie might clear up for DC fans: Atlanteans are nearly as strong and invulnerable as the Man of Steel himself, Superman. In DC Comics, Atlanteans are a fictional race of sea people who live in the ancient underwater city of Atlantis. And they are some of the most ancient beings to reside on Earth, though their origins are alien. At one point, Atlantis was even the center of civilization on the planet. The upcoming Aquaman movie focuses on Arthur Curry, a half Atlantean and half human man who must reluctantly become King of Atlantis and help protect it from threats, not just from surface dwellers - and it looks like Arthur's people are more than capable of handling themselves against those threats. In a set visit report from JoBlo, it was revealed that, in the DC movie universe, Atlanteans are almost equal in power to Superman and, presumably, other Kryptonians as well: "The Atlanteans have the ability to live und...

#PaulMcCowns #Microaggressions #Racisim # HuntingtonBank Vigilant employees of a #Cleveland area bank alerted the authorities to a black man who suspiciously tried to conduct a financial transaction at a financial institution, causing them to question the motives behind his blatant negro shenanigans. WOIO reports that Paul McCowns went to a Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio, to cash his paycheck on Saturday, December 1. McCowns presented the tellers with two forms of identification and offered his fingerprint, which is required of all non-Huntington customers. This apparently raised the eyebrows of the diligent dollar-bill counters who were apparently also working as an undercover investigative team at the bank inside the grocery store on the outskirts of Cleveland. Because everyone knows that’s where the real action is. After looking at his ID and giving him the white look that white people throw at thugs who don’t look like they enjoy mayonnaise souffle, they went...

#LukeCage #Daredevil #JessicaJones # Defenders #Marvel Try to be surprised. Really, just try. But it’s not quite as simple as you might think, even if you were surprised. In the endless hell year of 2018 the fact that Netflix turned to Thanos and asked him to watch in awe as it decimated its own Marvel roster feels like it was ancient history. The cancellation of Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and then Daredevil seemingly out of nowhere left fans not only asking why but also assuming that these shows—and presumably Jessica Jones and The Punisher, whenever those eventually join their comrades in the canceled pile—were being primed for a splashy return on Disney’s own upcoming streaming service, Disney+. And while it’s not a certainty quite yet, it seems like that could be an option on the table—at least, according to Kevin Mayer, Disney’s chairman for its direct-to-consumer deals. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in a wide-ranging interview this week, Mayer didn’t exactly confirm that i...

A passion for Prada runs in the family.#KimKardashian #KimK #NorthWest  Kim Kardashian, 38, shared a family photo from her annual Christmas party on Instagram on Wednesday, posing with her husband, Kanye West, 41, and their three children. And fans couldn’t stop talking about how much her eldest child, daughter North West, 5, looks like the reality star’s mini-me. View this post on Instagram Merry Christmas 🎄 A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Dec 26, 2018 at 3:14pm PST For the party, the kindergartner posed with her parents in a pint-size version of the same $980 Prada zip-up turtleneck with a red logo-printed stripe worn by both her mom and grandmother before her. She topped the sweater with a black slip dress covered in black spike sequins, black tights and black Dr. Martens. North was also allowed to straighten her hair for the evening, something Kim has explained in the past she only a...

A telephone rings in a corner of Giles Martin’s private mixing room at  Abbey Road Studios , catching the latter-day producer of Beatles recordings by surprise. “That never rings,” he says, reaching over to pick up the receiver. It’s his wife, Melanie, calling from their 23-acre farm about 80 miles away with happily urgent news: Eggs laid by one of the ducks they keep — alongside sheep, horses and other farm creatures — were starting to hatch. By the next morning, all seven eggs will yield ducklings. Martin, 49, is visibly relieved at the farm report, which may well be a good omen for another septuplet delivery he’s shepherding into the world: a seven-disc 50 th- anniversary box set revisiting the Beatles’ 1968 double album “The Beatles,” colloquially known as the White Album. It was, in many ways, the Beatles’ most ambitious, most sprawling studio creation and demonstrably the biggest commercial success of the group’s fabled career: It has sold more th...