Lizzo was named Time Magazine’s Entertainer of the Year on Wednesday. Do we even need to ask how she’s feelin’? In the same news cycle that featured the 31-year-old singer twerking in a thong at a Lakers game and releasing a music video that literally trumpets black excellence, Lizzo earned a top spot in Time’s…
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Earlier this month Lifetime debuted Surviving R. Kelly, a six-part docuseries that explores the allegations of sexual assault and abuse that have surrounded the artist for decades. (He denies the accusations.) Until now the claims have had little impact on his career. But the response to the series has been enormous, with new attention on…
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President Donald Trump graced the latest cover of TIME magazine Thursday in what is perhaps their most harrowing visual critique of his presidency yet. For the cover, TIME created a photo illustration of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Moore’s now viral image of a two-year-old Honduran girl crying as her mother was being detained at the…
Read moreCelebrities using the red carpet as a platform for protest has been a topic of conversation at every award show this season, and it appears the practice will be going global. A month after big-name Hollywood players coordinated to wear black to the Golden Globes in support of the Time’s Up initiative, women are reportedly…
Read moreThere will be another form of red-carpet protest at the next big awards show this season: musicians, producers, and managers at the 2018 Grammys are expected to wear white roses pinned to their outfits a way to show support for the Time’s Up movement, according toBillboard. Led by Meg Harkins and Karen Rait, two music…
Read moreTo call last night’s Golden Globes ceremony powerful would be an understatement. Just six days after some of Hollywood’s most influential women launched Time’s Up, an organization dedicated to ending gender imbalance and sexual harassment in the workplace, the entertainment industry at large gathered for the annual Globes show—and it was unlike any previous year.…
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