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BLACK AMERICA AND COVID-19 - Crisis or... :
From
TheVox: (May 8th) - Social distancing arrests target people of color.
From
YahooNews: A tale of two parks: Enjoying the sun in wealthy Manhattan, social distancing under police scrutiny in the Bronx
From
YahooGMA: (4/28) -
Rana Zoe Mungin, a 30-year-old teacher from Brooklyn, died on Monday, April 27th for COVID-19. She had twice been denied a test for the coronavirus after showing symptoms. Her family and friends blame racial disparity in the health care system.
From
RSNWashPost: How COVID-19 is a perfect storm for Black Americans.
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From
NBCNews: Because COVID-19 is NOT killing enough black people fast enough for some people...
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker, was killed in a botched police raid on the part of the Louisville Metro Police Department.
From
ABCNews: This article has a picture of the three Klansmen... I mean Louiville police officers who slaughtered Breonna Taylor.
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From
NewYorkTimes: Because COVID-19 isn't killing enough black people fast enough for some people... a timeline in the killing of
Ahmaud Arbery.
From
YahooSports: NBA superstar and champion, LeBron James, speaks on the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. "We're literally hunted everyday," James says.
From
YahooSports: NFL champion and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback,
Tom Brady, signs letter on Ahmaud Arbery.
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From
USAToday: Because COVID-19 isn't killing enough black people fast enough for some people...
Dreasjon "Sean" Reed was killed by the Indianapolis Metro Police Department on May 7th.
From
TMZ: Cops joke about "closed casket" funeral after killing Sean Reed.
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEWS:
From
CDC: The Centers for Disease Control has a "COVID Data Tracker."
From
YahooNews: Why does COVID-19 kill some people and hardly affects others?
From
YahooNews: Yahoo has a dedicated page of links updating news about COVID-19.
From
Deadline: The news site "Deadline" has a dedicated page for news about coronavirus and the film, TV, and entertainment industries.
From
TheNewYorker: The venerable magazine has a dedicate COVID-19 page free to all readers.
From
YahooNews: Re: the federal government's response to COVID-19: What if the most important election of our lifetime was the last one - 2016?
From
YahooLife: What is "happy hypoxia?" And do you have this COVID-19 symptom?
From
JuanCole: Remeber when President Donald went crazy and suggested that we
ingest household cleaning supplies and UV light to fight COVID-19. Here is the video and commentary from Juan Cole.
From
RSN: Former U.S. Secretary of Labor (under President Bill Clinton),
Robert Reich, list the new "class divides" with their inequalities that he says the COVID-19 pandemic has created.
From
Grist: The scientists that saw coronavirus coming are hunting for the next pandemic.
From
YahooNews: Senate majority leader,
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Republican of Kentucky) blames former President Obama for current President Donald's piss-poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 OBIT:
From
CNN: Entertainer and magician,
Roy Horn, has died at the age of 75, May 8, 2020 of complications of COVID-19. Horn was best known as one-half of the Las Vegas animal and magic act, "Siegfried & Roy," with his partner Seigfried Fischbacher.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
MOVIES - From
Deadline: Oscar-winner
Danny Boyle is set to direct
Micheal B. Jordan in the film, "
Methuselah," which is based on the Biblical character.
MOVIES - From
Deadline: Warner Bros. is remaking director
Blake Edwards' 1979 comedy, "
10," which originally starred Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, and Bo Derek.
MOVIES - From
Variety:
Universal Pictures has tapped
Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me By Your Name") to direct its reboot of the film "
Scarface."
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen wrote the latest version of the script.
DISNEY - From
Variety: Disney+ is in the early stages of developing the "Percy Jackson" book series as a live-action series. Fox previously produced two live-action films based on the books by Rick Riordan.
MOVIES - From
CNN:
Russell Crowe's thriller, "
Unhinged," gets a
July 1st, 2020 release date. This may make it the first new film to arrive in movie theaters during the pandemic.
DISNEY - From
Deadline: Disney+ will stream a filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, "Hamilton." beginning
July 3, 2020. Director Tommy Kail, who also directed the musical, comprised the film version by shooting three live performances of the musical. Disney paid $75 million for the worldwide rights to the movie.
From
GQ:
Robert Pattinson shot his own cover for the latest "GQ" magazine and its "A Dispatch from Isolation" interview with him. He talks about a number of things including his role in "The Batman" and his struggle to describe the plot of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet."
From
THR: For its Fall 2020 schedule, Fox is picking on "
L.A.'s Finest," a scripted original series for cable provider, Spectrum.
From
Deadline:
Ryan Murphy is working on an anthology spinoff of his hit FX series, "American Horror Story." It will be titles "American Horror Stories."
From
Variety: There will be no Cannes Film Festival this year - even in the fall.
From
Deadline: Not even a basket of horrid "X-Men" can stop writer-producer Simon Kinberg's career trajectory. Netflix has picked up his heist spec script, "Here Comes the Flood," for deal in the mid-7 figures.
From
Deadline: Kal Penn talks about CBS' 2020-2021 TV sequel to the 1991 Oscar-winning film, "Silence of the Lambs."
From
Deadline: CBS has picked up three new series for next season:
The Equalizer reboot starring
Queen Latifah; "Silence of the Lambs," sequel "Clarice," starring Rebecca Breeds; and the Chuck Lorre-Marco Pennette multi-camera comedy, "B Positive," headlined by Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford.
OBITS:
From
Deadline: Veteran film and television character actor,
Fred Willard, has died at the age of 86, Friday, May 15, 2020. Willard was known for playing a long list of roles in various comedic films ("Best in Show" and "How High" to name a few) and television series ("Fernwood 2 Night" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" to name a few). On IMDb, Willard has 311 credits. He will be seen posthumously in the upcoming Netflix comedy, "Space Force," with Steve Carell.
From
THR: The comedian and actor,
Jerry Stiller, has died at the age of 92, Monday, May 11, 2020. He is best known for TV series. First is for the recurring role of "George Costanza's" father, "Frank," on the NBC series, "Seinfeld" (1989-1998), from 1993 to 1998. The second role is that of series regular, "Arthur Spooner," on CBS' "The King of Queens" (1998 to 2007). Decades ago, Stiller was best known for being part of the comedy team of Stiller and Meara with the late Ann Meara, who would become his wife. The couple had two children, actor and filmmaker, Ben Stiller, and
From
Essence: Noted R&B and soul singer,
Betty Wright, has died at the age of 66, Sunday, May 10, 2020. Noted for her use of the "whistle register," Wright had a number of hit songs. His signature single was "Clean Up Woman" (1974), a top 10 hit on "Billboard" magazine's "Hot 100" and "R&B" charts. In 1975, she had a hit with what is called a "proto-disco" song, "Where is the Love?" She won a "Best R&B Song" Grammy Award for composing the song with Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of "KC & the Sunshine Band." Wright was also a prolific and prominent background vocalist who performed on recordings for a number of popular recording artists, including Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, and David Byrne, to name a few.
From
RollingStone: One of the founding fathers of rock and roll music,
Little Richard, has died at the age of 87, Saturday, May 9, 2020. He combined blues and gospel music to create a thrilling new sound, and his flamboyant and gender-bending persona helped to create the sound and spirit of a new art form, rock and roll or rock 'n' roll music. His best known recordings included "Tutti Frutti" (1955), "Long Tall Song" (1956), and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" (1958). In 1986, Little Richard was among the first inductees of the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
From
RollingStone: Little Richard wrote this tribute to himself in 2010 for "Rolling Stone's" "100 Greatest Artists" issue.