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Saturday, January 27, 2018
Cory Booker: Trump ‘doesn’t see himself as subject to the rule of law’
Jemele Hill Statement On leaving ESPN's 'SportsCenter'
Jemele Hill, the “SportsCenter” anchor who found herself in the middle of a political firefight last year after tweeting about President Trump, is leaving “SportsCenter” to work at The Undefeated, ESPN’s sub-site focused on race and culture. Sports Illustrated reported that the move is believed to be Hill’s decision. Read Hill's statement on her departure below:
Thursday, January 25, 2018
NAACP sues Homeland Security over Haiti immigration policy
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Get Out receives four Academy Award nominations
Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which has received praise for its performances and thought-provoking take on race in America, received four Academy Award nominations Tuesday, including one for best picture.
Peele made history becoming the first black director to receive nominations in the writing, directing, and producing categories for his first feature film.
Peele tweeted his gratitude to the fans that made the movie both a critical and commercial success:
Right now I’m just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to. You did this. Thank you. ✊🏾
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) January 23, 2018
Get Out was nominated for:
Best Picture
Directing: Jordan Peele
Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Kaluuya
Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Virginia Lt. governor protest honoring Confederate general
Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, the second African-American to serve in that role, stepped off the dais where he presides over the state Senate on Monday when Republicans moved to adjourn in memory of Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson.
“It’s a personal decision for me,” Fairfax said afterward. “There are people in Virginia history that I think it’s appropriate to memorialize and remember in that way, and others that I would have a difference of opinion on.”
Fairfax was going to do the same last Friday after learning about plans honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose birthday is a state holiday. In the mid-1980s, Virginia began marking Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday the same as Lee-Jackson-King Day. In 2000, Gov. Jim Gilmore called for separating them.
Fairfax said that when he was sworn into the statewide office on Jan. 13, he kept in his pocket a reproduction of a document freeing members of the Fairfax family in Virginia from slavery in 1798.
“I felt … in honor of my family and in honor of the journey that Virginia has taken and so many others have taken for progress, that I would prefer not to preside over those adjournment motions.”