19 Black Musicians to Support on Bandcamp Today and Every Day

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Todays music landscape wouldnt exist without black performers. Singers like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Mama Thornton built rock-and-roll music. Folk music often borrowed from gospel and soul. Not only that, the site committed to continue the donations every Juneteenth hereafter. Here are 18 black artists and one compilation across all genres to support on Bandcamp today and every day....

June 19, 2020 · 2 min · 243 words · Stephen Walls

Alicia Keys Drops Emotional Ballad ‘Perfect Way To Die’ Inspired by Police Brutality

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I have been following its lead. It has led me to the song A Perfect Way to Die. The song title is so powerful and heartbreaking because WE are heartbroken by so many who have died unjustly. The emotional song is written from the perspective of a mother whos lost her son to police violence....

June 19, 2020 · 1 min · 79 words · Cynthia Rubio

AMC To Reopen 75% of its Movie Theaters in July, Will Require Patrons to Wear Masks After All

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. At AMC Theatres, we think it is absolutely crucial that we listen to our guests. Yes, you read that right. 450 movie theaters will be opening their doors in the less than a month. And thats not all. AMC is not requiring that movie theatergoers wear masks in regions where masks are not required by law....

June 19, 2020 · 1 min · 149 words · Jay Peterson

Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins Among 1,000 Black Artists for Freedom Demanding Change in Entertainment

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Culture alone cannot fix systemic racism,the letter reads. But culture is strongly connected to racisms material effects, and the violence against us. We do not wish merely to modify or alleviate this racist culture. We aim to eliminate it. So, how can creators prioritize anti-racism in their work? Read their statement, and its lengthy list of signees, inits entirety here....

June 19, 2020 · 1 min · 78 words · Kenneth Phillips

High Culture Brought Low

The pandemic silenced our symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A couple of days later, it did. Now, as New York reawakens, the performing-arts world is desperate for clues to its future. Ive never dealt with such a fluid and changeable situation, says New York Philharmonic president Deborah Borda....

June 19, 2020 · 3 min · 627 words · Samantha Kelley

John Legend Drops New AlbumBigger Love,Chrissy Teigen Already Over One of the Songs

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. John Legend knows what dads want and its new music. She tweeted, Its out!!!!! Favorite songs: Wild, U move, I Move and Focused. Kids love I Do so Ive had to listen to it over 4000 times. I do not love it anymore. So Chrissy says I Dont to I Do, but other than that she seems to be a fan....

June 19, 2020 · 1 min · 109 words · John Thompson

Miss JuneteenthIs a Gently Beautiful Film Worth Celebrating

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres no dialogue in this brief moment. Instead, Beharie shows us what we need to know. The stakes in some ways may seem low. Will Kai win the pageant? Will the relationship between Kai and Turquoise break under the strain of the complications between them? Will Turquoise choose love with the men before her or a different track entirely?...

June 19, 2020 · 2 min · 215 words · Megan Allen

Nicole Beharie on Healing fromSleepy Hollowand the Simple Beauty ofMiss Juneteenth

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Miss Juneteenth, the debut feature of writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples, is a film of simple beauty. By far, the reason to watch the film is Nicole Beharies anchoring performance as Turquoise. Memorable is her grace in films like42and TV episodes likeBlack Mirrors Striking Vipers. She also opened up about her experience makingSleepy Hollowand navigating Hollywood as a Black actress....

June 19, 2020 · 5 min · 966 words · Cynthia Smith

RuPaul’s Drag Race All StarsRecap: Best Exotic MaRugold Hotel

RuPauls Drag Race All Stars Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Did you hear that sharp intake of breath? Luckily for all of us, that calamity does not come to pass. 500 times in lieu of a recap. But this episode does teach us a very important lesson: No one is safe! AsAll Stars 5s enfant terrible Miz Cracker points out, you could slay and get Manilad....

June 19, 2020 · 3 min · 474 words · Paul Oneill

The Last of Us Part IIPlays a Dark, Cynical Trick

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Last of Us Part IIis the worst video game Ive ever heard. And you would be right. However, likeThe Walking Dead, it isnt the afflicted that represent the real horror. The game does this in two ways. The most direct is by regularly presenting the player with situations where fighting is the only way forward....

June 19, 2020 · 2 min · 263 words · Heather Boyd

The PoliticianSeason-Premiere Recap: Shine Brighter

The Politician Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. But he was learning to have feelings, too. Second verse, same as the first. Thats not entirely fair. Want to make something utterly absurd yet still emotionally resonant? Hire Judith Light and Bette Midler, apparently. Despite that, its difficult to see New York State of Mind as anything but a regression. Is this really going to be my eternal question,who am I?...

June 19, 2020 · 2 min · 307 words · Steven Harris

We Cast a Shadowand 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My Head

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Either way, I wish you safety and solace. There are many similarities. People drive minivans to drop their kids off at progressive schools. But also, certain things are different. Tanning salons are outlawed. (Only one will be chosen.) The narrator has advantages: a big brain, beautiful family, expensive education. Then theres his son, Nigel, who was born with a troublesome birthmark on his eyelid....

June 19, 2020 · 2 min · 306 words · Nathaniel Hernandez

After All ThatDating Around,Gurki Basra Ended Up With the Show’s Director James Adolphus

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. After the date, I was upset and crying. He came up to me and gave me a hug, and checked on me on Instagram afterwards. Thats how he and I started talking. I didnt actually know he was going to be in that scene. The smile is genuine, and me smiling and being surprised is genuine, Basra said....

June 18, 2020 · 1 min · 83 words · Shannon Jones