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‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism

Wicked co-star said reactions to the incident, which included suggestions she was Grande’s ‘bodyguard’, reflect an insidious view of Black womenWicked star Cynthia Erivo has said that reactions to the incident at the Singapore premiere of Wicked: For Good, in which she stepped in to fend off a red-carpet invader who grabbed co-star Ariana Grande, revealed “the insidious nature of how we view Black women” and put her off campaigning for Oscars.In an interview with Variety, Erivo said that she...

‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism

Cynthia Erivo stated that the public reaction to an incident at the Singapore premiere of *Wicked: For Good*, where she intervened to protect Ariana Grande from an invader, revealed harmful views towards Black women. Erivo felt that suggestions she was merely Grande's 'bodyguard' reflected an insidious perception of Black women. This experience has subsequently discouraged her from campaigning for the Oscars.

‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism

‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?

With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?In a video posted to TikTok, where Katie Whitney has 2.5 million followers, she says to camera, bluntly: “This video is for Cynthia Erivo.

North Carolina mountain community braces for hurricane season two years after Helene's brutal impact

As hurricane season approaches, people in the mountain communities of Western North Carolina are bracing for any impacts nearly two years after Hurricane Helene unleashed its wrath on the region. Residents say they're "traumatized" after Hurricane Helene's brutal attack, which claimed over one hundred lives and tore thousands of homes and businesses to pieces. "We still have nightmares, flashbacks," said Jackie Fenstermacher, while sitting next to her sister Cynthia Dunn in Fairview, North...

‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?

With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?In a video posted to TikTok, where Katie Whitney has 2.5 million followers, she says to camera, bluntly: “This video is for Cynthia Erivo.

Book Dedications

To my sister, Dr. Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud. I write your name in full, because that is how it appeared on the white body bag that held your remains soon after the bomb was dropped. Dedications A random assortment of book dedications.

Inside the fallout of the SJSU volleyball scandal: ‘This is an obvious problem’

Employees across the entire California State University System (CSU) came back from lunch to an email on March 6, announcing that their employer was suing President Donald Trump's Department of Education. It was happening because San Jose State University (SJSU) had a transgender volleyball player on its women’s team for three years, allegedly didn’t tell multiple female teammates that the player was male, and then refused to accept the U.S. Department of Education findings that determined...

‘Pollute us and we’ll sue you’: The quest to give Europe’s lakes and forests legal rights

Should a lake be allowed to hire its own lawyer and sue a company? It may sound unlikely, but that’s the goal of a group of European conservationists. A newly-registered European Citizens’ Initiative petition calls on the European Union to come up with legislation that would let polluted rivers or deforested woodlands “take” their polluters to court, giving natural bodies legal rights akin to those of a company.

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler described the relationship between space and matter in two sentences: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move.