never forget these classics!!!
- Stereotypes, accents and nameless “foreign” characters are all the reality when looking for work as a South Asian actor.
- On Tuesday, actor Kal Penn tweeted out a series of snapshots from scripts that he’d auditioned for in the past, most of which included racist caricatures of South Asian culture.
- The first screenshot showed a call for a “Gandhi Lookalike,” “Snake Charmers” and “Fire Eaters.” Read more. (3/15/2017 1:15 PM)
Source: mic.com
- Oklahoma police have recommended prostitution charges against state Sen. Ralph Shortey, an early backer of President Donald Trump’s election campaign, according to multiple media reports. Shortey allegedly checked into a Motel 8 in Moore, Oklahoma, alongside an underage boy shortly after midnight on March 9.
- Police arrived 30 minutes later, Oklahoma City Hearst affiliate KOCO-5 reported.
- The charges recommended by police include soliciting prostitution of a minor; prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church; and transporting for the purpose of prostitution, KOCO-5 reported. Read more. (3/15/2017 5:50 PM)
Source: mic.com
recovery-equals-happiness-deact
Today is Holi also know as the Festival of Colour.
Holi is a festival celebrated in north India. It marks the coming of Spring, usually in March.Some families hold religious ceremonies, but for many Holi is more a time for fun.
Bonfires are lit and roasting grains, pop corn, coconut and chick peas are thrown on by Hindu families
The next day, people of all ages go into the streets for fun and paint-throwing. Everyone gets involved throwing powder paint in the air and coloured water.
Happy Holi everyone!!
- Goodfellas Pizzeria in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood fired its bouncer after investigating a disturbing story about a gay couple’s recent visit. The couple told WLWT that a Goodfellas bouncer threatened to kick them out for kissing and holding hands.
- Bobby Slavens said he and his friends were showing IDs to enter Goodfellas, at which point the bouncer observed Slavens and his fiancé and approached the couple.
- “The bouncer came to us and said, ‘Hey, you guys need to stop that or you are going to get kicked out,’” Slavens said. “We were dumbfounded.”
- Slavens and his partner left without ordering pizza and later wrote about the incident on Facebook. A local reporter captured the posts via screenshot. In the post, Slavens said that as he turned to leave, he heard the bouncer say, “You better get used to this, this is Trump’s America.” Read more (3/14/17 3:23 PM)
Source: bit.ly
- An Idaho state judicial council is set to investigate judge Randy Stoker.
- Stoker sentenced 19-year-old former high school football player John R.K. Howard to probation in December 2016 after he submitted an Alford plea for allegedly using a coat hanger to sexually assault his black teammate with mental disabilities, the Idaho State Journal reported.
- Stoker sentenced Howard, the only person charged criminally as an adult, to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service after several witnesses confirmed Howard kicked a coat hanger into the rectum of a black teammate with mental disabilities.
- A Change.org petition from Caldwell teacher Monica Ryan that received over 175,000 signatures spurred the investigation. Read more (3/14/17 4:08 PM)
Source: bit.ly
the-movemnt-deactivated20170912
“Our English language is a big part of it. It’s a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone, globally, freedom went with it,” Rep. Steve King said on CNN on Monday
The idea that freedom accompanies English everywhere is demonstrably false, as former subjects of the British Empire can attest. In fact, a bulk of modern history was shaped by the cultural and military violence and slavery that followed the English language as it traversed the globe — from brutal British colonial rule in Africa and Asia, to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to slavery in the U.S. and the massacre and forced assimilation of Native Americans.
— Zak Cheney Rice, Steve King is having a hard time pretending he’s not a white supremacist
Source: bit.ly
the-movemnt-deactivated20170912
Trying to predict Frank Ocean’s movements these days is like trying to tie a bell on Waldo, or getting the jump on Carmen Sandiego. It’s been like this for four years, ever since Ocean began traveling the world to put together his last doubleheader of Endless and Blonde. However, despite the silence then, fans knew the general outcome: There would be an album filled with something R&B-like, and it would be dope.
Nowadays, we have no such sign posts. Ocean could come from anywhere at anytime with any kind of music. The freedom is exhilarating.
Ocean’s “Chanel” release Friday restarted the intrigue. No advance notice, no pomp, no circumstance — he simply played it during the second episode of his Blonde radio show on Apple Music.
Soon after, it popped up on the rest of the major streaming platforms, for his audience’s health and education. It didn’t “break the internet,” as surprises have been doing since Beyoncé’s self-titled — but it did something arguably more important. It signaled to the world that Ocean doesn’t intend to disappear again, he’s found a way to maintain his mystery and continue getting the mainstream to care about music that’s more multidimensional and mystifying than anything it’s exhibited an appetite for in the past. Read more (3/13/17 5:29 PM)
follow @the-movemnt
Source: bit.ly
the-movemnt-deactivated20170912
Legal adviser Stella Tsantekidou spoke out for immigrant rights and compassion at a protest in London’s Parliament Square on Monday.
Source: youtu.be
the-movemnt-deactivated20170912
- According to a new study from the American Psychological Association, people tend to perceive black men as larger and more dangerous than white men of the same size.
- In a series of experiments, the researchers showed over 950 online black and nonblack U.S. participants a series of color photographs of the faces of white and black men who were of equal height and weight.
- Participants then had to guess the height, weight and muscularity of the pictured subjects. Researchers found that the estimates were consistently biased.
- All participants saw black men as larger, stronger and more muscular than white men, even though they were the same.
- However, nonblack participants perceived black men to be more capable of causing harm in a fictional fight scenario, and, even more disquieting, that police would be more justified in using force to subdue the black men — even if they were unarmed.
- That black men cannot even be perceived as who they actually are is a factor, according to researchers, in America’s police brutality epidemic. Read more (3/13/17 12:16 PM)
follow @the-movemnt
Source: bit.ly
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials handcuffed Democratic Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez after he refused to leave ICE’s Chicago offices on Monday.
- Gutierrez was at the office with a group of lawmakers, community activists and immigration lawyers for a meeting with ICE about recent deportation cases.
- When the meeting concluded, Gutierrez and seven others felt that officials had not yet answered some of their most pressing questions and decided to stay until they did. Read more (3/14/17 9:12 PM)
Source: bit.ly
- A new document on the effects of the GOP’s proposed health care bill has emerged from the White House, forecasting even deeper cuts in coverage than Monday’s Congressional Budget Office report.
- Whereas the CBO report predicts 24 million people would lose their insurance by 2026 under the legislation, the White House analysis predicts 26 million, bringing the total of uninsured people in the United States up to 54 million by 2026. Read more (3/14/17 6:32 AM)
- Sen. Bernie Sanders, was at the front of the line to criticize the Republican plan to repeal and replace the ACA Monday.
- “Throwing 24 million Americans off of health insurance, raising premiums for older low-income Americans, defunding Planned Parenthood and giving $275 billion in tax breaks to the top 2% is a disgusting and immoral proposal,” Sanders said in a statement. Read more (3/13/17 10 PM)
Source: bit.ly