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Plans continue to open more pop-up vaccine sites in LAs high-need areas despite halt of J&J vaccine COVID-19 vaccination pop-up site in Echo Park LOS ANGELES - As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigates reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots connected to the Johnson&Johnson vaccine, the local effort to continue prioritizing low-income and minority neighborhoods is not facing any major disruptions.  Los Angeles County this week received an allocation of 323,470 doses ...

Sharon Stone with Anderson Cooper Writers Bloc presents an evening with actress Sharon Stone who discusses her book, The Beauty of Living Twice, with CNNs Anderson Cooper. In this memoir, Stone discusses her triumphs and disappointments, her struggle to recover from a massive stroke and her charity work for HIV/AIDS causes and poverty and education in Africa. Attendees are asked to support authors and local bookstores by preordering a copy of The Beauty of Living Twice from Skylight Books. Si...

Lynne Haze Amanda Gorman has a twin sister named Gabrielle.  Gabrielle is a 2020 graduate of UCLA’s School of Film & Television.  She is a filmmaker.  In 2019 she directed a short documentary called  Mr.Ewing.  In 2015 she created and directed  Dear America.  She is a former intern at Complex magazine.  She was the Interim Executive Director at Ava DuVernay’s  foundation, Array Alliance in February 2018.

The film industry’s systemic struggles with hiring non-white actors have been well documented, but director Ava DuVernay knows that what’s in front of the camera is only half the battle. It’s important that attention be paid to diversity efforts on film crews, as well. Through her nonprofit company Array Alliance, DuVernay has created a diversity database that studios like Warner Bros., Disney, Netflix, and Sony have invested in. The aim is to widen the insular circles that form in the p...

To hear Peter Roth tell it, friends, including J.J. Abrams, had been insisting he needed to know Ava DuVernay long before their first meeting. So when the longtime Warner Bros. TV executive found himself across from the filmmaker at the Los Angeles offices of Oprah Winfrey’s cable network, OWN, to discuss collaborating on DuVernay’s Louisiana-set television drama “Queen Sugar,” the creative connection, as they say, was instant. “I’ve never had the experience of being so closely con...