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For the uninitiated, the release of “Scary Movie” back in July 2000, which starred Regina Hall, Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Carmen Electra, and a host of others, was just a movie starring the Wayans brothers. For those in the know, it was actually a franchise started by Marlon and Shawn and directed by the eldest Wayans brother, Keenan Ivory Wayans. Keenan started the family business with his seminal variety television comedy series, “In Living Color” which debuted on the Fox network on April 15, 1990.
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Atlanta Black Star, Marlon has stated that, although they started and starred in the first two movies in the franchise, it was taken away from them from the film’s distributors. Negotiations between them and Miramax Films’ Dimension Films didn’t go well and, according to Marlon, “they snatched it” from the Wayans.
Atlanta Water Boys: Survival, Money, and Violence … Is There a Resolution?
The Atlanta water boys are the young men mostly teens who are often seen off some interstate exits around Georgia’s capital city selling bottled water. The issue of the Atlanta water boys has gained a lot of attention recently online and among political officials in Atlanta. Although the intent of the young men is to make a living wage, there have been various altercations that turned dangerous for the water boys and motorists.
Atlanta City Councilman Howard Shook expressed empathy for life circumstances that may be driving the teens to take this type of business route, but he also voiced concerns with the level of danger and violence their methods present to the community. “I think most of them are well-intended and trying to earn some income, but we have had kids clipped by cars, we’ve had water boys shot at, we’ve had customers shot at, we’ve had water boys shoot at other water boys, we’
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A hospital is owning up to its wrongdoing but claiming it had nothing to do with the death of a Black doctor who was suffering from COVID-19.
Dr. Susan Moore was admitted to the Indiana University Health North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, on Nov. 29 after testing positive for COVID. Within days of her hospitalization, Moore complained about the doctors not listening to her pleas to receive Remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been used to treat COVID-19,
Atlanta Black Star reports.
At the time, Moore said the white physician bypassed her comments of being in pain and even threatened to discharge her. “I was crushed,” she said in a Facebook video. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.”