The film, released on Disney+ in December, features renown actor-musician
Jamie Foxx voicing the film’s main character “Joe Gardner,” an aspiring jazz musician who is on a quest to live a life with more meaning. It s Pixar s first animated film with a Black main character.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, a white actor, voices the main character in the Danish-language version of the film. The move sparked backlash from scholars and advocates who highlighted the casting of a white actor to voice a Black character as a prime example of structural racism.
The criticism led to Kaas to release a statement.
Locals react to Vice President Kamala Harris making history
Local women are showing they re hopeful for the future in government By DeAndria Turner | January 20, 2021 at 6:53 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 6:55 PM
FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) - Kamala Harris is making history.
Some women say itâs inspirational, but there is still work to be done when it comes to women in government.
âKamala Harris election as a Vice President is just that⦠historic,â said Political Science Professor Lilia Alexander.
Alexander said Kamala Harris becoming the first female Vice President of the United States is a milestone in the nationâs history and in the Shoals.
US President Joe Biden has a Peloton bike. That raises security issues at the White House
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A Peloton, priced around $2,500 apiece have tablets attached, enabling riders to livestream or take on-demand classes and communicate with one another
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The last thing the CIA wants is the Russians and the Chinese peering or listening into the White House gymnasium. Last week, Popular Mechanics warned about the security risk under the headline “Why Joe Biden Can’t Bring His Peloton to the White House.”
WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden moves into the White House on Wednesday facing many weighty issues: a global pandemic. A crushing recession. Racial injustice. Right-wing extremism.
Obscure Oakland: The secrets of the sad little windmill on Telegraph Avenue
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A record-breaking wind storm couldn t even make the old blades spin.
The decrepit ornamental windmill on Telegraph Avenue, near the Oakland/Berkeley border, is now little more than a canvas for taggers. Some digging reveals, however, that its many former guises include a 1970s Black record store hangout, a lemonade stand and possibly an entry point to a lavish early 20th century amusement park that featured an opera house, roller coaster, grizzly bears and ostriches.
Every time I ve walked past the battered landmark on Telegraph and 60th, I ve hastily Googled What s up with that weird windmill? but beyond some evidence of its life since the 60s, discovering why it was actually built in the first place has proven tougher.