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This weekâs TV: The Oscars at long last, Earth Day shows, and a new Ed Helms comedy
By Matthew Gilbert Globe Staff,Updated April 19, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Ed Helms as Nathan Rutherford in Peacock s Rutherford Falls. Peacock/Colleen Hayes/Peacock
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BACK-PATTING, AT SIX FEET APART
After a two-month delay,
the Oscars will finally air this coming Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC. The awards season is FINALLY coming to an end. Will people watch? The ratings for other awards shows have plummeted during the pandemic, with the Golden Globes down a whopping 60 percent. That doesnât bode well for the Oscars telecast, especially when you consider that its viewership was already falling fast, dropping 44 percent between 2014 and 2020.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is scheduled for open-heart surgery
April 16, 2021
Look what 39 years of prison have done to Mumia Abu Jamal! The first photo, of a healthy and handsome Mumia, was taken while he was still on death row. The second shows him in 2012, shortly after his release to general population, and in the third, we see the steep decline in his health in the nine years since then. Medical neglect is a torturer and a killer.
Racism remains the greatest medical threat to Mumia’s health
by Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, consulting physician for Mumia Abu-Jamal
(A new Medical Professionals for Mumia petition co-written by Dr. Alvarez is reprinted at the bottom of this article. Read the February 1982 article “A Christmas Cage,“ Mumia Abu-Jamal’s personal account of his arrest, hospitalization, and imprisonment.)
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Johanna Fernández, a longtime advocate and supporter of Abu-Jamal, said that there are also concerns about the lack of information being provided to Abu-Jamal’s closest allies, and that it went against his right as a patient that he was unable to contact his loved ones for days after his hospitalization.
“Think about the barbarism of a system that feels there is no right of a prisoner that the state must respect,” said Fernández, a history professor at Baruch College in New York.
Alvarez, Abu-Jamal’s chosen physician, has had little access to Abu-Jamal’s current medical team and has not been informed regarding his patient’s health and the steps being taken to treat him. During Thursday’s press conference, Alvarez said he believes Abu-Jamal will undergo open heart surgery to treat his clogged arteries, but he added that demands for more information regarding his treatment have gone unmet.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner joins us to discuss the promise and peril of institutional reform and how he built a coalition of voters who
Man charged with ethnic intimidation, assault in alleged attack on Asian man in Chinatown
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Attacks against Asian Americans grow in Philadelphia
The executive director of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation and the leader of Action for Asians joined Good Day Philadelphia to talk about the rising Anti-Asian attacks in the city and how reporting these attacks can help.
CHINATOWN - Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has brought a number of charges, including ethnic intimidation, against a man accused of attacking an Asian-American man in Chinatown last week.
Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department responded to the 300 block of North 10th Street just before 8 p.m. Tuesday when they received several calls about someone attacking an Asian man and using racial slurs.