Amy Pascal, chairperson of the Motion Pictures Group of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is gone. Film producer Scott Rudin apologized profusely and has kept a deliberate low to no public profile. Both took much-deserved heat in December when a stack of hacked leaked emails caught them taking silly and ugly racial digs, barbs and shots at Read More…
One day in late February 1965, nearly 30 university students rode into a small, segregated town looking to make trouble. For in this community, people of color were served last, forced to sit in the front row at theaters and forbidden to swim in public pools or try on apparel at clothing stores. As part Read More…
Several days before Inglewood city officials announced that they had more than enough signatures to qualify a ballot initiative to approve a new football stadium in the city, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon stood before a bank of microphones in St. Louis. Nixon made it clear that state and city officials would do whatever it takes Read More…
