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Colman Domingo felt "great weight and responsibility" on the film 'Rustin'. The 54-year-old actor plays civil rights activist Bayard Rustin – who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others to organise the historic 1963 March on Washington – in the biopic and felt under pressure to bring the relatively unknown historical figure to life in the picture, which is produced by former US President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama's company Higher Ground. In conversation with Jacob Elordi for Variety's 'Actors on Actors' series, Colman said: "I thought it was such a travesty that we didn't know ...
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Chris Rock is set to direct a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. The 58-year-old comedian and actor is in final talks to helm and produce the new movie about the celebrated civil rights campaigner that also has Steven Spielberg involved as an executive producer. Universal Pictures is backing the picture after optioning the rights to Jonathan Eig's biography 'King: A Life'. The book has been described as the definitive biography of the civil rights leader - who was assassinated in 1968 - and uses new FBI information and hundreds of interviews to portray King as a "courageous but emotionally trouble...
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Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. The music icon passed away at his home in the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday (25.04.23) after suffering congestive heart failure, a spokesperson has told the New York Times newspaper. The chart-topping star was born in the Big Apple in 1927, but he spent eight years of his childhood in Jamaica, where his parents were from. Belafonte subsequently returned to the US and he joined the navy at the age of 17, after struggling with dyslexia during his school years. He returned home at the end of World War Two and eventually turned his focus towards...
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Julia Roberts says the late Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth. The actress, 55, revealed the couple made the gesture as her parents couldn’t afford the fee, and said her mum and dad befriended the Kings while living in Atlanta running a theatre school. She told Gayle King, in a clip showing her in conversation with the journalist last month that has now been shared online by a fan: “One day Coretta called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her...
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Oprah Winfrey says Queen Elizabeth was “the standard” for public service. The veteran broadcaster has been dubbed the 'Queen of All Media' and she insisted the late monarch - who died last Thursday (08.09.22) aged 96 - was the "real" queen who made incredible sacrifices over the years in the name of duty. The 68-year-old star told 'Access Hollywood': “You know, everybody gets called the queen; there really was one. And she is the standard for all the rest of us, whoever get called queens, and the reason she was is because of her service. “Martin Luther King said that it is the greatest offerin...
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NBA icon Bill Russell has died aged 88. The Boston Celtics veteran racked up 11 titles with the team from 1956 and 1969 and won an Olympic gold medal in Melbourne with the United States in 1956. His two NCAA titles at San Francisco in 1955 and ’56 paved the way for him to become a five-time NBA MVP and 12-time All-Star. His family said in a statement on Sunday (31.07.22): “It is with a very heavy heart we would like to pass along to all of Bill’s friends, fans and followers: Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today at age 88, with his wife...
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Kerry Washington has paid tribute to Rosa Parks and urged people to "continue the fight". The former 'Scandal' actress recreated civil rights activist's 1956 mugshot on Instagram to celebrated Black History Month as she shared a photo of herself alongside the snap taken of Parks after she was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in opposition to racial segregation in the southern states of America. In the caption of the black and white edit - complete with matching outfits and booking numbers - the 45-year-old actress wrote: “Back with som...
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