harvey weinstein
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Drake Plans to Take Time Off to Do Movies … but Not With Harvey Weinstein
If you find yourself going through whine withdrawals or suddenly fiending for singsongy rap songs lamenting lost love in a monotone drone that makes your insides feel like they’re filled with lukewarm tap water from the bathroom faucet, you might be out of luck. Drake’s going on hiatus for a while. In a new interview…
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Watch: Gabrielle Union Gets Candid About Her Own Rape
As he raped me, I began to hover over myself. I could see the whole room. I looked at that poor crying girl as she was being raped and thought, “Things like this happen to bad people. Things like this don’t happen to people like me.” My psyche, my body, my soul, simply could not…
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Fox News Pulls Ads Urging Impeachment
Network Cites Viewers’ ‘Strong Negative Reaction’ Leaks Show How Multinationals Make Poor Poorer Alarm Over Abrupt Closing of 7 Local News Sites Journalists Reach for Words in Latest Mass Shooting Teen Vogue to End Print Run at Its Most ‘Woke’ Paper: Photos of Firefighters Fired Over Noose Stay Weinstein Tracked Journalists Trying to Expose Him…
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We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?
I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The local news was beginning to feel like trauma porn and was much too close to home. The purge had been a healthy choice—that is, until national news infiltrated my timeline, the Twitterverse and…
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Kevin Spacey and the Damage Done
By now, we’ve all heard about Anthony Rapp’s allegations of sexual assault by Kevin Spacey when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Waking up in the middle of the night to the revelation of Rapp’s story and Spacey’s response felt like a punch in the gut because it doesn’t just happen in Hollywood. As…
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The Culture of Male Silence: Men Treat Sexual Assault Like America Treats White Supremacy
I am not a religious man by any measure, but there are universal truths to which I adhere. I believe that love is a byproduct of love. I believe that hate made love to an orange, had a petty-ass baby, and that’s how we got the grapefruit. I believe that cats were put on earth…
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Betsy DeVos, Our Educational System Helps Produce Harvey Weinsteins and We Need to Change That
Editor’s note: Once a month, the National Interest column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase educational opportunities for black youths. The New York Times’ explosive revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s three-decades-long career of sexual assault laid bare the prevalence of rape culture in our society. Sexism is a national problem…
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Being Insecure in Harvey Weinstein’s World: On Mayim Bialik, Rape and Concern-Trolling
Over the past two weeks on the heels of the Harvey Weinstein travesty, I’ve noticed a trend. And I have a question and am in need of an answer. Why is that some white women are incapable of focusing on a topic without shitting on someone else? I say this because I thought I was…
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Harvey Weinstein Says He Remembers Things Differently From Lupita Nyong’o
Updated Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, 9:54 p.m. EDT: Harvey Weinstein says that his recollection of events differs from that of actress Lupita Nyong’o. In a statement issued to E! News, a spokesman for Weinstein said, “Mr. Weinstein has a different recollection of the events, but believes Lupita is a brilliant actress and a major force…
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Jill Scott Says She Had a Nasty Moment With Harvey Weinstein, Too
At this point, who hasn’t Harvey Weinstein fucked with? It might just be easier to keep track of that list of women, because the list of women who say they’ve had negative interactions with him continues to grow by the hour. It’s like the world’s sickest game of bingo. Singer-actress Jill Scott wrote on Twitter…