Glamour Magazine has stripped Linda Fairstein of her 1993 Woman of the Year award. Fairstein was the main prosecutor on the Central Park 5 case.
The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Samantha Barry wrote an open letter stating, “Unequivocally, Glamour would not bestow this honor on her today. She received the award in 1993, before the full injustices in this case were brought to light. Though the convictions were later vacated and the men received a settlement from the City of New York, the damage caused is immeasurable.” The letter continued, “Glamour’s Women of the Year awards should reflect our culture, the values of our brand, and our audience. We remain committed to being thoughtful and purposeful about whom we choose to celebrate, and in this case, the lens of history has shown us that we got it wrong.”
This rebuke comes a few days after Fairstein deleted her social media accounts and stepped down from several nonprofit organizations. In fact, many complained that Glamour took too long to take away the award, and only did so when pressure to got too high. Netflix has recently released the miniseries When They See Us, which focuses on those five teens and the story of the case.
YouTube will be removing thousands of videos that either promote supremacy or deny well-documented tragedies such as the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook school shooting.
The company announced in a blog post, “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.
This ban is coming only a few months after Facebook said that it was banning white nationalist content from its site, which was in response to the terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand.
According to CNN, YouTube has been criticized for allowing videos that spread conspiracies, information, and radical views, and then recommending similar content to viewers of them. Even those who were watching mainstream, less harmful, news videos were recommended those extreme videos.
What frightens me most about YouTube’s format is what I mentioned in the last paragraph. I imagine some viewers of mainstream news YouTube videos are rather uneducated about current and will be impressionable enough to believe extreme views because they won’t know enough to refute them. This ban was definitely a step in the right direction.
Danielle Bregoli, whose stage name is Bhad Bhabie, was hospitalized Monday morning due to intense stomach pains, according to TMZ.
The rapper felt sick as she was boarding a plane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida headed to Los Angeles, California. Her stomach pain worsened to the point that Bregoli needed to make a decision. Eventually Bregoli told the pilot that she needed to exit the plane, and her security team took her to a nearby hospital.
According to the reports, Bregoli had been experiencing painful cramps the previous few days and tried to endure the pain. Fans reported that she looked “irritated” and “not happy” at the airport. As the pain worsened, she definitely made the right decision to leave the plane, in order to avoid the danger of a medical emergency mid-flight.
Since the various stomach tests taken by the hospital came back negative, it is still unclear what caused Bregoli’s pain. Doctors urged her to rest, and she will fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday.
It’s an end of an era: Apple is officially shutting down iTunes. It announced three desktop apps that will be replacing the iconic music platform: Music, TV, and Podcasts. This format is similar to how it is on iPhones/iPads.
According to CNN Business, a spokesperson at Apple said that all previous purchases and libraries will remain in these new three apps. This shutdown of iTunes doesn’t come as much of a surprise, because Apple has been pushing users more to its popular streaming service Apple Music.
Apple has been making other moves as well. At its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California, the company revealed iOS 13, which features a “dark mode”, new Siri features, and a brand new Mac laptop.
Let us know what you think about Apple’s recent decisions in the comments.
For those that couldn’t wait for a glimpse at Beyoncé’s role in the upcoming Lion King remake, myself included, our wait has ended. Disney released a new trailer, “Come Home”, that features Beyoncé voicing the role of Nala.
The movie’s cast is chock full of other celebrities including Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Eric Andre, John Oliver, and more. The Lion King is coming to theaters July 19th.
Let us know what you think of this glimpse of Beyoncé’s performance and the movie in general in the comments.
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