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The Hollywood Reporter: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Megyn Kelly, Blackface and NBC’s “Hate Crime-Adjacent” Problem
Al Pereira/WireImage (Megyn Kelly) The network’s news division is complicit in the racism of its highly paid anchor, and yes, she should be fired, writes the NBA great and Hollywood Reporter cultural columnist. Most sentences...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Megyn Kelly, Blackface and NBC’s “Hate Crime-Adjacent” Problem
The network’s news division is complicit in the racism of its highly paid anchor, and yes, she should be fired, writes the NBA great and Hollywood Reporter cultural columnist. Most sentences that begin with “When...
‘Veronica Mars’: All There Is to Know About Season 4 on Hulu
OCTOBER 16, 2018 12:30pm PT by Rick Porter As Veronica (Kristen Bell) heads back to Neptune and gets involved in a new mystery, The Hollywood Reporter lays out all the details of the revival. Just when she...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Midterm Elections: Beware ‘Bachelor’ Nation at the Ballot Box
6:30 AM PDT 10/9/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Don't just blame Donald Trump for the current anti-intellectual threat to democracy, blame reality TV as voters "go with their hearts" instead of relying on research or reason, writes the...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Joins ‘iZombie’s’ Final Season
(Photo courtesy of: Twitter/imrosemciver Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rose McIver) The NBA legend and Hollywood Reporter columnist will play a Seattle councilman in the CW show's upcoming season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is stretching his acting muscles again...
The Hollywood Reporter: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the NFL, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ and the Summer Movie as Protest Song
6:00 AM PDT 8/14/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Amid Trump's national anthem rhetoric, Spike Lee's latest film and Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' reinforce satire as the preferred genre of the oppressed, writes the NBA Hall-of-Famer and...
The Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood’s New “Zero Tolerance” on Offensive Speech Makes Zero Sense
6:53 AM PDT 7/24/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director James Gunn's recent firing over old tweets and a Paramount TV exec’s dismissal amid racially charged comments only reinforce an "atmosphere of fear" and fail...
The Hollywood Reporter: Why the Trump Era’s Movie Villains Are “Morally Woke”
6:30 AM PDT 7/17/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar From 'Black Panther's' Killmonger to 'Incredibles 2's' Evelyn Deavor, this year's big-screen baddies are more "conscionable" than the evildoers in the White House and reflect the ultimate problem: "Those who...