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With a million Americans dead from Covid 19, families across the country are struggling with unimaginable grief and loss. More than 200,000 American children are now orphans, having lost a parent or primary caregiver to the pandemic. This short film introduces Avion Simon, a teenager from the Midwest who is struggling to comprehend the loss of his mother to Covid, only two years after his stepfather passed away. He is finishing high school while helping to care for and console his two younger siblings, C.J. and Momo.…

Andrew Garfield has explained why he thinks he struggled so much with the Amazing Spider-Man films.The actor, who previously said the experience left him “heartbroken”, addressed his time as the web-slinging superhero during a new interview with Zendaya.Speaking during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Garfield said: “I think both you and I have gotten to a very privileged position where we get to decide, and we get to have agency and choose. And I find it important for myself to go, ‘What am I called to?’” He…

Harvey Weinstein is suing car manufacturer Chrysler over a 2019 crash.The disgraced film producer is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence following his February 2020 jury conviction for sexual assault and rape. This week, Weinstein filed a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles – now owned by Stellantis – over a 2019 crash in which he flipped a Jeep Wrangler while trying to avoid hitting a deer.The complaint, which was filed at a state court in Manhattan, alleges that it was non-functioning breaks which caused…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study by universities including City, University of London shows that girls' mental health was affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic and the wave of associated school and childcare closures. …

After an altercation took place in front of Blueface’s home last month between his family and his girlfriend, Chrisean Rock, the rapper’s sister is sharing that her husband has left her. Kali Miller, Blueface’s sister, took to Twitter to reveal the news over the weekend, as HotNewHipHop reports. “My husband left me,” she wrote. “Pray for me.”The tweet came after Miller was involved in the altercation, which was captured in images circulating the web last week. The fight reportedly included Blueface, his mother, Karlissa…

Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Kevin Feige one of the most important and influential figures in modern entertainment, thanks to his status as the architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the single most popular (and top-earning) franchise on the planet. What’s even more impressive is that it’s only been 15 years since the relatively unproven 33 year-old was appointed president of production at the upstart Marvel Studios, putting an ambitiously unprecedented strategy into…

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sandberg left Meta feeling burned out and amid an internal probe into her activities, including using corporate resources to plan her wedding — One of the world's most powerful executives became increasingly burned out and disconnected from the mega-business she was instrumental in building. Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sandberg left Meta feeling burned out and amid an internal probe into her activities, including using corporate resources to plan her wedding …

There’s many mysteries and unbelievably in-depth fan theories about the all-encompassing Marvel Cinematic Universe, but now there’s a whole new one: the great Gary conspiracy. In a case that’s too hot to handle for the X-Files team, the Marvel Studios subreddit is trying to get to the bottom of what may just be a timeless, unsolvable problem: why there are so many people named Gary who are just passively mentioned throughout the various TV shows and movies of the MCU. There’s absolutely nothing clear in the…

The cremation platform during the excavation of 1987. Credit: Ufficio Beni Archeologici di Bolzano A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy and one in the U.S. has found that a unique Bronze Age cremation site in modern Italy holds the remains of up to 172 people who were left to the elements. In their paper published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group describes their study of the bones and…

Going Left is a monthly column that highlights exceptional work from indie hip-hop acts. Read previous editions of the column here.“Tryna pay the rent but that’s not Black empowerment—that’s you tryna pay the rent,” rapper and Backwoodz Studioz co-founder billy woods says on “Protoevengalium,” a track from his new album Aethiopes. The line symbolizes his ability to encapsulate complex ideas into poignant one-liners, like on his “Nynex” collaboration where he asserts, “The future isn’t flying cars, it’s Rachel Dolezal…