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If you went looking for a group of passionate changemakers on Friday night, they were probably at the United Nations. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg turned the fourth floor of the U.N. into a powerfully casual celebration for the 9th annual DVF Awards, complete with small chocolate dessert towers and white lounge couches in lieu of traditional seats.
They were honouring stars of Hollywood, the media and literature, but it was longtime activist and MeToo founder Tarana Burke - a name unknown to most people until six months ago - who got the biggest ovation at Variety's annual Power of Women event on Friday. Activist Tarana Burke attends Variety's Power of Women event Friday in New York and told the audience she's "desperate to change" the narrative surrounding the MeToo movement before it's too late.
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking.
They were honoring stars of Hollywood, the media and literature, but it was longtime activist and MeToo founder Tarana Burke - a name unknown to most people until six months ago - who got the biggest ovation at Variety's annual Power of Women event on Friday. Burke, who founded the MeToo movement 12 years ago and runs it out of the Brooklyn, New York, offices of Girls for Gender Equity, said she wanted people to recognize its deeper purpose - working with survivors of sexual assault, and not simply bringing down powerful abusers.
The 2018 Women in the World Summit will welcome the likes of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , Oscar Award -winning actress Viola Davis and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to the event which will be set against the backdrop of #MeToo, antigun violence activism and the equal pay debate. Donald Trump 's campaign trail 'grab them by the p****' comment to Billy Bush, the White House endorsement of Roy Moore for senator of Alabama and praise of former aide and alleged wife beater Rob Porter were all catalysts in the organisation of the summit for founder Tina Brown CBE.
Community Arts Awards celebration recognizes leaders in the arts DoA a Ana Arts Council's Community Arts Awards recognize individuals and organizations for their contributions to the arts. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: LAS CRUCES - For 31 years, the DoA a Ana Arts Council 's Community Arts Awards have recognized individuals and organizations for their contributions to the arts.
Six months ago, no one predicted the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate during the May 8 primary election would be anything but a two-person race between current U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.
Recently released numbers show Hawaii boasts the United States' l... . FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa works in her downtown office in Honolulu.
Case closed! FBI finally cracks its oldest mystery after successfully extracting DNA from a 4,000-year-old severed mummy's head that was originally discovered in 1915 The FBI successfully uncovered the identity of a 4,000-year-old mummy's head, after deliberating for years whether it belonged to an Egyptian governor or his wife. The mummy's severed head was found in 1915 by a team of American archaeologists working in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha.
For centuries, mankind has reported seeing UFOs in various parts of the world. The alleged sightings have captivated the public imagination and raised questions about life beyond our planet.
Ezra has a really good piece about people who act as if making claims about the genetic inferiority of African-Americans makes them heroes whose speech is being suppressed rather than elites repeating the same self-justifying myths white elites have been repeating for time out of mind: What bothered me most about Harris's conversation with Murray was the framing. There is nothing more seductive than "forbidden knowledge."
Staff writers for The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News won awards on Tuesday for investigative nonfiction books. The Post's Amy Goldstein won the $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for her portrait of a Wisconsin community and the residence of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, "Janesville: An American Story."
Staff writers for The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News won awards on Tuesday for investigative nonfiction books. The Post's Amy Goldstein won the $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for her portrait of a Wisconsin community and the residence of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, "Janesville: An American Story."
Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee for CIA director to succeed Mike Pompeo. President Trump vowed during his campaign to bring back torture as a weapon against terrorism.
BREAKING NEWS: Tour helicopter crash lands and sinks upside down in New York's East River with five people in the water Daycare owner, 32, gets 21 years in prison for drugging children with melatonin and leaving them alone so she could go tanning and to the gym Trump falsely claims he has a 50 per cent approval rating - but overall it's barely 40 - and he's still lagging behind Obama Psychiatrist who believes homosexuality is a 'personality disorder' had sex with male patients in his office as part of their 'treatment' Missouri, home of the child bride: How the US state has become a haven for 15-year-old brides thanks to lenient laws requiring consent from just one parent Mom, 27, charged with child endangerment after her 9-month old baby is filmed crawling along a busy ROAD in viral video TV plastic surgeon-to-the-stars whose clients include RHOBH's Lisa Rinna is accused of drug use and ... (more)
BREAKING NEWS: Tour helicopter crash lands and sinks upside down in New York's East River with five people in the water Daycare owner, 32, gets 21 years in prison for drugging children with melatonin and leaving them alone so she could go tanning and to the gym Trump falsely claims he has a 50 per cent approval rating - but overall it's barely 40 - and he's still lagging behind Obama Psychiatrist who believes homosexuality is a 'personality disorder' had sex with male patients in his office as part of their 'treatment' Missouri, home of the child bride: How the US state has become a haven for 15-year-old brides thanks to lenient laws requiring consent from just one parent Mom, 27, charged with child endangerment after her 9-month old baby is filmed crawling along a busy ROAD in viral video TV plastic surgeon-to-the-stars whose clients include RHOBH's Lisa Rinna is accused of drug use and ... (more)
" What Haunts Us " is this year's big-deal movie at the Terrace Charleston Film Festival, and theater owner Paul Brown is considering a regular run if festival ticket sales indicate the documentary deserves one. "This is some serious stuff," he said of the film's subject matter, the Eddie Fischer sexual abuse scandal that rocked Porter-Gaud and other schools in the 1970s and 1980s.
The photo - of a very little black girl staring up in rapt awe at a portrait of a regal Michelle Obama - flashed like wildfire across the internet a week or so ago. The mother of two-year-old Parker Curry tried in vain to take a picture of her daughter in front of the portrait, but the child, transfixed by a painting of someone she later breathlessly confided was "a queen," wouldn't turn around.
A photo of a 2-year-old girl gazing at former first lady Michelle Obama's portrait in the Smithsonian warmed hearts across the internet last week. On Tuesday, the subject of the inspirational photo got to meet Obama herself.
Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Allison Janney, and Gary Oldman pose in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awardsin Hollywood, California. CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic By the time Jimmy Kimmel, host of the 90th Academy Awards, took the stage at the Dolby Theatre, there was already an uncomfortable tension surrounding what Hollywood loves to call its biggest night.