A Mobilized Latinx Community Confronts Its Own Issues With Racism to Better Stand With Black Lives Matter

Bruce Haring, Tom Tapp The New York Yankees and Washington Nationals staged a brief tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement in the pregame ceremony on baseball’s opening day. Both teams held a long black ribbon while a BLM video made by the Players Alliance was screened, then stood for the national anthem.The Players Alliance is a group of current and former black players formed in the wake of the George Floyd death.

D.B. Woodside is opening up about how the Black Lives Matter movement has affected him personally.ET spoke with the 50-year-old star via Zoom, where he addressed the ongoing fight for racial justice and the responsibility he feels to help make that change.«The movement is extremely important and we all have to push this change that we really wanna see,» Woodside told ET's Katie Krause.

Run The Jewels’ Killer Mike has reflected on the Black Lives Matter protests that have taken place in the US and around the world since May.The protests began after George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, when officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes, ignoring Floyd repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story, Mike said the global protests had made him optimistic for the future.

As protesters continue to take to the streets throughout the world, Bon Jovi is supporting the Black Lives Matter movement with a timely new single.

Grammy categories will no longer be used by the streaming service in the UK.“Moving forward, we won’t be using the word ‘urban’ in the UK anymore,” Safiya Lambie-Knight, Spotify UK’s head of artist and label partnerships, tells Music Week.

sparred with CNN host Don Lemon Monday night over whether the Black Lives Matter movement was going too far with their campaign against police violence.The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star was on the show addressing fierce backlash that the actor received over a series of heated tweets amid the protests over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans in police custody.In the much-criticized posts, Crews, 51, pledged to “unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology” and wrote

Keke Palmer is using her platform to continue the conversation and encourage action amid the Black Lives Matter movement.

George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and subsequent protests have further ignited a passion in artists inspired to use their music as a sounding board for change.  Check below for protest songs that highlight the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement.The GRAMMY winner lets his emotions flow on the BLM-inspired piano ballad “I Cry.” The father of two released the song to teach his sons that it’s «OK for a man to feel emotions deeply and to cry.” All proceeds from “I Cry” benefit Local

George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are still ongoing. The call to eradicate the systemic racism plaguing our country is ongoing.

Simon Pegg spoke out in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement, noting that a push for more diversity has been a long time coming in the entertainment industry. The “Shaun of the Dead” actor pulled no punches when discussing the ongoing protests happening throughout the world sparked by the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25.

death of George Floyd, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have reached further into their own pockets for another good cause.The couple, who have been together since 2012, have reportedly made another $200,000 (£160,000) donation, in aid of Canada's National Indigenous History Month.According to Entertainment Tonight Canada, Lively and Reynolds donated the money to St.

The Black Lives Matter movement took center stage at the2020 BET Awards. The Sunday night awards ceremony, hosted by comedian and actress Amanda Seales, saw a number of impactful musical performances and moving acceptance speeches from the evening's winners.

Tokyo Toni, who is famous for being the mother of reality TV star Blac Chyna, is getting blasted for the wild and hateful comments that she made about black people and the powerful Black Lives Matter movement that has gone global since the horrific death of George Floyd. The controversial media personality, who has been in public feuds with her daughter and her almost son-in-law, Robert Kardashian, lashed out at BLM in a series of epic rants that have gone viral.

Bow Wow knows that some of the hardest work begins on the inside. The 33-year-old rapper has been using his platform to speak out about Black Lives Matter and encourage his fans to safely protest in support of racial justice and equality.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVice Media Group is calling on the advertising industry to review “brand safe” keywords, after the company recently found that ad blocklists have included such terms as “Black Lives Matter,” “George Floyd,” “protest” and — in one case — “Black people.”Speaking at the company’s virtual Digital Content NewFronts, Marsha Cooke, Vice Media Group’s SVP of impact, outlined the problem, which she called Cooke called “the brand-safety paradox.” While such strategies are