Don Lemon Calls Out Hollywood Leaders "Sitting in Your Mansions and Doing Nothing" Amid Protests

NEW YORK -- As protests erupted across the country following the death of George Floyd, every major entertainment company in Hollywood issued statements of support for the black community. But as unanimous as that show of solidarity was, it was also clear that this wasn't a fight Hollywood could watch from the sidelines.

NEW YORK -- After watching the ghastly video of George Floyd dying as a police officer pressed a knee on his neck, Grammy-nominated R&B singer Trey Songz couldn’t sleep. He felt a pain in his gut so heavy it brought him down to his home studio, where he began recording a new song.

James Bennet, who was considered a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of The New York Times, has resigned from his position as editorial page editor amid an intense backlash to a column his section published on Wednesday. The column, written by a conservative Republican U.S.

Judas Priest‘s ‘Breaking The Law’ is being played over stolen police radios by protesters in New York, according to reports.Protests have been taking place across the world following the death of George Floyd, an African American man who was killed in Minneapolis when a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground during an arrest.A number of well-known people in the world of music and entertainment have since spoken out and given support to the Black Lives Matter

Ludacris is standing with protesters in New York who broke out into a chant at NYPD and summoned his lyrics to have their message heard. Despite the city placing an 8:00 p.m.

Protesters in New York broke out into a chant on Tuesday night (June 2) in an effort to get the NYPD to to unblock the Manhattan Bridge, where marchers had gathered in the latest night of protests in memory of George Floyd.And in classic New York fashion, they picked a solidly profane anthem for their civil disobedience while breaking the city's 8:00 p.m.

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Van Jones discussed feeling a range of emotions from "despair" to "hope" in the wake of the death of George Floyd's death while appearing on Conan on Monday night. From the perspective of a black parent, the CNN commentator said, the death of yet another unarmed black man while being detained by police erased all his lingering notions that he could teach his children to act a certain way to survive encounters with the police.

Celebrities have continued to speak out as the protests that have swept the US in the wake of George Floyd’s death show no signs of stopping.

New York City imposed an 11 p.m. curfew Monday as the nation's biggest city tried to prevent another night of destruction amid protests over George Floyd's death.

NEW YORK -- The nation's unrest has made for an unprecedented nightly action show on television, with control rooms that switch quickly between cars ablaze, police officers advancing on demonstrators and ransacked stores in cities across the country.

In a call with the country’s governors about the ongoing protests against the killing of George Floyd, President Trump advocated for “retribution” against protesters, calling them “terrorists,” “anarchists” and “radicals.”

NEW YORK -- It's not the first time that Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee's 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in the wake of George Floyd's death.

Amidst Leah McSweeney and Ramona Singer’s current feud on The Real Housewives of New York, Leah called Ramona out via Instagram. It all started when Ramona began to get backlash on Instagram for not speaking out about George Floyd’s killing on May 25. When one fan called her out for staying silent by writing, “What the f*** u doin girl! Use ur voice!!!!! Black lives matter!!”, Ramona responded, “All lives matter.”

NEW YORK -- The music industry is planning to turn off the music and hold a day to reflect and implement change in response to the death of George Floyd and the killings of other black people.

Donald Trump is facing major backlash for how he’s handled the protests following George Floyd’s killing on May 25. Some protests outside the White House on May 29 began to turn violent. However, rather than addressing the situation, Trump reportedly hid in a bunker for nearly an hour, according to a Republican close to the White House, who has remained anonymous, per the New York Times. The report was also anonymously confirmed by an administration official.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's 25-year-old daughter was arrested for unlawful assembly Saturday night, according to the city's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information. Chiara de Blasio was at a protest in downtown Manhattan.