Abraham Lincoln Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

On tonight’s episode of SNL, Weekend Update found a wide range of targets, from Jon Voight, Bono, Dwayne Johnson and the new Lord of the Rings seriess, to cast members Colin Jost and Pete Davidson themselves.

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Marton Csokas (The Last Duel) are joining John Cena, Alison Brie and Juan Pablo Raba in director Pierre Morel’s (Taken) action-comedy Freelance.

Abraham Lincoln‘s complex journey to end slavery will be explored in the upcoming docuseries from Apple TV+, Lincoln’s Dilemma. The four-parter, based on David S. Reynolds’ book Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, is set to premiere on Feb. 18.

Tobias Menzies is eschewing royal Britain to try and catch President Abraham Lincoln’s killer in a new limited drama series for Apple.

Democratic strategist James Carville identified Wednesday what he believes is costing his party at the polls: “Stupid wokeness.”“What went wrong is just stupid wokeness,” he told PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff when she asked what happened Tuesday in Virginia, where Democratic gubernatorial incumbent Terry McAuliffe went down to Republican Glenn Youngkin.

abjectly humiliating himself on behalf of Donald Trump.

Michael Nordine authorAmerica’s creation myths may not be entirely rooted in fact — few of us still believe the story about George Washington chopping down that cherry tree — but they’re considerably less outlandish than “America: The Motion Picture,” an animated comedy in which our first president is a chainsaw-wielding freedom fighter who founds America to avenge the murder of his best friend, Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation, a law that was meant to free all slaves in America. However, Texas decided to ignore the new law and kept Black Americans enslaved for two more years.On Monday, June 19, 1965, General Gordon Granger and 2,000 troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that all slaves had been free for two years.

Editors note: Actor Dwayne Barnes writes occasional columns here at Deadline and today he confronts his mixed feelings that come with the official holiday status of Juneteenth.

Photos have been released from the White House’s East Room, where President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday.

Angelique Jackson Ms. Opal Lee is on the move.

Juneteenth! This holiday -- named for and celebrated on June 19 -- commemorates the true ending of slavery in the United States. (You'll note, it is not Jan.

“An American Marriage” (Pegasus), out now. “Lincoln may never have become president if his wife had not turbocharged the restless engine of his ambition,” Burlingame writes. And, he reveals, Mary’s madness would also open the door to her husband’s assassin in 1865. Born in 1818, Mary Todd grew up in material comfort yet called her childhood “desolate.” Six years old when her mother died, she felt rejected by her merchant-politician father and the stepmother he quickly married. “She came to think

With 2012’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sadly yet to have spawned a Marvel-style cinematic universe, Karl Marx and neck-chomping Dracula types might seen unlikely movie bedfellows. But the two collide like never before in a 2021 Berlinale Encounters title that also boasts one of the festival’s most eye-catching film loglines.

50 Cent and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris are developing a new Netflix series based on The 50th Law, the bestselling book co-authored by the rapper alongside Robert Greene.The 50th Law is a semi-autobiographical account of the ‘I Get Money’ artist’s early life and career, which also includes quotes from historical figures such as Sun Tzu, Socrates, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, and Malcolm X.Barris will co-write and executive produce the pilot script with Hale Rothstein, who executive produces

A city commission is determining the fate of monuments to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and other historical figures in Chicago as part of a “racial healing and historical reckoning project” that began over the summer.No decision has been made on whether any of the 41 statues and other commemorative markers of presidents Lincoln, Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley, and more, will be taken down.

Lincoln: Divided We Stand is a six-part docuseries, narrated by This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, that takes a look at the story of the 16th President of the United States.

just one week in February each year?If you’re wondering why Black History Month is in February––the shortest month in the entire year––you’re not alone. It all started nearly 100 years ago with Dr.

Alicia Keys‘ performance of the classic song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” aired during the 2021 Super Bowl pre-game show!

Hal Holbrook, the craftsman who reincarnated Mark Twain on stage and screen for more than six decades and also stood out as Abraham Lincoln and Deep Throat, two other American legends, has died. He was 95.

How It StartedIn 1915, historian Dr. Carter G.

Could you soon be dropping your child off at Jerry Garcia High School? It could happen if you live in San Francisco, where the school board recently voted to remove 44 school names honoring "problematic" historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere because of their links to slavery, oppression or racism. Even Dianne Feinstein Elementary, named for the current Democratic U.S.

Tom Hanks is keeping close to family during the first Celebrating America television event, following Joe Biden‘s Presidential Inauguration on Wednesday (January 20).

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – After decades of debate, legislators are finally sensing strong support for repealing Maryland's state song, a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy against "Northern scum" that refers to President Abraham Lincoln as a despot.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet – optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice – has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common, where it had stood since 1879.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston.Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879.City officials had agreed in late June to take down the memorial after complaints and a bitter debate

Also on this day: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, is declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

You know what I like to do when my house is on fire? Change the doormat, so it's more welcoming.  Before it had my name — "The Gutfelds"— but I realize that it could be offensive to people who aren't Gutfelds.

Also on this day: The presidential election is turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock develops between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H.