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UPDATED with video: Former Veep Joe Biden kicked off campaigning today, after teeing up his 2020 race last week with a candidacy announcement video blasting President Donald Trump for his “very fine people on both sides” of the issue at the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. At that rally, neo-Nazis…

EXCLUSIVE: After a screening of Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman at New York’s Lincoln Center, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee reminisced about their days at NYU and broke down their shared influences in a 45-minute conversation that proved catnip for any cinephile. But the talk also featured a dose of Scorsese at his most…

One year after the tragic Charlottesville march, more than 200 protestors planned a rally on Saturday evening amidst peaceful vigils at the University of Virginia to mark the anniversary of the confrontation between tiki torch-toting white nationalists and counter-protestors. As a result, authorities had a brief…

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment has partnered with hip-hop artist Timbaland and rapper Princess Nokia for a new music video for its “Erase The Hate” social impact campaign. The launch of the campaign and the release of the video coincides with the one-year anniversary of the march in Charlottesville, Va. The video…

It’s been nearly two months since the violent events that broke out in Charlottesville after a “Unite the Right” rally. White nationalist leader Richard Spencer returned to the city’s Emancipation Park today where he led a group of about 30 tiki torch-toting white nationalists to the Robert E. Lee statue, which the…

After the White House today suggested ESPN host Jemele Hill’s recent tweet calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” is “a “fireable offense,” some noteworthy people came to her defense. Among them: From his history, performance & statements, Pres. Donald Trump is a white supremacist. Please alert HBO i…

In his 60 Minutes interview airing Sunday, former White House strategist/current Breitbart chief Steve Bannon tells Charlie Rose he’s a “street fighter.” Rose simpers he’s more than that. Nope – street fighter, Bannon insists. “That’s what I am.” “You’re more than that,” Rose counter-insists. “I’m a street fighter,&#8221…

Following well-received morning screenings of George Clooney's Suburbicon, the filmmaker and stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore discussed the 1950s-set crime comedy/drama with international journalists at the Venice Film Festival. The SRO press conference quickly turned to the current state of America which the movie…

Hurricane Harvey had to share the TV news cycle Friday with President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, who wrote a letter of resignation after Trump’s “fine people on both sides” statement about the violent neo-Nazi/white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Cohn told the Financial Times in an…

Trevor Noah dove in to President Donald Trump’s Phoenix rally performance on Wednesday’s The Daily Show, starting with POTUS’ well-received announcement about his stalled Mexico-border wall: "Believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall." "What happened to Mexico paying for the wall?!&#8221…

Donald Trump tweeted out Part 2 of the Insides Of My Head speech he began Tuesday night in Phoenix. In Part 1, The President of the United States told his shrinking number of supporters the media hate the U.S. and are to blame for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. He warned rally-goers the media is “trying to take…

ESPN has switched announcer Robert Lee off of its broadcast of the University of Virginia's first football game of the season next month, owing to what the network said was "the coincidence of his name." Lee, who is Asian-American, shares a first and last name with the Confederate general whose statues have become a…