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Matt James, who made history last year as the first Black (male) lead on one of TV’s biggest shows, The Bachelor, has had over a year to reflect on the experience and now says he sees the full scope of the opportunity lost. Given the landmark nature of his role, James says he expected the show’s producers would use…

President Joe Biden told reporters that the 22.5-year sentence handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was “appropriate.” "I don't know all the circumstances that were considered but it seems to me, that under the guidelines, that seems to be appropriate,” Biden said in the Oval Office, where he…

Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in April on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison. The sentencing came after the judge rejected the disgraced…

Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. With a chanting crowd outside the downtown Minneapolis courtroom, the ruling just now by Minnesota Judge Peter Cahill comes a year and month after the now-ex-cop killed Floyd in the street by cruelly pressing his knee on…

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the killing of George Floyd on her cell phone, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation today. In announcing the honor, the Pulitzer organization cited Frazier “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality…

EXECUTIVE: Fired Law & Order: Organized Crime co-executive producer Craig Gore and Universal Television have made a deal behind closed doors Over a year after Chicago P.D. alum Gore was unceremoniously cut loose from his perch at Dick Wolf's latest spinoff over racially charged social media posts in the days following…

Editor’s note: A hundred years ago today, after an attempt to lynch a Black teenager accused of raping a white woman was stymied, a rabid white mob numbering in the thousands descended on the affluent and predominantly African-American Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over two days, more than 300 women, child…

WME and Endeavor Content will be recognizing the one-year anniversary of #BlackoutTuesday on June 1 by teaming with Color of Change and its #ChangeHollywood initiative to pause work for a "day on," which will consist of workshops and programming focused on achieving racial equity. The day’s programing will feature a…

Next month’s Tribeca Film Festival will close with a still-untitled documentary produced by comedian Dave Chappelle about the issues confronting a rural Ohio town in 2020. The film is produced and directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, who won an Oscar for American Factory. Closing night will be held at Radio…

UPDATE, 3:49 PM PT: Joe Biden told reporters that he is “hopeful that after Memorial Day” there will be a deal on a police reform bill. The president made the remarks after meeting at the White House with the family of George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death. He said that such anniversaries of personal…

Editors note: On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police, renowned civil rights attorney and Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump examines the history and the legacy of that horrific day in a guest column for Deadline. Today, on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s horrific death, it’s…

It’s been one year since George Floyd’s death at the hands of police on the streets of Minneapolis — and America and the world were horrified by the cellphone video. Cities exploded with protests that would last throughout the summer and feed a renewed national focus on justice, equality and race in general. As we…