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“On any given night, there's 50 million Trump jokes. So I started to stay away from it,” Cedric the Entertainer told Variety in 2020. The same rule does not apply to Trump’s friend Herschel Walker, it seems. In a new 90-second ad for the Progress Action Fund, the star of CBS’ The Neighborhood takes aim at the Georgia…

College football’s championship series is expanding from four to 12 teams, embracing the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large teams. The College Football Playoff’s 11-person board of managers unanimously voted Friday for the inflation to take hold in 2026. But it is also encouraging the sport’s…

A federal appeals court ruled today that Georgia's restrictive 2019 abortion law should be allowed to take effect, overruling a lower court. The three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion…

Trevor Noah and his Daily Show team are taking their show on the road. It marks the first time that the Comedy Central late-night series has gone on the move in such a big way since the Covid pandemic began. The show will cover the midterm elections from the battleground state. It will record full shows from…

UPDATED, 5:59 PM: Proposed changes to Georgia's best-in-the-country film incentives program have been scrapped. The proposed changes, which would have capped tax credits at $900 million a year and banned film companies from selling the credits to third parties, had been backed by Georgia's Senate Finance Committee but…

After nearly two months off, the cast and crew of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are ready to resume production next week on the Marvel mega sequel. The news, first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, was confirmed today by a person close to the situation. Marvel had no comment. The film is also again listed among the…

The College Football Playoff National Championship pitting No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia is set to kick off Monday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ESPN, the hub of the network’s “MegaCast” coverage across 13 brands and platforms including Spanish-language ESPN Deportes, the ESPN app, the SEC Network and ESPN Radio. The…

The final rankings are in for the College Football Playoff field. The No. 1 seed is Alabama, fresh off its victory over previous No. 1 Georgia in the SEC championship. The Crimson Tide will be joined by Michigan, the Big Ten Title winner by 42-3 over Iowa; Cincinnati, the first Group of Five team to make the final…

Stacey Abrams is waging another run for governor of Georgia. She posted her announcement on Twitter, in which she said, “My job has been to put my head down and keep working toward one Georgia.” I'm running for Governor because opportunity in our state shouldn't be determined by zip code, background or access to…

The film and television industry pumped a record-setting $4 billion in direct spending into Georgia's economy over the past year, despite the pandemic and in spite of calls earlier this year for a business boycott of the state because of its restrictive new voter law. According to the Georgia Film Office, 366…

The fight for full enfranchisement is fundamental to the African-American struggle in this country and to this country's claim to functioning democracy. As an African-American, and as a citizen, I oppose all attempts, explicit and otherwise, to shrink the electorate and reduce access to the ballot. I say this as I…

Major corporations, celebrities and other prominent figures signed on to a two-page ad opposing “any discriminatory legislation or measures” that restrict eligible voters from having “an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot.” Netflix, UTA, CAA and ViacomCBS were among the media and entertainment companies to…