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Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams received the NAACP’s first-ever Social Justice Impact award, which was presented by the former First Lady Michelle Obama at the 52nd annual Image Awards. She started off by acknowledging her parents for teaching her and her siblings “to see the challenges in our world as…

The pretenders and contenders are out of the way and the awards season main event is finally here with the 93rd Oscar  nominations unveiled this morning, for better or worse. Announced from the UK by a jovial Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas in the early West Coast hours, the likely semi-virtual April 25-set…

After dealing with a narcissist in the White House for four years, it may be difficult to imagine a politician who doesn't make everything about themself. But consider Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, who nearly won election in 2018 to become the country's first Black woman governor. After…

Stacey Abrams, Ziwe Fumudoh and Nicole Byer are among the cultural figures and notable creators set to appear in YouTube Originals’ Black History Month Celebration, Black Renaissance. Also joining the YouTube special are H.E.R., Anderson .Paak, Kelly Rowland, Bob the Drag Queen, Maurice Harris, Yung BBQ…

With its film line-up previously announced, the SXSW Film Festival has unveiled its keynote and a very robust second round of featured speakers. This year’s online edition of SXSW kicks off on March 16 and continues through March 20. SXSW will feature Nobel Peace Prize-nominated political leader Stacey Abrams in a…

"Forget money, I'm focused on dignity and loyalty." Those were the disturbing words spoken the other day by my favorite agent who, alas, is facing the prospect of going out of business. Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for ASK and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has gone all in with Lisa Cortés, and vice versa. The All In: The Fight For Democracy co-director has signed with the uberagency in all areas, I've learned. Cortés' new representation comes as the Oscar nominee and Emmy winner finds herself at the center of a vast political shift in the nation. A change…

Before he left office, former President Trump spent weeks making false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, alleging that's what cost him victory. On November 27, for example, Trump implied in a tweet that chicanery had taken place in Detroit ("…more votes than people!"), Philadelphia, Atlanta and…

"I think that for so many people that have been victims of voter suppression, they thought it was singular," says All In: The Fight for Democracy co-director Lisa Cortés on the brutal and conniving forces that try to deny citizens their rights. "What our film does is it places these individuals within this broader…

UPDATED with video: Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams plays a central role in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, but the film from Amazon Studios shouldn't be construed as "The Stacey Abrams Story." The film has a bigger focus in mind, the…

Georgia’s Senate runoff races on Tuesday will determine control of the chamber, a hugely important vote that could determine the extent to which President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can enact their agenda. That fact has been top of mind as Democratic showbiz activists pour money and time…

The cast of NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan have reunited in a bid to support Stacey Abrams' nonprofit organization Fair Fight in Georgia. Jill Hennessy, Jerry O'Connell, Kathryn Hahn, Brooke Smith, Steve Valentine and Ravi Kapoor got back together in a virtual special, which will air online on Friday, November…