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Emancipation
on the record
Mar. 2, 2023
Will Smith Is Very Sorry About the Oscars Slap But he’s finally ready to give an awards acceptance speech in person again.
By Zoe Guy
oscar futures
Dec. 16, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can Avatar: The Way of Water Crack the Best Picture Race? The original Avatar came close to winning Best Picture. Way of Water will be a presence in the race, too.
By Nate Jones
method acting
Dec. 14, 2022
By Zoe Guy
oscar futures
Dec. 2, 2022
Oscar Futures: Is the Academy Ready to Forgive Will Smith? He’s banned from the ceremony for the next ten years, but could Will Smith nab a nomination for Emancipation anyway?
By Nate Jones
trailer mix
Nov. 16, 2022
By Justin Curto
oscar futures
Oct. 7, 2022
Oscar Futures: A Tár Is Born? Cate Blanchett is getting raves as a manipulative maestro in Todd Field’s drama. Could she get her third trophy, too?
By Nate Jones
Several Will Smith Projects Allegedly ‘on Hold’ Post-Oscars Slap National Geographic put Will Smith’s show Pole to Pole on pause until the fall.
By Alejandra Gularte
Juneteenth Is Now a Federal Holiday “Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden said as he signed the bill establishing a holiday marking the end of slavery.
By Ed Kilgore
the industry
Apr. 12, 2021
Will Smith Movie Emancipation Will Not Shoot in Georgia Over Voting Restrictions The runaway-slave movie is one of the first to leave the state, a popular location for shoots.
By Justin Curto
what’s past is prologue
June 19, 2020
What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday? The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
By Ed Kilgore
medicare for all
Nov. 5, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Sees Health Care As a Civil-Rights Struggle. That Bothers Some. Some have taken issue with her comparison of today’s fight for universal health care to past civil-rights struggles.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
This Minnesota Mom Is Suing Her Transgender Teen for Seeking Gender Reassignment She’s challenging a law that lets emancipated minors make their own health decisions.
By Lisa Ryan