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Dave Chappelle Reacts To
‘Black Panther’ Actress Letitia Wright Reportedly Fired Her U. S. PR Team
People Calling To Cancel
Dave Chappelle doesn't mind being "cancelled" over his new Netflix special "The Closer".
The funnyman took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Thursday (07Oct21) night for a screen- ing of his documentary and addressed multiple petitions for his show to be pulled from the streamer.
Despite being slammed for alleged transphobic com- ments, he insisted, "If this is what being cancelled is about, I love it... I don't know what to tell you, except I'm a bad motherf**ker."
"This is the kindness con- spiracy," he said, reported Deadline, before insisting Americans "have to trust one another."
Chappelle also reportedly slammed social media by call- ing out, "F**k Twitter," prompting support from the crowd.
The funnyman, who ad- dresses his war with transgen- der men and women throughout The Closer, has upset officials at the Gay &
But a new report from The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Wright has continued her anti-vaccine stance on the
LETITIA WRIGHT
Him: 'I Love It'
Despite playing a scientist in Black Panther, actress Letitia Wright is under fire for her stance on the COVID-19 vac- cine.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, new details claim Wright fired her U. S. public relations team after she faced backlash for the skepticism she expressed over COVID-19 vac- cines. In December 2020, Wright made headlines after posting a video that questioned the vaccines.
Wakanda Forever.
The reveal comes as Disney, the studio behind the Black Panther franchise, will begin enforcing its vaccination man- date “in a return-to-work agreement between AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) and Hollywood’s unions.”
“My intention was not to hurt anyone,” she said in a tweet captured by Indie Wire. “My only intention of posting the video was it raised my con- cerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are put- ting in our bodies. Nothing else.”
DAVE CHAPPELLE
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the National Black Justice Coali- tion once again with his re- marks.
Amongst various com- ments, he sides with "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, who became a target of ac- tivists last year after offering up her controversial views on transgender women.
Despite the backlash, his new special has raced to the top five on Netflix's list of the most popular films and series on the platform in the U. S.
set of Marvel’s Black Panther:
Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Leads
Screenwriting Fellowship For Black Women
Mogul and comedian Kevin Hart is on a mission to change the narrative around racial and gender representation in the realm of entertainment. Accord- ing to reporters, the Philadel- phia native’s production company has teamed up with NBCUniversal and the Sun- dance Institute for the creation of a screenwriting fellowship program for Black women.
Further research revealed a mere 17 percent of shows had
KEVIN HART
one Black writer. Aware of the disparities, Hart’s company set out on a mission to cultivate an initiative that would help ad- dress the gaps which led to the development of the Women Write Now fellowship program. As part of the project, three scripts penned by writers Moni Oyedepo, Wilandrea Blair and Danielle Nicolet were se- lected amongst nearly 1,000 submissions.
Bruno Mars And Anderson .Paak Announce Silk Sonic Album Release
Silk Sonic is coming this year.
After initially announcing that their joint album wouldn’t drop until 2022, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have had a change of heart. In honor of his 36th birthday on Friday, Bruno surprised fans by announcing that the duo’s debut album An Evening with Silk Sonic will arrive on Nov. 12, 2021.
The duo previously said that their album wouldn’t arrive until next year because they
SILK SONIC
wanted to release more songs ment before dropping the full and allow each to have its mo- body of work.
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