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Chadwick Boseman Delivers Electrifying Speech As ‘Black Panther’ Wins At SAG Awards
LeBron James Helped Octavia Spencer Get Equal Pay On Netflix Series
Academy Award winning actress Octavia Spencer recently spoke at a panel at the Sundance Film Festival, where she revealed that Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James helped her earn equal pay on a Netflix series.
Spencer, who worked alongside LeBron on a biopic about Madam C.J. Walker (America's first black self-made millionaire), described how the four-time NBA MVP stepped in to en- sure she received a fair deal compared to male cast mem- bers.
"I have to say, when I was negotiating my deal for ‘Madam C. J.,’ LeBron James had to intervene,"
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Spencer said during the panel (H/T TMZ Sports). She added, "We need all our male counterparts to be in the fight with us."
Last Fall, LeBron spoke
out about the wage gap be- tween men and women, specifically African American women, and used the back- lash received by Serena Williams at last year's U. S. Open as an example.
He told Marisa Guthrie of the Hollywood Reporter, "What we all have to under- stand is what she is fighting for is bigger than just that match," he said. "She is fight- ing for equality—always hav- ing to win more, more, more, just to feel equal. Being an African American woman playing in a predominantly white sport, she's dealing with so much more. I have no idea what was going on in her head, but I feel that struggle."
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"Young, gifted and black."
Black Panther may have not taken home an award at the Golden Globes a few weeks back, but they sure pulled in a lot of love at this past week- end's Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Marvel film won Best Film Ensemble, one of the most prestigious awards of the night, and the speech de- livered by the main actor, Chadwick Boseman, was a powerful one, to say the least. "We all know what it’s like to be told that there is not a place for you to be featured, yet you are young, gifted and black. We know what it’s like to be told there’s not a screen for you to be featured on, a stage for you to be featured on," Chadwick told the audience.
"We know what it’s like to be the tail and not the head. We know what it’s like to be be- neath and not above. And that is what we went to work with every day...We knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world, that
we could be full human beings in the roles that we were play- ing, that we could create a world that exemplified a world that we wanted to see.”
Black Panther has a few nominations for the upcoming Oscar awards and while peo- ple may think a nomination is enough, an official win speaks volumes.
“Did Black Panther change the industry?” Boseman said. “You can’t have a Black Pan- ther now without a 2 on it."
Future Scores Sixth No. 1 Album On Billboard 200 With 'The WIZRD'
Future’s latest project The WIZRD has earned the platinum-selling artist his sixth No. 1 album on the Bill- board 200 for the week end- ing January 24. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN project takes a 13 per- cent dip to land in the Top 3, while Meek Mill’s Champi- onships album also takes a 13 percent hit to wind up in the Top 5.
Elsewhere on the chart,
XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4 compi- lation makes its debut at No. 23 and the Aesop Rock- helmed duo Malibu Ken enters the chart at No. 176
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with its self-titled effort. Future’s music career continues to blossom with his
sixth No. 1 album in three years and five months, the quickest accumulation since Elton John in the ’70s. With 125,948 total album equivalent units, 15,300 pure album sales and a streaming count of 143,619,329, The WIZRD easily nabbed the Billboard 200 crown.
In 2017, Future and HN- DRXX (his fifth and sixth studio albums, respectively) debuted at No. 1 back-to- back. Subsequently, Future became the first artist to debut two albums at No. 1 at the same time on the Bill- board 200 and Canadian Al- bums Chart.
Kerry Washington To Star In And Produce 'American Son' Netflix Adaptation
Kerry Washington's
Broadway banger, Ameri- can Son, will be making its on-screen debut with Net- flix.
Steven Pasquale (The Good Wife), Jeremy Jor- dan (Supergirl), Eugene Lee (A Soldier’s Play) and Washington will be repris- ing their groundbreaking roles from the thought-pro- voking Broadway produc- tion. Kenny Leon, who served as the play's original
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director, will be directing the picture and producing the film alongside the former Scandal actress.
The 41-year-old made the announcement on Mon- day night (Jan. 21) while appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, where she gushed over her role as Kendra and the play's exploration into an interracial families search for their missing son in a Florida police station.
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