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Monday 26 March 2018
Celebrities at Kids' Choice Awards praise youth marches

By NICOLE EVATT 17 people dead on Feb. 14. know even my friends, they
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The The demonstration in Los want to feel safe when
power of the youth rallies Angeles was the first pro- they go to school, and they
against gun violence that test for 15-year-old Jenna shouldn't be scared."
were held across the U.S. Ortega. The "Jane the Vir- Candace Bure, a Kids'
this weekend impressed gin" actress was deeply Choice Awards nominee
many of the celebrities moved by the atmosphere. for "Fuller House," said she's
who turned out at the Kids' "We are kids. We have so proudly raised her daugh-
Choice Awards. much ahead of us. We ter to be an activist.
Stars including former have these full lives to live “I think it’s so important to
couple Mariah Carey and that these other people teach our kids to speak
Nick Cannon voiced their have already lived," she up for what they believe
support for the hundreds said. "We have so much in and use their voice
of thousands of teenagers hope, so many dreams. So and know that they are
and their supporters who when situations like school never too young to have
spent Saturday marching shootings happen, they're an opinion, to have their
for gun control. killing those dreams along voice heard, regardless of
"We were with them in with them and our future whether people agree or
spirit," Carey said as she ar- activists and politicians." disagree with them, but
rived that night to the an- Ortega said the preva- they have to speak up,”
nual event with ex-husband lence of mass shootings she said. Patrick Schwar-
Cannon and their twins, has made her scared to go zenegger, star of romantic
Moroccan and Monroe. to public places. "I'm only teen film “Midnight Sun,”
"Oh, it's so amazing. Abso- 15! It shouldn't be like that. said he can’t wait to see
lutely! I want them to see And school is supposed to this young generation of
that as well," Cannon said, be a place for love, where activists become the lead-
pointing to his son perched you learn, where you grow, ers of tomorrow. “They’re
on his shoulders. not die. And that's the sad- the future, and I think it’s
The Kids' Choice Awards dest thing," she said. Disney awesome how they’ve
in Los Angeles featured Host John Cena gets slimed onstage at the Kids' Choice Awards Channel actress Skai Jack- handled themselves and
host John Cena and others at The Forum on Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Inglewood, Calif. son spoke at the Los Ange- gone out and used the situ-
getting doused with green (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) les rally and said teenag- ation (that) unfortunately
slime, as is tradition, along ers still have power, even if (happened) to create a
with performances and who participated in the ral- action by a new corps of they aren't old enough to change,” said Schwar-
awards. lies in the kind of numbers leaders: student survivors of vote. "We still have a voice, zenegger, son of actor and
Before the ceremony, stars seen during the Vietnam the high school shooting in and that change needs to former California Gov. Ar-
praised the kids and teens era. They were called to Parkland, Florida, that left be done," she said. "And I nold Schwarzenegger.q

Paris:

Voguing revives as minorities strike a pose

By THOMAS ADAMSON dance events as safe plac- es of Vogue magazine.
Associated Press es in which their racial and The dance first hit the
PARIS (AP) — In garish sexual identities can be ful- mainstream with Madon-
makeup and dangerously ly expressed without fear of na's 1990 song and video
high heels, a black male reprisals. "Vogue," in which the sing-
dancer's outstretched arms "Not many people realize er lists a roll call of all-white
aggressively slice the air in but voguing, it's political. Hollywood icons — Mari-
time to the Paris nightclub When they were lining the lyn Monroe, James Dean,
music until suddenly, he streets in France with angry Grace Kelly, and Bette Da-
drops "dead" on the floor. anti-gay marriage signs, vis — while calling on peo-
Vogue, the '80s dance the others were expressing ple to "strike a pose."
movement Madonna pop- themselves with dance on But the original movement
ularized in her hit 1990 song the Vogue runway," said was neither white nor main-
of the same name, is expe- dancer Marion Tiger Melo- stream and always closely
riencing a revival in France. dy. linked with bold identity
It's not just a flamboyant "The increased popularity politics.
pastime. For many minority of the (far-right) National Madonna was criticized for
French communities who Front (party) must also her lyrics, which some said
feel alienated over ten- have had an impact," she appropriated the move-
sions arising from divisive added. ment for the white popu-
anti-gay marriage protests France is now the world's lation (even though black
and the anti-immigration biggest voguing hub out- dancers featured in the
National Front, it's a state- side of New York. Talented video.)
ment of defiance. young dancers and drag The moves were first popu-
Many gay black and Arab queens in outlandish cos- larized in 1980s New York
youths — especially those tumes face off in compe- during exuberant Vogue
from Paris' less affluent titions, showing off moves Balls that served as a ref-
and religiously conserva- inspired by the poses of uge for the black and La-
tive suburbs — see Vogue fashion models in the pag- tino LGBT community. q