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Maná said Nicky Jam? Maná Pulls Nicky Jam Collab After He Endorses Trump: Band ‘Doesn’t Work With Racists’

The premiere episode of Season 2 has been uploaded to YouTube for free.

Oprah is hosting a virtual town hall tonight. Do people know that she just started her official YouTube channel?

Personally, I wasn’t at all thinking the name change had to do with one name being problematic, but that Duprée might be signaling a very distinct genealogical signpost.

For many years, As The World Turns had a strong connection to Chicago. Many of the characters frequented Chicago on business and commerce. From what I remember (someone can correct me if I’m wrong) Tamara Tunie’s character Jessica Griffin, although the character was born and raised in the Bronx was living and working in Chicago when Tom Hughes recruited her to move to Oakdale to join his law firm.

And it showed, particularly during the pandemic and even afterward as many people skipped screenings and checkups for years. One final note about the Teamsters leadership. Teamsters union pays $2.9m to settle racial discrimination lawsuit In case you can’t read the full article via that link- https://archive.ph/3You8 Here’s the true lede: “Exclusive: union’s president, Sean O’Brien, accused of having ‘publicly humiliated’ Black and Hispanic workers”

I mentioned this upthread too.

I didn’t see your response as a dismissal of those concerns at all. One of the things I appreciate most about this message board in particular is the fact that we can discuss these issues and I appreciate it being brought up. It is indeed early casting and I expect to see the spectrum of skin tones and shades represented. I also hope whoever is peeping our comments on this board will be reminded that we are mindful so they should also be mindful. I admit, I didn’t pay much attention to the earlier character descriptions because I knew there would be some changes. I think of my own writing of characters and there are almost always changes.

Me too. Care to share? Inquiring minds want to know. Now that you mention reasons at least one is coming to mind lol.

Not to stir up anything but I do think @Darn’s concerns are valid. We do need a diversity of skin tones, hair textures, etc if this is going to be a good representation of even a family. Colorism is a real issue (even KSJ spoke in somewhat scathing terms of Y&R’s issues with colorism. In addition to TT, I also said that I want TP and LL and LR because all are talented (TP is also a singing powerhouse), experienced in the daytime soap world and telegenic. We do need to see the skin tone spectrum represented and to avoid those mistakes borne of pathology that have been committed on soaps of the previous generations.

Yeah, I think that the core family cast should take priority. It’s very early casting announcements.

The thought did cross my mind lol. I would love to see Lamman Rucker and Loren Lott cast too.

Tamara Tunie and Tonya Pinkins were my two top picks for women characters. I am also hoping that Tonya Pinkins will be in the cast as well.

See, I knew the the previous title was a working one and not the definitive title. I expected it to change. Still hoping to see Tonya Pinkins in there too, even if it’s recurring.

I love this for TT. MVJ making a top boss choice right out of the GATES. 😉

It’s disturbing. I remember some people were asking for a recast Olivia. So why not her? I mean, it would be odd to see someone other than Tonya but at least Olivia’s son is on the canvas so there would be some connection. It feels like they want to bring on another character from one of the show’s golden years just to ruin her. When I first saw the headline, I was dubious but thought I would see what it was about, maybe tune to see how Williams is doing. Now I’m sure I won’t watch.

Sorry, but it’s a no for me. As much as I like Pettiford, I am not digging this, she should be playing a new character. There’s absolutely no reason to bring back the character, as 90% of the characters she interacted with aren’t even on the show anymore.

Can we be real, for a moment? I know from very personal experience, there’s a Black Teamsters and there’s a white Teamsters. Teamsters’ Black Caucus Endorses Harris While Parent Union Stays Silent

Has anyone been following this case? This is so sickening that I had reservations about posting when I read about it weeks ago. Since we are posting about Sean Combs, people might have the constitution to also read about this violation. 'I am a rapist,' says Frenchman accused of inviting scores of men to rape his drugged wife

The Russian troll bots are at it again but Microsoft is working fairly quickly to uncover these covert attacks on the VP. Fake Kamala hit-and-run story is the work of Russian propaganda group, Microsoft says

If you can stomach it.

In a way, this reminds me of Trump. When certain people get to a station in life where they believe they have been elevated to such a rarified air that they cannot be touched, their abuse of their status and other people will usually follow as a result. It’s about exploitation of their power and on other people. At a certain point, no one will tell them “no” because those people are gone for whatever reason, so they are surrounded by people who cater to their worst impulses. People may spin out eventually, while people like Combs and Trump become more vile with each passing year. Both Trump and Combs aspire to be mafiosos. Listen to the way they express themselves, the language they use. When you go back in each man’s personal history, each was far from the tough guy persona he tries to portray himself as being.