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You might recall a few months back, before he was projecting his insecurities on to Oprah and beating his chest attempting to intimidate Lavar Ball, Donald Trump was in his feelings on Twitter after Stephen Curry of the Golden State …

Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes From The Field begins abruptly, presenting its establishing theme and pattern, explored with burgeoning intensity in her one-woman show: the connective circulatory machine that is America’s education and prison systems. NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill (via Smith) refers to it as the “school-to-prison pipeline,” which evolves into the […]

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The Ava Duvernay-directed “A Wrinkle in Time” will be hitting theaters next month, and two organizations are coming together to give underprivileged children a chance to watch the children’s book classic on big screens. AMC Theaters and Color of Change are joining forces to create the Give A Child The Universe initiative, a chance for these kids to see the film for free at AMC theaters starting on March 9, Deadline reports. Using the #BlackPantherChallenge as inspiration, this new initiative is a way for an individual or group to purchase tickets for children. This campaign will allow low-income kids, identified through a network of community partners, to watch matinee showings of the Disney movie at their local AMC theater.  The #BlackPantherChallenge raised over $400,000 for black kids to go watch the Marvel blockbuster. “Color of Change believes in the power of images and supports those working to change the rules in Hollywood so that inclusive, empathetic and human portrayals of Black people and people of color are prominent on the screen,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change in statement.  Duvernay tweeted her support of the movement on Friday, calling the initiative “very moving.”  You can donate a ticket to the initiative here.

Women's March co-chair Tamika Mallory voiced her frustration with the national response towards the Florida school shooting as compared to the shootings we see taking place in urban neighborhoods. Mallory was a guest on The View alongside #MeToo founder Tarana Burke and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors to talk with host Sunny Hostin about the impact of their movements. And she said that her frustration is based on how certain voices and stories are being erased to accommodate this new gun violence prevention movement.  "I was so frustrated over the last few days watching this storyline come out..." she told Hostin. “Seventeen people...mostly children..white children are shot and killed in a school in Florida, and somehow that erases the 17 children shot on the corners of Chicago,” she continued. “That’s a problem when we are not doing the intersectional work to be able to have both conversations at once." She made it clear that she fully supported the young people behind the call for stricter gun laws. But she says the erasure of one group for another was a dangerous line of thinking because it also affects how movements are funded.  Mallory also pointed out that the bigger organizations that are now getting involved in these movements, often steal the hard work already done by grassroots organizations on the ground. “It has been mom and pop organizations on street corners that are on the ground that are doing the real work," she said. "And we as people of good moral conscious need to pay attention to where we put our resources and our time." Watch the full interview here.