Genius Gets To The Heart Of Who Aretha Franklin Was
Audiences got their first look at the anthology series starring Cynthia Erivo at a special premiere screening March 11
Last night ESSENCE co-hosted a special virtual screening of the upcoming National Geographic series
Genius: Aretha starring Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. As part of the event, attendees got an early look at the first episode of the anthology and were treated to a pre-show performance by c-Live of the Clive Davis Institute at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and the Detroit Youth All-Star Choir. There was also a surprise appearance by Antonique Smith who plays Franklin’s mother. Following the exclusive screening, Erivo gave a resounding performance from the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, not unlike those she delivers throughout the series.
Maahra Hill plays Delilah Connolly in Delilah. Photo courtesy of OWN Delilah cast, left to right, Braelyn Rankins, Maahra Hill, Kelly Jacobs and Khalil Johnson. Photo courtesy of OWN
LOS ANGELES, March 9 (UPI) Maahra Hill, who stars as Charlotte, N.C., attorney Delilah Connolly on OWN s new series,
Delilah, said her character is a natural hero. Delilah would be the David in the David and Goliath story, Hill said in a phone interview. There s a heroic nature to her.
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In her private practice, Delilah represents individuals fighting against powerful corporate opponents. In the first episode of the series, she is hesitant to take on a wrongful termination case.
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There is this neurological phenomenon known as synesthesia. It’s when your senses kind of overlap. You might read numbers as colors. One is white, two is red, three is blue, four is yellow, for example. In other instances, you might taste noise. There’s not a lot known about the condition, but it affects approximately three percent of the world’s population. Some studies suggest it exists more predominantly in creative minds. Trevante Rhodes tells me that, to him, the color of
The United States vs. Billie Holiday is maroon.
Moonlight is magenta, in case you were curious.
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The annual attempt by Utah lawmakers to bypass the signature-gathering path for candidates to get on the primary ballot is headed to the Senate floor.
A Senate committee gave the thumbs up to SB205 on Monday, to give political parties several options for determining how candidates qualify for the primary ballot.
“We have about $2.5 million being spent on the signature-gathering process over the last six years,” says bill sponsor Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton. He added that “99.3% of elections during that time were won by candidates that qualified for the ballot through the convention process.”
McCay’s bill creates four categories of political parties, with various paths for candidates to win the nomination, including one that would allow the party to send the top two vote-getters at convention to the primary unless one secured two-thirds support from delegates and clinched the nomination.
Utah legislation would address the âconfusingâ system to help the homeless
The bill would create a new Office of Homeless Services and put a single person in charge of overseeing policy affecting the stateâs unsheltered populations.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) People experiencing homelessness seek shelter under the freeway on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. A Utah House committee voted 7-1 Thursday in support of a bill that seeks to address problems in the stateâs homeless services system. | Updated: 8:00 p.m.
The bill, HB347, would create a new Office of Homeless Services within the Department of Workforce Services and would put a single person in charge of overseeing policy affecting the stateâs unsheltered populations, in accordance with the recommendations of a report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute last fall.