Candace Owens Implies That White Actors Could Portray The Obamas, Twitter Users Determined That Was A Lie
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Conservative pick-me Candace Owens caught heat on Twitter after claiming that Black actress Jodie Turner-Smith was an appropriate pick for lead in a new miniseries highlighting Anne Boleyn’s life. The staunch Republican commentator made an absurd comparison of Turner-Smith’s portrayal of a white woman to white entertainers’ ability to portray Black figures.
“I’m actually totally fine with Jodie Turner playing the role of Anne Boleyn so long as the radical left promises to keep their mouth shut if in the future Henry Caville is selected to play Barack Obama and Rachel McAdams can play Michelle. Not double standards- K?” she wrote.
WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North
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Tiffany Forte trains a client at Kinesis in Georgetown. Photo courtesy of Terrance Forte’ of Forte Fitography.
Sunny Miller was one of the last people SoulCycle furloughed in July.
After working for the company for five years and getting promoted to master instructor in 2019, the 36-year-old Shaw resident suddenly found herself without a job. However, Miller quickly pivoted, and decided to leave SoulCycle and start her own fitness business, Hustle, in early fall of 2020.
“Once the [furlough] happened, I was just like, ‘OK, I don’t know what they’re thinking or what’s going to happen, and I just can’t rest my life and whatnot in someone else’s hands and wait and wonder,’” Miller says. “So I basically just decided that I was going to branch off and do what I love and do what I know.”
WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North Carolina startup/tech world. “The Headliners” is a multi-part weekly roundup of upcoming events to add to your calendar.
Following is a list of March events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area. To find out what’s happening this month in cities outside of the Triangle, check out part two of the “Headliners” column. Another post highlights events coming up in April.
If you’d like your event to be included, feel free to send me an email.