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Warner Bros. Television's writer and director workshops for fostering emerging talent are now set to be housed within Warner Bros. Discovery's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) unit. ....
The first hybrid edition of the American Black Film Festival will feature a robust slate of speakers including Issa Rae, Judge Greg Mathis and more. ....
Tweet Perseverance, NASA’s latest rover to head to Mars, landed successfully on the Red Planet about 3:55 Eastern on Thursday, ushering in a new era of Mars exploration for the space agency. Perseverance, which launched in July 2020, carries a lot more scientific equipment and instruments than its sibling Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012. Included in that equipment is a way of collecting samples to be sent back to Earth, as well as a Mars first: A helicopter! The aerial acrobatics performed by the rover during landing included a super-sonic dive through the atmosphere, the deployment of the largest supersonic parachute to ever be deployed on another planet, the use of radar to determine an appropriate landing spot, a rocket-powered-descent to just over the surface (after disconnecting from the parachute), and a perilous sky crane final twenty-meter drop from the rocket platform to the surface of the planet. After Percy (a nickname given the rover) touches ....