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Prominent Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga on Monday won an appeal against an "inciting violence" conviction she received for staging a silent protest.…
Coincidence or not, Yaathisai, the latest Tamil period film with an all-new cast, will draw comparisons with Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan - 2 since the latter is gearing up for…
The life-altering phone call came unexpectedly. It was August 2012. A Thursday, around 4 p.m.Sherrill Roland was packing to leave for grad school, where he’d be pursuing an MFA in studio…
Nearly a year after being sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police about orchestrating a hate crime against himself, former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett has officially filed to…
In December, Harvey Weinstein was convicted in L.A. of the 2013 rape of “Jane Doe 1.” On Thursday, he got a 16-year sentence that, added to the 23-year sentence he’s been serving in New…