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An attorney for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition said current and former Paula Deen employees told him the famous cook and her brother discriminated against black employees, one of whom was consistently referred to as “my little monkey,” reports the Huffington Post.

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Now that celebrity chef Paula Deen has become her own Finishing Butter by admitting, in a legal deposition, to using the n-word and planning a slavery-themed wedding, the predictable backlash against her shaming has begun. 

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Three days after the Food Network announced it would not be renewing the contract of Paula Deen in the wake of her racism scandal, Smithfield Foods, a global pork producing company based in Smithfield, Va., has just announced it has fired the chef.

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Roland Emmerich, the director behind such bombastically apocalyptic visions as “Independence Day,” “Godzilla,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012.” Emmerich has gleefully destroyed major monuments, turning the White House into kindling…

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Queen Latifah is attached to star in a biopic on the life of Peggielene Bartels, the then 55-year-old Ghanaian American secretary (in 2008), living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C., who learned that she had become the King of Otuam…

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Wesley has exhibited an impressive range of acting talent. In addition, he’s a gifted and accomplished dancer and athlete, and has starred in countless movies, television shows and commercials. He made his television debut at just 8, appearing on the smash Fox series 21 “Jump Street”

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James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters. But his portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in HBO’s landmark drama series “The Sopranos” was just one facet of an actor who created a rich legacy of film and stage work in a life cut short.

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Cyndi Lauper, making her Broadway debut, won a Tony Award on Sunday for writing the 15-song score to “Kinky Boots” and Christopher Durang’s comical “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has won the best play Tony.

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An unconventional biopic based on the life of playwright, author, activist Lorraine Hansberry, is in development, with long time collaborators Taye Hansberry, and Numa Perrier penning the script to a film that will star Taye in the title role

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As if you’re not all already excited about the upcoming third season of the series, BBC One has released a full synopsis for the first episode which sets things up, and kick off the four-episode season, next month (for those in the UK), and in September (for those in the USA).

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