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Disney Accused of “Browning Up” White Extras on Live Action Aladdin Set
Posted on: 08 Jan 2018
Recently, Disney came under fire for “browning up” white extras on the Surrey, the UK set of the highly anticipated live action Aladdin. According to The Sunday Times, Disney admitted to doing this and “says it resorted to darkening white people for roles requiring skills that could not be readily found in the Asian community, such as stunt men, dancers and camel handlers.” At this point, Disney should know better. Over one million people of Indian, Arab, Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage live in London alone. Kaushal Odedra, who worked on the…
Hulu Revives ‘Animaniacs’ with 2-Season Order
Posted on: 05 Jan 2018
Twenty years have passed since the beloved “Animaniacs” left the air on The WB Network, and it now has a two season revival straight to series that will live on Hulu thanks to the streaming company, Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Television. With the deal, the streaming service will own the rights to “Animaniacs,” “Pinky and the Brain,” the subsequent “Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain” and the complete “Tiny Toon Adventures” collection. Those episodes are available to stream now exclusively on Hulu. The revival of “Animaniacs” will air in 2020.…
Google Hit With Gender-Pay Lawsuit
Posted on: 04 Jan 2018
Four former Google employees, all of whom have worked in a variety of different roles within the company, have recently come forward to be a part of the revised gender-pay lawsuit that was filed on Wednesday. Three of the four women were also a part of a lawsuit filed in September that suggested women were paid less than their male co-workers. The three were Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease and Kelli Wisuri. Ellis worked as a software engineer, Pease was in various management roles and Wisuri was in various sales roles.…
Bernie Sanders Calls for the U.S. to Be More Like Iceland
Posted on: 03 Jan 2018
Bernie Sanders called for the United States to start acting more like Iceland and start legally enforcing equal pay for men and women across the country on Tuesday. The independent senator from Vermont posted the statement on Facebook: “We must follow the example of our brothers and sisters in Iceland and demand equal pay for equal work now, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality. As we fight back Republican efforts to revert women’s rights to second-class, it is important to not lose sight that our real goal is to…
Logan Paul and YouTube: What Needs to Happen
Posted on: 03 Jan 2018
In the past year, the content sharing website YouTube has revamped its policies to be stricter on what can be uploaded, said in videos and so on. Many have reacted to this by saying that the system doesn’t catch everything, and in this case, YouTube failed. One of YouTube’s most popular uploaders, Logan Paul, posted a video on the website for which many criticized both him for uploading and YouTube for not catching sooner. Logan Paul is a vlogger who uploads his daily life with videos that are usually at…
