Even after years of doing her book club and weathering her share of controversies, Oprah Winfrey clearly wasn’t prepared for the backlash she received after picking “American Dirt” as the first selection for her Apple TV Plus series. Jeanine Cummins’ book about Mexican migrants has both become a bestseller and earned loud backlash, most notably from Latinx writers who have not, unlike Cummins, gotten a seven-figure advance to tell their stories. Despite the growing calls to rescind the selection, Winfrey stood by “American Dirt,” and on March 6, released two episodes about the book and its reception that attempted to “lean into this conversation” rather than ignore it. The result is a tangled knot of good intentions and tense confrontations that, despite her determination to do so, Winfrey doesn’t quite manage to unravel.
The choice to drill down into the mess rather than gloss it over is an admirable and unsurprising instinct from Winfrey,...
The choice to drill down into the mess rather than gloss it over is an admirable and unsurprising instinct from Winfrey,...
- 3/6/2020
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Kind Los Angeles, an exclusive cocktail reception benefitting Kids In Need Of Defense (Kind), was hosted by Wilmer Valderrama at the new Bolon Los Angeles showroom and historic Helms Design Center in Culver City on Saturday, August 4.
Elle McLemore , Wilmer Valderrama and Zuri Adele
Credit/Copyright: Nina Prommer/Kind
Kind Los Angeles introduced the La entertainment, design and philanthropic communities to Kind. The event highlighted Kind’s work protecting and defending immigrant children suffering in detention centers during the current border crisis. Kind provides high quality pro bono legal representation to immigrant children separated from their parents and helps to reunite children with their parents and families.
Presented by Bolon and Boom Events, the cocktail party was hosted by actor and activist Wilmer Valderrama who participated in a special presentation with Kind President Wendy Young; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sonia Nazario; and Alejandra Valdez, a teenage former Kind client originally from El Salvador.
Elle McLemore , Wilmer Valderrama and Zuri Adele
Credit/Copyright: Nina Prommer/Kind
Kind Los Angeles introduced the La entertainment, design and philanthropic communities to Kind. The event highlighted Kind’s work protecting and defending immigrant children suffering in detention centers during the current border crisis. Kind provides high quality pro bono legal representation to immigrant children separated from their parents and helps to reunite children with their parents and families.
Presented by Bolon and Boom Events, the cocktail party was hosted by actor and activist Wilmer Valderrama who participated in a special presentation with Kind President Wendy Young; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sonia Nazario; and Alejandra Valdez, a teenage former Kind client originally from El Salvador.
- 8/8/2018
- Look to the Stars
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