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A slew of left-wing Hollywood celebrities and studios, including Netflix and ViacomCBS, have signed an open letter published Wednesday protesting “discriminatory” voter integrity laws that they believe will be used to restrict voter access. Among the signatories are George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix, Katy Perry, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Schumer, Mark Ruffalo, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams. Studios that added their names to the letter include Netflix and ViacomCBS, as well as the Hollywood talent agencies CAA and UTA. As Breitbart News reported , hundreds of corporations have signed the open letter, which appeared Wednesday in advertisements in the New York Times and Washington Post . The effort was spearheaded by former American Express chief executive Kenneth Chenault and Merck chief executive Kenneth Frazier, both of whom recently led a group of black business leaders urging corporations to take a stand against election … [Read more...] about George Clooney, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood Studios Sign Letter Opposing Voter Integrity Laws

One of the first times I wrote about the police killing of an unarmed Black man was when Michael Brown was gunned down in the summer of 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was a Black teenager accused of an infraction in a convenience store just before his life was taken. Last summer, six years on, I wrote about George Floyd, a Black man accused of an infraction in a convenience store, this time in Minneapolis. Both men were killed in the street in broad daylight. Brown was shot. An officer knelt on Floyd’s neck. In both cases,there were multiple community witnesses to the killings. In both cases there was a massive outcry. In both cases the men were accused of contributing to, or causing, their own deaths, in part because they had illegal drugs in their systems. Between those two killings there has been a depressing number of others. In January of 2015, The Washington Post began maintaining a database of all known fatal shootings by the police in America. Every year, the police shot … [Read more...] about Opinion: To stop these horrifying killings of Black men, our whole system of policing must be fundamentally altered

close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for March 22 Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. " Jeopardy! " viewers are calling for a boycott of the show for the two-week stretch in which Dr. Mehmet Oz will be acting as the popular game show’s guest host. The TV figure was named as one of the many guest hosts taking over the show as it continues to find a more permanent replacement for longtime host Alex Trebek , who died in November after a lengthy battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Oz, who is the host of " The Dr. Oz Show " and is an attending physician at NY Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center, has faced controversy in the past for allegedly dispensing questionable medical advice. As a result, many viewers were upset to see him take up hosting duties on the popular trivia show. In an open letter published to Medium following the announcement, … [Read more...] about ‘Jeopardy!’ viewers outraged by Dr. Oz’s guest-hosting gig, call for boycott