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Middle East | Yemen | Arts

Amani Yahya, Yemen’s first female rapper: I will find a way, I will shine

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It’s day three of the Liverpool Arab Arts festival, but one of its performers hasn’t yet been to a single event. Amani Yahya – billed as Yemen’s first female rapper – is still thousands of miles away. With her homeland on the brink of civil war, Yahya, along with her family, has had to flee to Saudi Arabia, where the kingdom’s strict rules mean her fledging musical career has come to an abrupt halt. On top of this, her visa to attend the UK festival has been denied. But, if exile and war would be enough to crush most people, the disappointment at missing the festival is the o
North America | United States | Entertainment

Hollywood accused of gender bias in hiring Female directors

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The ACLU is asking federal and California civil rights agencies to investigate what it calls "the systemic failure" to hire female directors in the entertainment industry. The ACLU of Southern California and the national ACLU Women's Rights Project said Tuesday they were moved to act after compiling statistical evidence of "dramatic disparities" in the hiring of women as film and television directors. This was bolstered, they said, by anecdotal accounts from more than 50 female directors. "Hearing such an outcry about it, and when it's backed up with statistics, it's a pretty solid sign
North America | United States | Culture

Former NBC News Reporter Lisa Myers: Television Journalism Is Deteriorating, “has all the depth of Twitter.”

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Lisa Myers, an NBC News veteran who retired in 2014, is scheduled to give a speech in Des Moines about her career in television. And her diagnosis of the industry as it currently stands is, shall we say, unflattering. “I am going to talk about the deterioration in the quality of journalism you see on TV,” she told the Des Moines Register. “There is less and less interest in network television today holding the White House or any other part of government accountable. I fear there is a calculation that the audiences they are trying to reach don’t care that much about the serious news.

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