Hollywood joins protests for George Floyd - Lifestyle

Lashed by a CNN anchor, the stars of the show took to the field after the killing of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis: "What's going on in Hollywood? Strangely silent," Don Lemon had noticed on the fifth night of the protests that ignited the major US cities, from Los Angeles to New York and Washington. The mobilization was not long in coming, from Ariana Grande to Beyonce ', Rihanna and Cardi B.
Jamie Foxx joined the marches in Minneapolis , as did Kendrick Sampson of' Insecure ': hit by a rubber bullet and beaten by a policeman during a demonstration in Los Angeles posted the pictures on Instagram. The world of music stops for 24 hours: a blackout of solidarity to which maxi-labels have joinedsuch as Warner, Sony, Universal and Columbia. Spike Lee led the stars' shielding with a short that debuted in Lemon's special on the protests. "Will the story stop repeating itself?" Asks the dean of the black directors in the short film that mixes clips about the arrests of Floyd and Eric Garner, another black man killed by police in 2014 on Staten Island (the agent involved, Daniel Pantaleo , has never been indicted) with scenes from 'Do the Right Things' in which the character of Radio Raheem dies strangled by the police with a hold on his throat. "How can people not understand why we behave this way? This is not new, we have seen it with the riots of the sixties, the assassination of MLK, every time we do not get justice people react to make themselves heard. This country it's built on our corpses, "said the African American director whose next film 'From 5 Bloods' out of five black soldiers in Vietnam will debut on Netflix on June 12.
Indignation on the other hand knows no color and the target of criticism is often Donald Trump. After pop star Taylor Swift (86 million followers on Twitter, five million more than the president), another white artist, Lady Gaga, has denounced the failure of the tycoon "which holds the most powerful office in the world but continues not to offer nothing but ignorance, prejudice and racism. " The stars didn't just talk, they also opened the wallet: Chrissy Teigen will donate $ 200,000 to pay the arrests for marches. The Safdie brothers of 'Uncut Gems' did the same, launching a chain of donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund that joined Steve Carell, Ben Schwartz, Harry Styles and Don Cheadle.