• ‘Gone with the Wind’ will return to HBO Max with lecture on racial themes

    ‘Gone with the Wind’ will return to HBO Max with lecture on racial themes

    “Gone with the Wind” is coming back. HBO Max will again start streaming the controversial slavery-era movie — with a lecture about the racial themes that first got it pulled, according to the scholar providing the intro. “I will provide an introduction placing the film in its multiple historical contexts,” cinema professor Jacqueline Stewart wrote …
  • Hulu shifts ‘Love, Victor’ and ‘Taste the Nation’ premieres from Juneteenth

    Hulu shifts ‘Love, Victor’ and ‘Taste the Nation’ premieres from Juneteenth

    Hulu is moving up the premieres of new series “Love, Victor” and “Taste the Nation,” originally slated for Friday, June 19. The “Love, Simon” offshoot will debut June 17; the new docu-series “Taste the Nation” with Padma Lakshmi will be released on June 18. “This June 19 — Juneteenth — will mark 155 years since …
  • Twitter announces Juneteenth is official company holiday

    Twitter announces Juneteenth is official company holiday

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Tuesday that moving forward, the company will celebrate Juneteenth as an official corporate holiday. The annual festival marks the date on June 19, 1865, when the abolition os slavery was announced in the state of Texas. The social network will observe the holiday “forevermore,” Dorsey tweeted, as will Square, the …