Zach Galifianakis once took his monologue to a preschool. This is a clip from his prematurely cancelled show on VH1 called Late World With Zach aired during the spring of 2002.
John Legend on Ending Racism
AP: Common received some backlash for his comments about ending racism on “The Daily Show” last week. What are your thoughts?
John Legend: Oh yeah, I heard a little bit about it and I understand what he’s saying because I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other’s humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently. But I think it’s not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it’s important that that goes both ways. It’s important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.
It’s important for us also to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration, which is what I talked about at the Oscars. And mass incarceration is a policy that’s kind of built up over the last four decades and it’s destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it’s fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it’s kind of a manifestation of structural racism. So when you think about that kind of thing, it’s not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.
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Monica Lewinsky’s Ted Talk: The Price Of Shame
In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become a constant. In a brave talk, she takes a look at our “culture of humiliation,” in which online shame equals dollar signs — and demands a different way.
Video: Chris Farley and Tim Meadows In a 1989 Second City Performance
Watch Chris Farley and Tim Meadows play Wrigley Field security guards in 1989, originally performed in the Second City Revue “It Was 30 Years Ago Today.”
https://youtu.be/MwOAIk_HxbY
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath Reveals Heavy Metal’s Bloody Origins In New Animated Short
67 years ago last month. clouds blackened the skies over Birmingham, England to herald the birth of the future Father of Heavy Metal, Anthony Frank “Tony” Iommi of Black Sabbath. But did you know that if it weren’t for a tragic industrial accident which chopped off the tops of two of the fingers on his fretting hand, he might not ever have created the heavy metal guitar sound that has reverberated through the ages? The new VH1.com animated short The Complete History of Heavy Metal: Fingers Bloody Fingers explores how the guitarist made “a good thing off a bad thing.”
Watch this exclusive online and get a whole new appreciation for Tony Iommi’s legendary guitar work and learn all the different things you can do with a plastic soap bottle.
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Flowchart to help you figure out if Drake dissed you on “6pm In New York”
Drake continued with this third installment in his “In the AM” series, following “9AM In Dallas” and “5AM In Toronto”. This hook-less track features Drake attacking several figures in the rap game for four minutes straight.
Slaight Family Foundation announces $7M in donations to seven Canadian NGOs
The Slaight Family Foundation today announced that it will donate $7 million to support seven Canadian non-governmental organizations. The donation will be split equally among all seven groups, which include Stephen Lewis Foundation, War Child, Free The Children, Right To Play, Human Rights Watch, Partners In Health Canada, and World Vision.
The donations aim to support Canada’s efforts in global humanitarianism. The work of these NGOs will be supported over the next four years as they aim to create change in seven unique ways across the globe.
“The work these seven NGOs are doing is critically important. When we were selecting different organizations to partner with, it really came down to the versatility of these projects and the need for change in these regions,” saidGary Slaight, President and CEO of Slaight Family Foundation. “We hope these gifts will benefit many people for years to come, and that we inspire others to support humanitarianism efforts on a global scale.”
The gifts were announced today at an event hosted by the Slaight Family Foundation. Leaders in Canadian humanitarianism and business leaders were also present. Chief executive officers from all seven NGOs spoke about the importance of these gifts and the projects they will support.
“The work that we do as humanitarians is only made possible by the generosity of others. The generosity we’ve seen from the Slaight Family Foundation is an inspiring example of those who want to make a difference in the world,” saidDave Toycen, President and CEO of World Vision. “At the end of the day, our dream is to change the lives of women, men and children around the world, and these donations help make that dream a reality.”
The donations announced today will fund seven special projects in different regions throughout the globe. Each project will touch a different group of equally important recipients, including women and children in Thailand, grandmothers and orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, and victims of war and human rights violations in Cambodia and beyond.
The Slaight Family Foundation Gifts, in detail:
Stephen Lewis Foundation
Support to grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
The Stephen Lewis Foundation will continue to work with grassroots organizations to improve the livelihood and security of grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS. Support will be provided through food security, income-generation opportunities, and housing for grandmothers and orphans in their care, as well as national convenings of grandmother groups in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.
War Child
Justice support to abused mothers and children in war torn countries
Support for mothers and children that have experienced abandonment and violence inflicted by war is critical. War Child aims to expand current justice programs to additional war torn countries where the need it evident. These programs rebuild legal structures, provide access to free legal counsel and ensure authorities understand the meaning of rights.
Free The Children
Agriculture and food security in Kenya
This project focuses on community based support for 2,000 farmers in 20 Kenyan communities through training and resource availability. Agricultural education will be offered through school based support, which will focus on training and support work on farms, agricultural clubs, and construction of school based green houses for school and home consumption.
Right To Play
Child centered learning in Thailand
To help with the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of children in Thailand, Right To Play will focus on improving life skills through sport and play based learning activities. The donation will improve access to teachers and volunteers and increase the capacity to incorporate play into school activities.
Human Rights Watch
Access to clean water and sanitation in Thailand
Developing expertise on rights to clean water and sanitation is the focus of this project. Increasing women’s rights and developing sophisticated methodologies for documenting economic, social and culture rights will assist in gaining access to clean water and sanitation.
Partners In Health Canada
First residencies in emergency medicine in Haiti
Over the next five years, Partners In Health will train 18 residents in emergency medical care to help assist with trauma, triage and disaster relief in Haiti. Processes will also be set up to ensure a transfer of skills to other medical professionals in the area.
World Vision
Protecting human rights in Cambodia
World Vision will work to prevent human rights violations in Cambodia through education and assistance. Work will focus on advocating new policy initiatives to government, raising the profile of human rights issues within Cambodia, and helping victims of human rights injustice transition back into the community.
Andy Kim Gets It Right On Having Friends In The Music Industry
I always thought my career at the beginning was more about courage than talent. It went from a dream to being in an environment with Jeff and Lieber & Stoller and Don Kirshner and Phil Spector – my transistor radio came to life. But for all the hits I had at the time – with John Lennon giving me my gold record for ‘Rock Me Gently’ – you get lost in the fact that you have so many friends. It wasn’t reality. You’re on the Billboard charts? You got tons of friends. Not on the charts? People don’t call you back. – Andy Kim, Rolling Stone
The Swedes have the best way of teaching kids about sex
Into the cartoon world we go, the Swedes have created a sex education video that is utterly untamed and fun to watch. Heck, it might even be tremendously educational, if I could understand the language. But I’m going to guess it’s all correct – look how happy and catchy that little tune is – it must be true!
https://youtu.be/50mtASxdnow
For Your Inner Bruce Lee: Nunchucks iPhone Case
Sad enough for the 12-year-old or Bruce Lee inside all of us, there are all too few opportunities to whip around a pair of nunchucks in contemporary adult society.
Until now.