A South Korean court on Friday found Oh Young-soo, an actor who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a contestant in the Netflix survival drama “Squid Game,” guilty of indecent assault. Mr. Oh, 79, was given an eight-month suspended sentence and ordered to attend 40 hours of classes on sexual violence. The verdict […]
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What Happens To Famous Black Men Following Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Allegations?
The Jonathan Majors saga that has (kinda) gripped the nation for almost a year is stretching out longer than expected: His domestic violence sentencing was pushed to April 8 from Feb. 6 as his lawyers continue to work to get the guilty verdict overturned. Oscar-Winning ‘American Fiction’ Writer Cord Jefferson On The Challenge of Getting […]
Read MoreThe N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race Could Test the #MeToo Movement’s Staying Power
Roughly six years ago, as the #MeToo movement gathered steam, a credible allegation of sexual misconduct could end a political career. Al Franken, a U.S. senator of Minnesota, was forced to resign. A Democratic colleague in the House, John Conyers of Michigan, was forced out days earlier. Three Republican congressmen also stepped down: Blake Farenthold […]
Read MoreNew President of the National Association of Realtors Abruptly Resigns
The president of the embattled National Association of Realtors has resigned, just four months into her tenure. Tracy Kasper is the second president to abruptly step down from N.A.R. — an organization that has seen its power and influence wane in recent months in the wake of losing a major antitrust lawsuit and amid allegations […]
Read MoreDJ Akademiks Is the Latest Celeb Hit With Grooming Allegations … And Worse
Whew! The tea just keeps on spilling in the entertainment industry. The latest comes from Ziya Abashae, the alleged ex-girlfriend of podcaster and internet personality DJ Akademiks, after she took to social media to expose him on allegations of sexual assault. But, that’s not all he was accused of. 2023 Is Over But You Should […]
Read MoreItaly’s Raucous Holiday Classics Are Not Your Standard Hallmark Movies
On a recent evening inside the Hotel de la Poste, an alpine hotel in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy’s most ski-and-be-seen winter destination, a boisterous party celebrated the birth of a cinematic era. Forty years earlier, the libidinous, up-chalet down-chalet comedy “Christmas Holiday,” set in the lodge, was released. Nominally about a plain but lucky-in-adultery piano bar […]
Read MoreNational Association of Realtors Loses Its Grip on Real Estate Industry
The staff members of the National Association of Realtors, the largest professional organization in the United States, were in a panic. Two days before the group’s national convention, they had set up 400 exhibition booths and were expecting nearly 12,000 people to arrive for three days of speakers, training sessions and networking. But now they […]
Read MoreFrance’s President Condemns ‘Manhunt’ Against Gérard Depardieu
President Emmanuel Macron of France this week condemned what he called a “manhunt” targeting Gérard Depardieu, the embattled French actor whose worldwide fame has been tarnished in recent years by allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Macron’s comments, which prompted swift criticism, came after a documentary that aired in France this month showed the actor […]
Read MoreWomen at Fast-Growing Realty Firm Say They Were Drugged and Assaulted
The closing night party at the annual conference of eXp Realty was — in the company’s own words — “epic.” The $2 billion company is one of the fastest growing brokerages in the world, with nearly 90,000 agents. And on this night in October, eXp was showing off. Inside the Omnia nightclub at Caesar’s Palace […]
Read MoreHere’s Why Diddy, R Kelly and Other Powerful Black “Bad Boys” Are Screwed
To understand the motivations of powerful men is to understand the patriarchy, power dynamics, methods of coercion and insidious tactics that have started wars, toppled regimes and created dynasties since time immemorial. Historically, women have fallen victim to these men in manifold ways – just the cost of doing business without a Y chromosome. Da’Vine […]
Read MoreIs it a Wrap for Poorly Behaved Powerful Black Men?
To understand the motivations of powerful men is to understand the patriarchy, power dynamics, methods of coercion and insidious tactics that have started wars, toppled regimes and created dynasties since time immemorial. Historically, women have fallen victim to these men in manifold ways – just the cost of doing business without a Y chromosome. Da’Vine […]
Read MoreAs Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment
For years, conservatives have struggled to persuade American voters that the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous. Universities and their students, they’ve argued, have been increasingly clenched by suffocating ideologies — political correctness in one decade, overweening “social justice” in another, “woke-ism” most recently — that shouldn’t be dismissed as […]
Read MoreRussell Simmons Responds to Six-Year-Old Rape Allegations
I know the recent allegations against P. Diddy are at the top of everyone’s mind, and deservedly so. One of the most notable figures in hip-hop being accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women is a huge story. Small Town Horror Story: The Wrongful Rape Conviction of Anthony Broadwater Off English But don’t […]
Read MoreA Thanksgiving Week Full of Sexual Assault Lawsuits: Is This an Attack on Black Men or Just Desserts?
Last week, quite a few turkeys got carved up ahead of Thanksgiving. As we all trekked to wherever we had to in order to pretend to enjoy spending time with our various assortment of raggedy uncles, news dropped approximately every 17.8 seconds of a prominent Black male being sued based on sexual assault allegations. Eddie […]
Read MoreA Week Full of Sexual Assault Lawsuits: Is This an Attack on Black Men or Just Desserts?
Last week, quite a few turkeys got carved up ahead of Thanksgiving. As we all trekked to wherever we had to in order to pretend to enjoy spending time with our various assortment of raggedy uncles, news dropped approximately every 17.8 seconds of a prominent Black male being sued based on sexual assault allegations. Eddie […]
Read MoreThe Big #MeToo Moment for Doctors Is Finally Here
Yet all too frequently, the burden is shouldered by patients, who may feel no choice but to stay silent. For some, what’s normal during an exam is not always clear. Others are in particularly vulnerable positions: Several of Dr. Hadden’s patients were in their third trimesters of pregnancy and were more concerned with having a […]
Read MoreItaly Misses a #MeToo Moment in Prime Minister Meloni’s Breakup
Since Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, announced over social media last month that she was dumping her longtime boyfriend, Italians have hardly stopped talking about it. They have obsessed over the leaks of audio and video tapes revealing Andrea Giambruno, a television news anchor who is also the father of the prime minister’s […]
Read MoreRape, Race and a Decades-Old Lie That Still Wounds
The phone echoed in Farid El Haïry’s home in northern France. It was February 1999. A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to the gendarmerie for a chat. “I asked them why and was it urgent,” he says. It’s nothing serious, he remembers being told. Come when you […]
Read MoreMore Brokerages Leave Powerful Realtor Group
Several of the country’s largest real estate brokerages, including Coldwell Banker, Century 21 Real Estate, Sotheby’s International Realty and Re/Max, are severing their allegiance to the National Association of Realtors, a powerful trade organization whose grip on the real estate industry appears to be loosening. The Chicago-based N.A.R. is the largest professional organization in the […]
Read MoreRedfin, the Online Real Estate Broker, Leaves the National Association of Realtors
N.A.R.’s grip on the housing industry is such that not all Redfin agents can be asked to cut ties just yet. In many major U.S. cities, including Houston, Las Vegas, Nashville and Phoenix, N.A.R. so thoroughly controls access to listing databases that, without it, Redfin explained in an email, “it’s impossible to be agent.” Still, […]
Read MoreThe Failure of Progressive Movements
Three progressive movements have risen to prominence over the past 15 years and vowed to create a fairer America: Occupy Wall Street, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. All of them have had an impact. Occupy popularized the idea of the 1 percent and the 99 percent. #MeToo led to the firing (and sometimes jailing) of […]
Read MoreA Chinese Journalist Gave #MeToo Victims a Voice. Now She’s on Trial.
After two years in detention, a Chinese journalist who spoke up against sexual harassment stood trial on subversion charges on Friday along with a labor rights activist, the latest example of Beijing’s intensified crackdown on civil society. Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist who was once a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement, and her friend […]
Read MoreThe Litany of #MeToo News Continues. Is anything really changing?
The endless, relentless eruptions of sexual abuse and harassment scandals can sometimes seem like a particularly grim form of Zeno’s dichotomy paradox. Back in the 5th century B.C., the Greek philosopher described how a runner on the path to a particular destination must first traverse half the distance, and then half the remaining difference, and […]
Read MoreRubiales Quits, but Women’s Soccer in Spain Is Still Troubled
After three weeks of protests and calls for his resignation, Spain’s soccer chief, Luis Rubiales, has quit, but the problems that surfaced in the wake of his forcible kiss of a player after the Women’s World Cup remain. The player, Jennifer Hermoso, has filed a criminal complaint of secual assault against him. During the last […]
Read MoreLuis Rubiales, Spain’s Top Soccer Official, Resigns Over World Cup Kiss
The head of the Spanish soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, resigned on Sunday, weeks after kissing a member of Spain’s team winning Women’s World Cup on the lips during a medals ceremony last month, setting off a national scandal and drawing accusations of abusing his power and perpetuating sexism in the sport. In a statement posted […]
Read MoreNew York City Ballet Was in Peril. Then Came a Revival.
The national discussion over race has increased pressure on City Ballet to bring more diversity on and offstage. The company dance corps remains predominantly white, as do its audiences, but there have been signs of progress. The company has hired more Black, Latino and Asian dancers in recent years and promoted them to key positions. […]
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