Hathaway attacks ‘white privilege’
Anne Hathaway has urged white people to ask “how decent are we really” after a black teenager was killed in California. Nia Wilson, 18, died after being stabbed in the neck in Oakland recently. A suspect, John lee Cowell, was arrested in connection with the attack. Officials said it was unclear if the incident was racially motivated.
Hathaway wrote on Instagram: “[Wilson’s death] is unspeakable and must not be met with silence … She was a black woman and she was murdered in cold blood by a white man. White people — including me, including you — must take into the marrow of our privileged bones the truth that all black people fear for their lives daily in America and have done so for generations. We must ask our (white)selves - how ‘decent’ are we reallyij Not in our intent, but in our actionsij In our lack of actionij”
Wilson was returning home with her sister from a family event when she was stabbed, in what the local police chief, Carlos Rojas, called “the most vicious attack” he had seen in nearly three decades. Rojas said the attack had been unusually quick. “It’s more reminiscent of a prison yard assault. They do their attack so quickly that before anybody can really react, the person takes off running.” The mayor of Oakland, libby Schaaf, said: “The fact that [the] victims were both young African American women stirs deep pain and palpable fear.”
Warnings against Kiki challenge
Police around the world have warned people against doing the “Kiki challenge”, after multiple people attempting the viral dance have been injured. The “Kiki challenge”, also known as the “In My Feelings challenge”, involves jumping out of a moving car and dancing alongside it to Drake’s hit In My Feelings, while the car continues moving.
Some videos of the dances uploaded to the internet show oblivious dancers crashing into poles, tripping on potholes or falling out of the cars. One video shows a woman having her handbag stolen while attempting the challenge and another shows a man being hit by a car while he dances. The craze began when internet comedian Shiggy posted a video to Instagram of himself dancing to the song. Since his video went viral, thousands of people have taken up the challenge.
Celebrities, including Will Smith and Ciara, have joined in, posting their own videos of the dance — though neither jumped out of or danced alongside a moving car.
Police from around the world, including in India, Spain, the US, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates, have warned people that the dance challenge is dangerous and people caught trying it could face criminal charges. Mumbai police wrote on Twitter that the dance could put others’ lives at risk, warning people to “Desist from public nuisance or face the music!”
Rare film posters go under hammer
When Derek East retired from teaching mathematics in Basingstoke, the brightly coloured world of hyperbole and dramatic cinematic tag lines took over from his old school life. By the time of his death in 2011 at the age of 72, he had amassed an astonishingly comprehensive collection of vintage film posters. Now that collection, featuring some of the world’s best-loved stars, including Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and Harrison Ford, in films such as Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Spielberg’s Raiders of the lost Ark, will go under the hammer at a Surrey auction house on Thursday.
East had been a film fan while growing up in the small town of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, often seeing six different releases a week in the local cinema. During his life as a schoolteacher he carried on the hobby, sharing the enthusiasm with his partner Pat, until her early death. At that point, in grief, East immersed himself in the world of film memorabilia professionally and set himself up in the collecting and dealing business, recruiting his brother, Alex, to help him run a series of small stalls.