Lanny Smoot has been innovating at the Walt Disney Company for more than 25 years, and was involved in projects such as the creation of BB-8, and a realistic lightsaber that debuted at the now-closed Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. He talked to IGN about bringing Star Wars and Holodeck dreams to life, his love of inventing, and his hopes that he can be a role model for Black kids. Read more about him in this @Flipboard Storyboard.
It's hard to find Black princesses to appear at children's birthday parties and if you manage to hire one, she'll usually be appearing as Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess from the 2009 film "The Princess and The Frog." TODAY talked to women who are righting that wrong. "Having Black women play this role for little girls can be seen as a mode of resistance, a way of telling little girls that yes, you can aspire to it," says Patricia Davis, a critical/cultural studies scholar at Northeastern University.
Yesterday I finished "Walt Disney: An American Original" by Bob Thomas.
Overall, a good book that is very clear with the timeline it follows, and in how Thomas wants us to see Walt as a person.
I'm not sure I ended up liking the person he was (I can't get over how the 1940s strike shaped his politics), but made me understand him more and respect what he did well.
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform....
It's not great, but my favorite part is how it's all these cartoons like Mickey and Donald Duck and then Jack Sparrow's there like "Wait, I'm in this too!?"
DeSantis won't condemn Musk for endorsing an antisemitic post. 'I did not see the comment,' he says (apnews.com)
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform....