Fans love “Lovecraft Country,” one of the most popular shows of 2020, starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, but it’s not getting love from HBO.
The network confirmed to Deadline that the show, despite the 10-episode season’s popularity, will not be getting a Season 2.
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Bill Cosby defiantly proclaimed his “innocence” in a tweet after being sprung from prison Wednesday — and included a photo of himself raising his right hand in a fist.
“I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence,” the disgraced TV star wrote
“Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal.”
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Rep. Cori Bush celebrated the signing into law of Juneteenth as a federal holiday by urging the passage of social programs like reparations and ending what she referred to as housing and “education apartheid” — calling it prioritizing “Black liberation in its totality.”
Bush (D-Mo.) made the comments on Twitter Wednesday, just before Congress passed a law establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday, which President Biden signed Thursday afternoon.
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Find a better school for your son.
That’s the advice defeated teachers at beleaguered PS 147 in Cambria Heights, Queens, gave to mom Keisha Ellis when she asked about improving the 11-year-old boy’s performance.
“It’s frightening to hear that from a teacher talking to you about your son,” she told The Post. “They didn’t say they would work with him or try to address it, they just said we should leave.”
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Mayoral hopeful Maya Wiley has been endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and other fellow Democrats who regularly decry the power of special interests and big money in politics — even though she has for decades been bankrolled by hedge-fund billionaire George Soros.
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Eric Adams now holds a significant lead in the New York City mayoral race, jumping six points ahead of rival Andrew Yang in the latest poll — as voters trust the retired police captain most to fight rising crime in the city.
The new NY1/ IPSOS poll, conducted in May and released Monday, has Adams topping the pack with 22 percent support from likely Democratic voters, followed by Andrew Yang at 16 percent, and former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia at 15 percent.
That’s an impressive jump for the Brooklyn borough president, who trailed Yang by 9 percent in April’s poll.
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The Fresh Prince rides to the rescue.
Will Smith is the latest celebrity to express support for Naomi Osaka, who abruptly withdrew from the French Open on Monday over mental health concerns.
Osaka had announced the decision on Twitter Monday after getting fined $15,000 for making good on her promise to abstain from press conferences after her Sunday victory at Roland Garros over 63rd-ranked Patricia Maria Tig. The two-time US Open champion later revealed that post-match interviews made her “get huge waves of anxiety.”
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Many tennis pros have had interesting reactions to Naomi Osaka’s decision to pull out of the French Open, but Venus Williams’ might take the cake.
The 40-year-old was at a press conference coming off a first-round loss to Ekaterina Alexandrova at Roland Garros, and was asked how she coped with speaking to the media throughout her career. Osaka was originally fined for skipping her first post-match presser, and ended up withdrawing for the tournament as attention over her media boycott intensified.
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This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst race riots in US history, which destroyed much of a Tulsa neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street.” Olivia Hooker was 6 years old on that day, and hid under a table as a torch-carrying mob destroyed her home. Hooker died in 2018 at 103 years old — she was one of the oldest survivors of the massacre. A year before her death, The Postspoke to her about her memories of the devastating night — and the efforts to move forward as a country. “I lived a long time, but I didn’t live long enough to see justice,” she said at the time. Here’s a look back on that conversation.
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Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight financed the hit on Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. — an execution carried out by Nation of Islam convert and hired hitman Amir Muhammad with the help of corrupt Los Angeles cops, according to an FBI agent who worked the case and sources who have seen sealed court documents.
“All the evidence points to Amir Muhammad. He’s the one who pulled the trigger,” retired FBI agent Phil Carson, who worked the case for two years, claimed to The Post. “There were plenty of others who helped orchestrate it [and] allowed him to pull the trigger.”
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