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EA, ESPN, and NFL team up on Madden Bowl esports docuseries Electronic Arts, the NFL, and ESPN are collaborating on a four-week documentary series that spotlights the world’s best Madden NFL players. The “Road to the Madden Bowl” chronicles the trials and tribulations of the top players who compete in the Madden NFL championship esports competitions. The documentary starts today at 7:30 p.m. Pacific time and later segments will continue to air on ESPN2 throughout April. The “Road to the Madden Bowl” chronicles the emotional journey of world-class competition as the best Madden players in the world compete in the Madden NFL Championship Series. Since it is following this year’s competitors, the series does not specifically cover the events of the tragic shooting that occurred at a Madden event in Florida last year. All are chasing a dream of qualifying for the season-ending Madden NFL 19 Bowl, where only one will be crowned the Madden NFL 19 champion. The Madden Bowl will be held from April 25 to April 27 at the EA Broadcast Center in Redwood City, California, with the grand final airing live on ESPN2 on April 27 at 4 p.m. Pacific time. “Our continued partnership with EA SPORTS allows us to connect our audiences with the best Madden NFL talent and thrilling world of esports,” said John Lasker, vice president of digital media programming at ESPN, in a statement. “This docuseries captures all the competitive action, but more than that it introduces sports fans to the passionate players and teams they’ll see at the Madden Bowl on ESPN2 later this month.” The program will highlight competitor friendship, rivalries, teamwork, commitment and community through a narrative illustration that captures what it takes to compete at the highest level in esports. “You do not have to play video games to enjoy this docuseries,” said Todd Sitrin, senior vice president of the EA Competitive Gaming Division, in a statement. “Any sports fan will be drawn into the drama and excitement of competitive Madden through the power of storytelling. This four-week broadcast experience showcases why we have a millions-strong community of players and viewers.” Here’s the programming details: Wednesday, 4/3, 7:30 p.m. Pacific Tuesday, 4/9, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Tuesday, 4/16, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Wednesday, 4/24, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Following airing, episodes can also be found on demand across ESPN’s various media channels. via VentureBeat http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 09:08AM DMT.NEWS, @Dean Takahashi, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 09:12AM
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Crazy Wraparound Sunglasses Are Going To Take Over Your Entire Summer What happens if you stare at the sun? You begin to wonder what, if anything, will come after tiny sunglasses. Men and women alike spent the entirety of 2018 seeing the world through tiny-tinted goggles, a new beacon of our shifting relationship with fame and attention. If the big glasses of the paparazzi-manic mid-aughts were shields from the glare of public life, tiny glasses were a symbol of new values: look at me, but only as I want to be seen! But meme-ready trends, unlike diamonds or things you tweeted in 2013, are not forever. So what kind of bold silhouette could possibly follow in their teeny-tiny footsteps? Enter…racer sunglasses. Racer sunglasses—also known as wraparound sunglasses, ski sunglasses, blades, performance running goggles, shields, or baseball glasses—are the shape that will dominate your entire summer. After Balenciaga and Prada both made them for Spring 2019, the style is now heavily stocked on nearly every reputable e-commerce site, not to mention filling the racks at the fast fashion outpost of your choice. Fashion freaks and dudes just looking to perk up their beach wardrobes alike can wear this wild style. They combine the current performance gear fetish with our increasing appetite for weird clothing. In other words, racer sunglasses are basically the lovechild of clout goggles and tiny sunglasses. And they come from fashion’s current wellspring of inspiration: the ’90s. WHY?! Mr. Porter Style Director Olie Arnold says there are two trends at work here. “First, it’s clear that the ’90s are having a major resurgence, especially from brands like Balenciaga and Vetements,” he says. “And there’s no more ’90s a pair of sunglasses than the quintessential Oakley visor sunglasses.” Arnold points to icons like Michael Jordan, David Duchovny, and Andre Agassi (YAAAS!) as inspo for this look. Second, Arnold says, baseball players in particular are emerging as a new style icons, from retro, like Cal Ripken, Jr., to more contemporary. (Well…maybe.) “Today, we’re starting to see this style off the diamond and on the streets,” Arnold says. “You can just imagine A-Rod wearing this pair from Moncler.” The new A-bomb from A-Rod! Estrop That brings us to another intriguing element of the wraparound or blade sunglasses revival—many stores are carrying not simply the fashion version of the look, but the performance brands themselves. District Vision is a running apparel brand that makes a mean pair of the frames, but it is also stocked on Ssense, among the Prada and the Vetements options. Max Vallot, a cofounder of District Vision, says that the way the brand approaches sports gives their frames a certain panache, even if you aren’t putting them on to run a half marathon. They design for “mindful athletes,” he says, “those approaching sports with a deeper awareness of mind and body, as well as anything affecting this dynamic. Nowadays, being active and being mindful is aspirational. So even if our customer is not actively practicing, they tend to favor the relevant objects.” Good morning, New York! Let’s get these relevant objects! With that in mind, it’s only a matter of time until Oakley itself reemerges as the king of the look. After all, we might be wild for designer fleece, but we all know that Patagonia really makes the best version. A 1997 Los Angeles Times article writes about the source material with a poetic reverence to which every fashion writer should aspire. “The single red iridium lens stretches like a shield from brow to cheekbone and nearly halfway around the head,” it opens. “The jagged Hammerfang earpieces jut out from the temples, never bending toward the lobes.” It brags that Oakleys “flaunt an almost inhuman impenetrability.” In other words, you look at a person in mirrored, protective frames, and all you’ll see is yourself trying to figure out their secret. “The optical ideas we generate would melt the brains of mere mortals,” read the late ’90s Oakleys marketing copy. One customer, the Times reported, said his Oakleys saved him in a grizzly bear attack. via GQ http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 08:13AM DMT.NEWS, @Rachel Tashjian, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 09:12AM
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‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. A hip cocks. A shoulder jerks. The fingers fan like a Swiss Army knife that’s nothing but blades. To see a body like this — a congregation of angles kinked in opposition — is to recognize Bob Fosse’s slinky specter. Fosse died in 1987, but he still haunts Broadway, where he won a record eight Tonys for choreography, plus one for direction. He also brought home an Oscar, for “Cabaret,” and three Emmys, for “Liza with a Z.” “I don’t think it’s possible to do a musical that has dance in it and not have the influence of Fosse,” Thomas Kail said. Kail, who directed “Hamilton,” is an executive producer on “Fosse/Verdon,” a limited series that debuts on FX April 9. Though based on “Fosse,” Sam Wasson’s exhaustive 2013 biography, the series, as the name implies, twines Fosse’s story with that of Gwen Verdon, his third wife and longtime muse. Sam Rockwell plays Fosse, Michelle Williams is Verdon. Why the slash? Verdon, a knockout dancer and an unimprovable musical comedian who won four Tonys in six years, was no slouch. (Watch her in “Damn Yankees.” Her slouch is electric.) Fosse often shaped his choreography on her body, which means that she shaped it, too, and she taught it to dancers in turn, even after she and Fosse separated. Her inclusion also suggests a narrative informed by the #MeToo movement, a way to reframe the myth of the lone male auteur, of the man who behaves badly, but still, my God, those steps. If “Fosse/Verdon” succeeds, it could inform how we now tell stories about men like Fosse. Assuming we should tell these stories at all. Because if Fosse was a great man, he wasn’t necessarily a good one. He had genius, he had charm, but coercion and scapegoating colored his rehearsals, and he rarely met a chorus girl he didn’t try to bed. (Would he take no for answer? More or less. But his seductions often constituted an ugly abuse of power.) His addictions — pills, sex, all that jazz — were legion. In making “Fosse/Verdon,” the showrunner, Steven Levenson, knew what he didn’t want to create: “Another story about a brilliant man haunted by demons who behaves badly and does terrible things and the question of the series becomes, Well, was it worth it?” “No,” he said recently over breakfast in Brooklyn. “Of course it’s not worth it.” Image Fosse’s moves — the cocked hips, the shoulder jerks, the splayed hands — became instantly recognizable after shows like “Sweet Charity” and “Chicago.”CreditJohn Springer Collection/Corbis, via Getty Images Kail had read Wasson’s book as soon as it was released and had bought a copy for the “Hamilton” choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler as an opening night gift. When Kail learned that “Fosse” had been optioned, he and Lin-Manuel Miranda approached FX and joined the project in the summer of 2016 as executive producers. That fall he met Levenson, who wrote the book for “Dear Evan Hansen,” at a “La La Land” screening. Over sushi a deal was struck. Today’s Broadway royalty would make a show about yesteryear’s. Blankenbuehler joined Susan Misner as a choreographer, while Alex Lacamoire, another “Hamilton” veteran, was brought on as music director. Eight episodes were ordered, with Kail slated to direct five of them. So yes, the lead artists are primarily white and male, but the writers room, which includes Tracey Scott Wilson, Debora Cahn and Ike Holter, is at least a little more diverse. Before preproduction kicked off, Kail and Levenson wanted the blessing of Nicole Fosse, Fosse and Verdon’s daughter. In the spring of 2017 they met her for a breakfast so long it stretched into lunch. A few months later they went up to New Hampshire, near where she lives, and met with her again, spending a weekend looking through her archives. At that point, they still thought they were making “Fosse,” but as they flicked through photos and listened to old recordings, they knew they would have to include Gwen Verdon, too. Image Verdon (right) and Chita Rivera were the original Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in “Chicago.”CreditAssociated Press Like Lola and Joe from “Damn Yankees,” Charity and Oscar from “Sweet Charity,” Roxy and Velma from “Chicago” — all characters from shows they built together — Fosse and Verdon were two lost souls, not one. So why had Fosse’s name endured and Verdon’s hadn’t? They decided that the show would explore, as Levenson put it, “how these complicated partnerships and collaborations become about one person, almost always the man.” “Fosse/Verdon” moves forward and backward in time, but centers, roughly, on the decade between “Cabaret” and “All that Jazz.” “It’s really a story of interdependence and codependence and” — Levenson paused here — “and love.” Still, Levenson wavered. The more he learned about Fosse’s behavior the more he wondered why he wanted to tell this story. “Like, why is this an interesting story? Is this just another awful person who made great art?” he asked himself. Then in the fall of 2017, the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke and Levenson realized, “We have to tell this story because of the way he behaved instead of in spite of the way he behaved.” Williams, speaking by telephone as she rode to the studio, put it a little more dryly: “Thank you to the movement. We’re now going to find out who Gwen Verdon is.” Kail — who had spent years making “Hamilton,” another show about a man of talents and flaws — had always figured they could tell the story with nuance. (When I saw him on set one day he had accessorized with a 30-pound weighted vest. “Otherwise it would be too easy,” he said. This is a man who likes a challenge.) “We need to examine these things, we need to talk about them,” he said later, speaking by telephone. Image “Fosse/Verdon” is informed by the #MeToo movement, a way to reframe the myth of the lone male auteur, of the genius who behaves badly. CreditMichael Parmelee/FX Image “Fosse/Verdon” explores, according to the showrunner Steven Levenson, “how these complicated partnerships and collaborations become about one person, almost always the man.”CreditEric Liebowitz/FX Of course, examining can look a lot like glamorizing, and if you saw the first teaser, which played during the Oscars, you’ll have spotted the legs, the breasts, the zippers plummeting down, down, down. But if the show celebrates Fosse, it’s the kind of party where the cake falls and most of the balloons pop. It would be a mistake to strip Fosse’s world of its appeal, its libidinal oomph. And another mistake to ignore how that appeal could sour. Levenson figured that Fosse’s own work suggested a possible approach. Fosse had magic to do and an almost compulsive need to then show you how the lousy trick was done. He created shows for grown-ups — decadent, mordant, cynical. The first time I came on set, to Grumman Studios on Long Island, cameras were placed to shoot “Big Spender” from “Sweet Charity.” The dancers wriggled in their stilettos and miniskirts, sequins skittering. They looked like unadulterated sex. Until you looked closer. Behind the fake eyelashes, these dance hall girls were dead inside. Fun, laughs, good times? Not exactly. This complicated sexuality had roots in Fosse’s own trauma. Dancing in burlesque houses as a teenager, he experienced transactional sex too early and too often. But his love of sparkle and his need to reveal sparkle as a sucker’s bet also stemmed from professional doubts. He worried that his talent was somehow superficial, all light and no heat. “Razzle Dazzle” from “Chicago” could have been his theme song: “Throw ‘em a fake and a finagle/ They’ll never know you’re just a bagel.” Nicole Fosse, a co-executive producer, said that she feels her father was drawn to projects that allowed him to explore himself. “He was figuring out parts of himself by the work that he chose to do,” she said. Most of his shows have the particular flavor of what Levenson called “his self-hatred mixed with self-aggrandizement.” Image Even after Fosse and Verdon (seen here in 1966) separated, she often taught his choreography to the dancers in his shows.CreditMartha Holmes/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images If the series doesn’t try to overlay 2019 values on a 1970s story, it doesn’t exactly absolve Fosse either. Back then his habits were laughed aside, broadly condoned. In this series, as Rockwell wrote in an email, “nothing is glossed over. You see all of his flaws and self-destructive behavior.” As Rockwell acknowledged, that behavior wasn’t only self-destructive. “He was so destructive,” he wrote. “Destructive to everyone around him. Especially the women in his life.” Was aggression essential to his work? Did predation somehow color “Chicago” or “All That Jazz?” Fosse thought so. Kail not so much. “I refuse to buy into the idea that you need acrimony and tension to create great work,” he said. Williams wondered what kinds of work Fosse would have made if he’d left his demons at home and protected his colleagues. “When I feel safe is when I can be fully expressive and completely free,” she said. “That’s when you’ll get the best out of me. In an environment like what Fosse created, that person wouldn’t be safe.” Genius can take other forms. The episodes that focus on Verdon offer a counternarrative. She started in burlesque clubs, too. Her first marriage was abusive. She had to leave a son with her parents. Her work ethic was equally relentless. But unlike Fosse, “Gwen wanted to stay high and bright and on top of everything,” Williams said. “She just gave joy. When you watch her dance, you feel her love of it.” When I first spoke to Levenson, he mentioned how he’d worshiped Fosse as a teenager. “He was sort of like the cool musical theater person, you know?” he said. A month or so later, as the final episodes were being prepared, I asked him if he could still enjoy Fosse’s work, knowing what he now knows about the man who made it. “That’s a really good question,” he said. He told me that twice, buying time. “The thing that makes this work fascinating is that the pathology and pain is so there on the surface,” he said. “A lot of these artists, once you know the personal stuff, you realize that it was there all along in the work. So I can’t enjoy it in an uncomplicated way. Enjoy is, like, no longer quite the word.” A Showman Whose Dazzle Hid Darkness Nov. 6, 2013 via NYT > Home Page http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 07:27AM DMT.NEWS, @ALEXIS SOLOSKI, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 09:11AM
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Trump’s Takeover of the Republican Party Is Almost Complete On Election Day in 2016, the Republican Party was divided against itself, split over its nominee for president, Donald J. Trump. In Ohio, a crucial battleground, the state G.O.P. chairman had repeatedly chided Mr. Trump in public, amplifying the concerns of Gov. John Kasich, a Republican dissenter. In New Hampshire, the party chairman harbored deep, if largely private, misgivings about her party’s nominee. The Republican Party of Florida was listing, hobbled by local feuds and a rift between donors loyal to Senator Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush and those backing the man who humiliated both in the primaries. Those power struggles have now been resolved in a one-sided fashion. In every state important to the 2020 race, Mr. Trump and his lieutenants are in firm control of the Republican electoral machinery, and they are taking steps to extend and tighten their grip. It is, in every institutional sense, Mr. Trump’s party. As Mr. Trump has prepared to embark on a difficult fight for re-election, a small but ferocious operation within his campaign has helped install loyal allies atop the most significant state parties and urged them to speak up loudly to discourage conservative criticism of Mr. Trump. The campaign has dispatched aides to state party conclaves, Republican executive committee meetings and fund-raising dinners, all with the aim of ensuring the delegates at next year’s convention in Charlotte, N.C., are utterly committed to Mr. Trump. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join the conversation around the 2020 presidential race.] To Joe Gruters, who was co-chairman of Mr. Trump’s campaign in Florida and now leads the state party, the local G.O.P. is effectively a regional arm of the president’s re-election effort. “I’ve had probably 10 conversations with the Trump team about the delegate selection process in Florida,” Mr. Gruters said, adding of a potential Republican primary battle, “The base of the party loves our president, and if anybody runs against him, they are going to get absolutely smashed.” State and local Republican organizations typically operate below the radar of national politics, but they can be vital to the success of a presidential candidate. Party chairmen and their deputies are tasked with everything from raising money to deploying volunteers to knock on doors, and in many states they help choose delegates for the nominating convention. Image Val DiGiorgio is the chairman of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania, one of the most vulnerable states from Mr. Trump’s 2016 coalition.CreditHannah Yoon for The New York Times For Mr. Trump, who prevailed in 2016 as an outsider with little connection to his party’s electoral apparatus, the ability to control the levers of Republican politics at the state level could make the difference in a close election or a contested primary. It also leaves other Republicans with precious little room to oppose Mr. Trump on his policy preferences or administrative whims — on matters from health care to the Mexican border — for fear of retribution from within the party. Mr. Trump’s aides have focused most intently on heading off any dissent at the Charlotte convention: To that end, two of Mr. Trump’s top campaign aides, Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, have worked quietly but methodically in a series of states where control of the local party was up for grabs. They have boosted Mr. Trump’s allies even in deep-blue states like Massachusetts, and worked to make peace between competing pro-Trump factions in more competitive states such as Colorado. The devotion to Mr. Trump was on clear display Saturday outside Denver, where the state party gathered to elect a new chairman. Though Mr. Trump’s unpopularity helped drive Colorado Republicans to deep losses last fall, there was no sign of unrest: Mr. Trump’s name was emblazoned on lapel pins and a flag toted by one candidate for the chairmanship, and his slogan — “Make America Great Again” — was printed on the red hat from which the candidates drew lots to determine their speaking order. Mr. Trump himself stayed out of the race, and campaign aides sent the White House a short memo last month urging the president not to pick sides between allies after Representative Ken Buck, a deeply conservative candidate, lobbied administration officials for support. But when Mr. Buck claimed victory in the race for chairman, he described his mission in terms of unflinching loyalty to the president. “The key is that we make sure that the voters of Colorado understand the great job the president has done,” Mr. Buck said. “That is what my job is.” Mr. Trump faces at least a quixotic challenge in the Republican primaries from William F. Weld, a moderate former governor of Massachusetts, and other Republicans have toyed with entering the race. But advisers to Mr. Trump view it as an urgent priority to maintain Republican support: With low approval ratings among voters at large, including educated whites who once leaned Republican, Mr. Trump can ill afford additional fractures on the right. Image Devotion to President Trump was on display Saturday outside Denver, where the Colorado Republican Party met to select a new chairman for the coming presidential campaign.CreditRachel Woolf for The New York Times So far, loyalty has prevailed. “There is no challenge to the president,” declared John Watson, a former supporter of Mr. Kasich who now leads the Georgia Republican Party. “The party is in near-unanimous lock step in support of him, certainly at the activist and delegate level.” In some respects, the shift toward Mr. Trump in Republican state organizations has been organic, driven by the president’s immense popularity with the party’s most committed voters. In Arizona, an emerging presidential swing state, conservative activists in January ejected a chairman aligned with the G.O.P. establishment in favor of Kelli Ward, a former Senate candidate with fringe views who tied herself closely to Mr. Trump. But Mr. Trump and his aides have also taken a more active hand in shaping the party leadership around the country, mostly to their own great advantage, according to half a dozen Republicans briefed on the Trump campaign’s loyalty operation. A division of the Trump campaign known as the Delegates and Party Organization unit has closely tracked state party leadership elections and occasionally weighed in to help a preferred contender. In Michigan, for instance, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, recently endorsed a former state legislator, Laura Cox, to take over Michigan’s discombobulated state party. The Trump campaign has also taken steps to blunt the influence of a few Republican governors who are hostile to the president. In Massachusetts, Trump aides worked in January to help a hard-line candidate, Jim Lyons, win the chairmanship against a candidate linked closely to the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Baker, who is a critic of Mr. Trump. (As a candidate, Mr. Lyons vowed to “make the Massachusetts Republican Party great again.”) In Maryland, where Gov. Larry Hogan has mused about challenging Mr. Trump, presidential loyalists in the party apparatus are prepared to flout Mr. Hogan’s wishes in selecting delegates. In Maryland and some other states, convention delegates are selected by a combination of primary voters and members of the state party committee — constituencies overwhelmingly supportive of Mr. Trump. “No other candidate, no matter if it’s Gov. Hogan, Bill Weld or anybody else, will get one single delegate out of Maryland,” said David Bossie, the state’s R.N.C. committeeman and an adviser to Mr. Trump. Image “The key is that we make sure that the voters of Colorado understand the great job the president has done,” said Representative Ken Buck, the Colorado G.O.P. chairman. “That is what my job is.” CreditRachel Woolf for The New York Times Some states are so fully in the grips of Trump enthusiasts that the campaign has sought to keep Mr. Trump neutral in local races, out of concern that he could alienate one supportive faction or another. In Rhode Island last weekend, the campaign dispatched an aide to answer questions from party activists about Mr. Trump’s view of the race for state chairman, after Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, reportedly made calls on behalf of a candidate who was ultimately defeated. The Trump campaign made clear that Mr. Spicer had been acting on his own, a person familiar with the conversations said. Last month, several top Trump strategists, including Mr. Stepien and Mr. Clark, informed the president directly on the efforts to lock down party organizations for his re-election, people briefed on the meeting said. In a statement, Mr. Clark described the operation as part of a long run-up to the 2020 convention. “Like any good campaign operation, we are working to ensure that state party chairs and delegates reflect the will of Republican voters, who support President Trump in record numbers,” Mr. Clark said. “Our goal is to pave the way for a convention in Charlotte that gives the president a multiday platform to share his achievements with 300 million Americans.” Though the Republican National Committee has stopped short of formally endorsing Mr. Trump, state chairmen elected with the help of Mr. Trump’s campaign have defended him fiercely, even from Mr. Weld’s long-shot effort. When the former Massachusetts governor rolled out his campaign, Mr. Lyons blasted him harshly, as did Stephen Stepanek, a former co-chairman for the Trump campaign in New Hampshire who now leads that state’s Republican Party. That hard-edge approach has stirred some discomfort in New Hampshire, where some traditional Republicans prize the state’s reputation for political independence and have resisted efforts to quash an open primary. Steve Duprey, a member of the Republican National Committee from the state, hosted Mr. Weld there in late March and argued that New Hampshire’s “special role” as an early-voting state required it to be open to candidates besides Mr. Trump. He said in an interview he believed primary competition was healthy, as a general matter. “Our job is to be neutral and treat them all equally, period,” argued Mr. Duprey, who was a close adviser to John McCain. There are still elements of the G.O.P. that have yet to fall fully in line behind the president, Republicans acknowledge. The party suffered serious defections in 2018 among moderate white voters who have historically tended to support Republicans, and some of the party’s traditional financial backers have not yet committed to supporting him in 2020. Advisers to Mr. Trump acknowledge that mobilizing the party’s major-donor base remains one of the most important challenges for his campaign. But there is no comparable reticence among the Republican Party’s field captains in the states. At the meeting in Colorado over the weekend, Vera Ortegon, the state’s R.N.C. committeewoman, alluded to the president’s nagging Republican critics in the form of a stern warning. “If you know any Never Trumpers,” Ms. Ortegon said, “send them to me.” via NYT > Home Page http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 06:57AM DMT.NEWS, @ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 09:11AM
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Meek Mill Deserves His Own Statue In Philly According To Democratic Politician The reformation of the criminal justice system in America is a focal point for Meek Mill, and the rapper continues to change lives with his activism. We recently reported on Meek and Van Jones introducing House Bill 1925, a bill that will hopefully enact changes in the parole and probation system. Meek, along with his REFORM Alliance co-chairs, would like to see a reduction in probationary periods, rewards for good behavior, and an implementation of programs that would keep recidivism at an all-time low. “This proposed bill is the first step in changing the criminal justice system and it’s only right that we start in my home state,” Meek said. "I’ve lost too much time away from my son, my family, my friends and fans in Philly because of outdated probation laws, so I want to make sure people don’t have to go through what I did.” Democratic politician Dwight Evans is a member of the House of Representatives, and when TMZ caught up with him on Capitol Hill, they asked Rep. Evans what his thoughts were on Meek leading the charge in criminal justice reformation. “I’m happy that’s occurring,” he said. “You know, we need all of the activity, the consciousness raising. I’m happy that Meek Mill along with Van Jones are raising the consciousness, just to get the message to people [that] we’ve got to do something about this criminal justice system.” There’s also no doubt in Rep. Evans’ mind that more rappers should be vocal about this issue. “I think there’s no question about it. Think about it…he’s from the congressional district that I represent, in terms of southwest Philly. I know him. I’ve seen him in action. I know what he means and the affect that he has. He has that affect upon people, on someone who has just given up on this political system. He gives them a sense of hope that he’s willing to take each challenge on. They’re not easy, but he’s willing to confront them.” With all the good Meek is doing for his city and beyond, is it time for him to get his own statue in Philly like Rocky Balboa? “Why not?" Rep. Evans said with a smile. "He deserves a statue like Rocky.” via HotNewHipHop.com http://bit.ly/2WrfIpH April 3, 2019 at 04:36AM DMT.NEWS, @Erika Marie, @dmtbarbershop April 3, 2019 at 06:41AM
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