NEW YORK (AP) — Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars' second straight year of all-white acting nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday that they will not attend this year's ceremony.
In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he "cannot support" the "lily white" Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee — who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards — said he was fed up: "Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all," he wrote. "We can't act?!"
BOSTON – Spiraling health care costs pose a grave fiscal threat to families, threatening to eat up as much as 45 percent of household incomes and crowd out other basic needs within two decades, according to a recent study.
"You're looking at an unprecedented fiscal crisis for American families," said Matt Blackbourn, the author of the study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston.
