American Couple Living in Uganda Accused of Torturing 10-Year-Old Foster Child

Nicholas and Mackenzie Spencer.Photo: LinkedIn; GoFundMe A South Carolina couple currently living in Uganda stand accused of “constantly torturing” their 10-year-old foster son from 2020 to 2022,multiple outlets report. They allegedly failed to provide him with a mattress to sleep on, making him sleep on a wood platform, and purportedly forced him to squat in an awkward position. The couple has been charged with aggravated torture, per multiple outlets. A caretaker for the little boy, whose name is being withheld because of his age, toldThe Monitorthat the couple prevented him from access to education and kept him locked in a small, cold tiled room at all times.

American Fiction: The Biggest Changes Between the BookErasureand New Movie Starring Jeffrey Wright

Photo:Claire Folger Claire Folger Director Cord Jefferson’s feature film directorial debut,American Fiction, is a movie not to miss.The film follows Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), a Black writer who is frustrated his books don’t sell while books filled with racial stereotypes do. He decides to write a novel under the pen name Stagg R. Leigh calledMy Pafology, its title later changed, that parodies the books he sees garnering attention. When the novel becomes a huge success, Monk finds himself caught up in a web of lies that may have dire consequences.

American FictionPEOPLE Review: Jeffrey Wright Is Brilliant in Hot-Button Comedy About a Black Novelist

Wright with costar Erika Alexander.Photo:Claire Folger Claire Folger At the very least, he’s a master of the slow burn. In short, Monk needs to be more like Sintara Golden (the radiantIssa Rae), who’s written a runaway bestseller calledWe’s Lives in Da Ghetto. Ellison, enraged, dashes off a parody,My Pafology,full of urban crime, poverty and profanity, and gets it published under the name Stagg R. Leigh (an allusion to the old Black folk ballad“Stagger Lee,”about a Black pimp and gambler who shoots and kills a man in a barroom).

American FictionStar Erika Alexander Tears Up Thanking Mom at Oscars 2024: 'I Walk in This Space Because of You'

Erika Alexander of ‘American Fiction’ attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards.Photo:Mike Coppola/Getty Mike Coppola/Getty Erika Alexander is using Oscar night to pay tribute to her mom. At the 2024 Oscars on Sunday, March 10, theAmerican Fictionstar took a moment to thank the person who made her career possible: her mom, Sammie Alexander. Speaking toVarietyon the Oscars red carpet, Alexander, 54, looked into the camera to address her mom directly. “Hi Mom, it’s Erika.

American FictionWriter Cord Jefferson Implores Hollywood to Take More Risks as He Wins Oscar

Kevin Winter/Getty Images Cord Jeffersonmade a plea to Hollywood after winning the Best Adapted Screenplay forAmerican Fictionat the 2024Academy Awards. The other nominees in the category wereGreta GerwigandNoah BaumbachforBarbie,Christopher NolanforOppenheimer, Tony McNamara forPoor Thingsand Jonathan Glazer forThe Zone of Interest. He began, “This means the world to me. Thank you so much to the Academy, thank you so much to everybody who worked on the film.” “I’ve been talking a lot about how many people passed on this movie and discussing it and I worry that sometimes [it] sounds vindictive, and I don’t want to be vindictive, I’m not a vindictive person anymore,” Jefferson continued.