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The Hot Line: Spike Lee boycotts the Oscars over lack of diversity

January 23, 2016 at 8:00PM
Director Spike Lee attends the premiere of HBO's new drama series "Vinyl", at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Director Spike Lee attended the premiere of HBO’s new drama series “Vinyl”, at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in New York. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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"Chi-Raq" director/producer Spike Lee on Instagram on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, expressing his dismay with the 2015 and 2016 Oscar nominations with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

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Eviction filings up in Minnesota amid ICE surge

FILE -- A rent deposit slot at an apartment complex in Tucker, Ga., on July 21, 2020. As an eviction crisis has seemed increasingly likely this summer, everyone in the housing market has made the same plea to Washington: Send money — lots of it — that would keep renters in their homes and landlords afloat. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times) ORG XMIT: XNYT58
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