Today Show Cut Off Janelle Monae While She Was Speaking About Police Brutality 

During a Friday performance on the Today show, Janelle Monae was cut off as she was speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement. At the end of her performance of “Hell You Talmbou” — a protest song dedicated to the movement — Monae began to speak about police brutality: “God bless all the lives lost to police brutality. We want white America to know that we stand tall today. We want black America to know we stand tall today. We will not be silenced...” The camera panned away and an anchor spoke over Monae as she continued. The show cut to commercial moments after Monae said “silenced.” The awkwardness of the break and its timing has many wondering if Today purposefully cut off Monae. [Huffington Post/VH1]

Fifth Harmony was the latest guest at a Taylor Swift concert. As always, Swift released many perfectly composed photos on her Instagram, but this video is the best media from the concert. Bless you, Swift. [E!; Vine]

Apparently the Hunger Games’ original press photo included the word “cunt”. The studio quickly deleted the photo. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took the kids to check out Harry Potter at Universal Studios. [People]
  
• Pamela Anderson thinks the Baywatch reboot is going to be terrible. [TMZ]
  
• Here are the first cast photos of Star Wars: Rogue One. Cast members include Felicity Jones and Mads Mikkelsen. [The Hollywood Reporter]
  

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