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Liberals tried to cancel American Eagle over ‘fascist’ Sydney Sweeney ad — here’s who came out the clear winner
The American consumer did not fall for accusations of “fascism” and “racism” against a controversial jeans ad featuring Sydney Sweeney, according to the company’s profit margins.
The American Eagle company raised its annual sales forecast after seeing higher holiday sales, and that resulted in its stock price surging by nearly 15% in early trading Thursday.
American Eagle said it expected holiday sales to increase between 8% and 9%.
That adds up to over a 139% increase in the stock price of the retailer since July when the jeans ad dropped.
Leftist commentators on TikTok and other platforms lambasted the video ad for including provocative scenes with the blonde, blue-eyed actress while she praised the quality of her jeans.
“Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it’s still really shocking. Like, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. Like, that is Nazi propaganda!” one user said.
“If you haven’t fully comprehended how bad it is, I need you to open your f**king eyeballs and listen. This is Nazi s**t, pure Nazi s**t! Saying that a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl has good genes is Nazi s**t! Saying anybody has good genes is eugenics. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed? Nazi s**t!” another user said.
Many on the right mocked and ridiculed the overreaction, and it appears that the consumer was not repelled by the controversy.
American Eagle said it expected holiday sales to increase between 8% and 9%.
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Even President Donald Trump jumped into the debate and praised the ad after being told that she’s a registered Republican.
“She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right?” the president said to reporters at the White House in August.
“You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans,” Trump added. “That’s one I wouldn’t have known, but I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
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Exclusive: ICE arrests criminal illegal alien who allegedly operated shady unlicensed dental clinic
Immigration and Customs Enforcement highlighted the Wednesday arrests of several “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, including a man who had been accused of operating an unlicensed dental practice, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.
‘ALL of them WILL be deported, never to return and harm another American AGAIN.’
On Wednesday, federal immigration officials nabbed Jose Alfredo Uzeta, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was previously convicted of dentistry act violation and indecent assault in Harris County, Texas.
A 2023 report by KTRK-TV accused Uzeta of operating an unlicensed practice for two decades. Uzeta previously told a judge that he was seeing approximately eight patients a day. During an appointment for her braces, one patient claimed that Uzeta unhooked her bra, massaged her, and attempted to kiss her. Police uncovered the illegal practice when the patient reported Uzeta’s inappropriate conduct.
“For 20 years, Uzeta preyed on vulnerable Americans, charging for dental procedures he had absolutely no business of performing. Worse, he sexually violated one of his patients who trusted him,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.
“In addition to this monster, ICE also arrested child predators, murderers, and violent assailants — ALL of them WILL be deported, never to return and harm another American AGAIN,” McLaughlin added.
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Jose Alfredo Uzeta. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE also arrested Mahmoud Telfah, a criminal illegal alien from Jordan. Earlier this year, Telfah was convicted of two counts, including child solicitation by electronic communication device and meets with a child, as well as attempted sexual exploitation of children by prostitution, according to the New Mexico Department of Justice.
A criminal complaint revealed that Telfah attempted to solicit sexual acts from an undercover Albuquerque Police Department detective whom he believed to be a 15-year-old female.
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Mahmoud Telfah. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
The DHS press release highlighted ICE’s recent arrest of Hamidou Diallo, an illegal alien from Mali, who was convicted of murder in New York.
Hamidou Diallo. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Agents also captured Santos Guevara-Carrero, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, convicted of manslaughter in New York.
Santos Guevara-Carrero. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Marcos Leon-Sorto, a criminal illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested by federal agents. Leon-Sorto was convicted of aggravated assault causing significant bodily injury and assault on a peace officer or judge in Texas.
Marcos Leon-Sorto. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
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Conservative influencers promote Qatar as a desert paradise — but are they lying?
One of the main reasons Americans flock to shows like “The Liz Wheeler Show” is because Wheeler is someone the average citizen can trust to tell the truth — and it’s something that she’s very proud of. Which is why when other members of the new media on the right appear to betray the trust of the American people, she feels the need to call it out.
“These people, who are ostensibly conservatives, began to post on X very long, flowery defenses of Qatar and the Qatari government that didn’t seem to be quite authentic. It didn’t seem to be quite organic,” Wheeler explains, pointing to Rob Smith as one of those influencers.
“My first trip to Qatar has been eye-opening. This is a very different Middle East than I experienced as a U.S. Army soldier deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom,” Smith began in his post on X.
“I wasn’t aware of a great deal of things about Qatar, only misperceptions and half-truths I’d read about online. When the opportunity was presented to me, with full authority and autonomy to ask the tough questions of the officials I’d be meeting with (and I did), I decided to risk any potential criticism and to travel and experience it for myself,” he continued.
The post went on to praise the Qatari government further, finishing with a posed photo of Smith on a balcony.
“If your reaction after hearing that post or reading that post was anything like mine was, maybe you scratched your head after you read that, because it reads a little bit like a scam email,” Wheeler says.
“I mean, to be perfectly frank, my gut reaction when I read that was, ‘Shouldn’t you register as a foreign lobbyist after writing this post, Rob?’” she adds.
In another post from influencer Emily Wilson, she is posed in a photo on a very similar looking balcony, writing only, “So beautiful can’t wait to come back,” followed by the flag of Qatar.
When Wilson’s post went viral, she responded, “I genuinely can’t believe how clueless some people are. Qatar hosts Formula 1 and people from all over the world fly in for it. Tourists, models, celebrities, fans. It is a massive international destination.”
“And honestly it was amazing to finally feel safe and not be surrounded by homeless crackheads and criminals for once. I could actually relax and enjoy myself. Maybe if you salty losers left your bedrooms and visited a place before obsessively talking about it, you wouldn’t sound so chronically online and jealous,” she added.
“Again it just doesn’t ring quite true. Why all of a sudden are these influencers coming to the defense of Qatar?” Wheeler asks, pointing out that Smith happens to be gay, which is considered a crime in Qatar.
“They write these glowing recommendations of Qatar and yet their own behavior is actually illegal in Qatar. If you look at Qatari law, it’s illegal to evangelize for any other religion besides Islam. You can be put in prison or worse from that. You are not allowed to preach publicly about Christianity or distribute any kind of religious materials,” Wheeler explains.
“You can’t even question the tenants, the teachings of the Islamic religion. That is a criminal offense in Qatar. … Same-sex sexual relations in Qatar are illegal and punishable by imprisonment. If you engage in any kind of gay sex, then you are considered a criminal under the Islamic law in Qatar,” she continues.
“They have a two-tier justice system, a justice system that oppresses regular people and lets off the elites, holds them to an easier standard, which is pretty evident,” she says, adding, “That’s exactly what’s happening here to Rob Smith and to Emily Saves America.”
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Unruly anti-ICE protesters shut down NOLA city council meeting — police carry out activist
New Orleans City Council’s Thursday meeting was brought to a standstill by spitting-mad activists protesting the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown in the city.
‘We’ll be back.’
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed this week the launch of Operation Catahoula Crunch in the Louisiana city, targeting criminal illegal aliens. The immigration enforcement efforts sparked backlash from some in the local community.
During a Thursday New Orleans City Council meeting, residents lined up to demand that council members designate all city-owned properties as “ICE-free zones” and pass an ordinance that prevents cooperation with immigration officials.
Several demonstrators held signs that read, “No collaboration with ICE/DHS.”
The council repeatedly muted the microphone after informing the protesters that their remarks were “not germane” to the agenda items.
Despite this, the activists continued to approach the microphone during public comments to repeat their demands. A couple of protesters refused to sit down and continued to shout and disrupt the meeting.
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Council members responded by suspending public comment on the agenda item and calling a recess.
The crowd of protesters then erupted, shouting and screaming at both the council members and the police officers present in the chamber.
Videos captured by FreedomNews.tv showed police officers slowly escorting the protesting crowd out of the building, with many individuals refusing to leave. Several officers were forced to carry out one unruly activist.
After several minutes of scuffling, shouting, cursing, and some protesters defiantly raising middle fingers at officers, the crowd was finally locked out of the premises.
“We’ll be back,” they shouted at the police from the other side of the fence.
RELATED: Man flings Molotov cocktails at federal building while yelling ‘anti-ICE’ comments, feds say
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According to NOLA.com, 30 protesters were ejected from the council’s chambers.
Toni Jones, an organizer for the event and a member of the New Orleans Alliance against Racial and Political Repression, told Verite News, “We haven’t seen City Council take a stand, and we demand that they declare they will not cooperate with [ICE] in any way.”
On Thursday, DHS highlighted the arrest of a kidnapper and sex offender as a result of Operation Catahoula Crunch. According to the department, he was previously sentenced to 40 years in prison and later released on parole.
“These are SICK people who have lived among us for far too long. THEY WILL GO BACK,” DHS stated.
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Climate hucksters wrong again: Study claiming climate change would make you poorer retracted over major flaws
German climate alarmists claimed in a study published last year in the journal Nature that even if carbon dioxide emissions were radically cut down, so-called climate change would still drive the world economy toward a global GDP reduction of 19%.
The alarmists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggested further that not only would global annual climate-change damages hit $38 trillion by 2049, but that under a high-emissions scenario, global GDP would be lowered around 60% relative to the baseline in 75 years — an impact reportedly three times larger than previous estimates.
‘Most people for the last decade have thought that a 20% reduction in 2100 was an insanely large number. So the fact that this paper is coming out saying 60% is off the chart.’
According to the U.K.-based Carbon Brief, this was one of the most-cited climate papers by the media, including the Associated Press, CNN, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters.
Just the News highlighted that numerous activists and institutions also cited it, including Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) and the World Bank.
The problem for the climate alarmists and those who believed them was that the study’s conclusions were bogus.
A team of American economists pointed out in a commentary published by Nature in August that “data anomalies arising from one country in [the German researchers’] underlying GDP dataset, Uzbekistan, substantially bias their predicted impacts of climate change.”
The economists revealed that if the questionable data pertaining to Uzbekistan were excluded, projected global losses in 2100 would be 23% as opposed to 60%, which is more in line with previous estimates.
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The economists noted further that the Germans underestimated “statistical uncertainty in their future projections of climate impacts.”
“Most people for the last decade have thought that a 20% reduction in 2100 was an insanely large number,” Solomon Hsiang, a Stanford University professor who co-authored the August commentary, told the New York Times. “So the fact that this paper is coming out saying 60% is off the chart.”
‘We have to cut down our emissions drastically and immediately — if not, economic losses will become even bigger.’
The paper, which was originally published on April 17, 2024, was retracted on Wednesday.
The retraction notice indicates that “the results were found to be sensitive to the removal of one country, Uzbekistan, where inaccuracies were noted in the underlying economic data for the period 1995-1999.”
While the German alarmists attempted to correct the data for Uzbekistan and make other adjustments, they found that “these changes led to discrepancies in the estimates for climate damages by mid-century, with an increased uncertainty range (from 11-29% to 6-31%) and a lower probability of damages diverging across emission scenarios by 2050 (from 99% to 90%).”
In other words, the original conclusions hyped by the liberal media were worthless.
When the now-retracted paper was first published in April 2024, the German researchers made no secret of the point of the exercise: justifying societal and industrial upheaval coded as “adaptation.”
“Our analysis shows that climate change will cause massive economic damages within the next 25 years in almost all countries around the world, also in highly developed ones such as Germany, France, and the United States,” Leonie Wenz, lead scientist on the study, said in a release.
“These near-term damages are a result of our past emissions. We will need more adaptation efforts if we want to avoid at least some of them,” Wenz continued. “And we have to cut down our emissions drastically and immediately — if not, economic losses will become even bigger in the second half of the century, amounting to up to 60% on global average by 2100.”
Wenz and her team are hardly the first climate alarmists to have their conclusions proven to be as incorrect as they are outlandish.
Failed presidential candidate Al Gore, for instance, concern-mongered in 2009 that in addition to the significant rise in the global sea level that was supposed to happen “in the near future” but never did, the entire polar ice cap was likely going to be seasonally ice-free, perhaps by as early as 2014.
Gore told the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference that then-new research indicated there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”
In September, a paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters revealed that Gore was dead wrong — that over the past 20 years, “Arctic sea ice loss has slowed considerably, with no statistically significant decline in September sea ice area since 2005.”
Rather than wait to be proven horribly wrong, Bill Gates — who has spent years fear-mongering about the calamities that would supposedly visit humanity unless governments neutralized certain industries and regulated into extinction certain behaviors — admitted in October that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.”
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‘Lawful and needful’: Navy admiral dispels Hegseth’s alleged ‘kill them all’ order during drug-boat strike
Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth remains on offense, as another military official stands up in defense of the infamous boat strike against alleged drug traffickers.
The Washington Post published a story claiming that Hegseth ordered Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley to “kill them all” during a September 2 strike on alleged drug boats, insinuating that the alleged order amounted to a war crime.
‘I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat, load it with drugs.’
Bradley echoed remarks made by Hegseth and members of the administration defending the strike and calling the Post’s reporting into question.
Lawmakers exiting the Thursday-morning meeting with Bradley reaffirmed that the accusations levied against Hegseth and his Pentagon were unfounded, claiming there was “no such order.”
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“The first strike, the second strike, and the third and the fourth strike on September 2 were entirely lawful and needful, and they were exactly what we would expect our military commanders to do,” Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said as he was exiting the classified briefing.
“Admiral Bradley was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all,” Cotton added.
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Cotton went on to describe the footage of the strike that was shown to the lawmakers.
“I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat — loaded with drugs, bound for the United States — back over so they could stay in the fight,” Cotton said. “And potentially, given all the context we heard, of other narco-terrorist boats in the area coming to their aid.”
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Church displays political Nativity scene with Jesus in zip ties and centurions as ICE agents
An Illinois church is facing scrutiny for politicizing its Christmas Nativity scene to criticize immigration enforcement efforts.
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church of Evanston compared the plight of illegal aliens to the Roman Empire trying to kill Jesus Christ in the biblical account of his birth.
‘If you read the Gospels, how we treat our neighbors is how we are treating Jesus.’
“Jesus was born into a context … the Roman Empire, right?” said Woolf to WMAQ-TV. “He immediately has to flee and go into exile and become a refugee.”
The Roman centurions are depicted as ICE agents, and Joseph is lying on the ground as if thrown down.
“Our baby Jesus has zip ties on his hands because that’s an actual incident that happened in our city,” Woolf added. “These are real-world things that are happening, and we’re trying to depict them and bring the sacred into it to tell a story.”
WMAQ published video of the display and an interview with Woolf, who stood near the sign of the church that included an LGBTQ flag.
Woolf was among the protesters who was arrested for rioting at a protest at an ICE facility in Broadview in November. WMAQ’s report neglects to mention that several law enforcement officers were injured in the incident.
“It’s really important how we treat our neighbors because we find out if you read the Gospels, how we treat our neighbors is how we are treating Jesus,” Woolf added.
WMAQ said that the Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for a comment on the protest.
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The website for Lake Street Church has a web page dedicated to the cause of social justice that advocates for “dismantling racism” by trying to pass a reparations bill.
The web page says the church offers sanctuary for those targeted by “inhumane immigration policies” and claims that the church is currently housing an immigrant family in the process of applying for asylum.
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NYT diagnoses Trump with ‘fatigue’ and history of racism while ignoring Biden’s 4-year nap and history of racism
The New York Times has hit a new low and abandoned any semblance of journalism to focus on President Trump’s so-called fatigue — as well as his undocumented history of “insulting black people.”
“President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, calling them ‘garbage’ he does not want in the United States in an outburst that captured the raw nativism that has animated his approach to immigration,” one article reads.
“Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry,” it continues.
“Now, you might be wondering at this point, did they give the same energy with Joe Biden, who actually does have a long history of insulting black people?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales asks, though she knows the answer.
“Of course they didn’t say anything about Joe Biden and his long history of insulting black people,” she says, pointing out that this isn’t the only hit piece on Trump making waves from the New York Times.
Another recent article was titled, “Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting.”
“‘Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office,’” Gonzales mocks. “Like, Joe Biden was dead for four years. Like, where were the articles? All of a sudden they care about all of these things.”
But that’s not all. The New York Times also published an article titled, “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office.”
“Still, nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule. Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips,” the article reads.
“The heavy lifting, the mental gymnastics … that are required to write this type of article are truly incredible. The man is getting twice as much done in a shorter amount of time. Like, he’s actually just being more efficient. And the New York Times is like, ‘But he’s traveling less. He must be aging,’” Gonzales says.
“Guys, Joe Biden was 200 years old. You couldn’t even find a pulse on the guy the whole time he was in office,” she continues. “I’m not going to listen to this from you.”
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‘Matrix’ co-creator: ‘Trans rage’ drives my work
At 57 years old, writer Lilly Wachowski is still doing a lot of soul-searching.
Born Andrew, and one-half of the famous Wachowski Brothers, Wachowski and his older brother, Lana (60), born Laurence, are known for their iconic movie series “The Matrix.”
Both claim to be transgender.
‘As a trans person, the dark question that I had as a trans person was, “Who will ever love this?”‘
Andy became Lilly in 2016, while Larry was four years ahead, becoming Lana in 2012. Since then, the duo have leaned into their new identities, going so far as to retroactively characterize “The Matrix” trilogy as a “trans metaphor” in 2020.
Freedom fried
During a recent interview on “So True with Caleb Hearon,” Lilly Wachowski took another look back at his previous work and explained that he has a new perspective that helps him see how his work got him to where he is now, in relation to his gender status.
I look back on all of my previous work, and I see it because I’m looking at it from this higher place. It just creates this different perspective from this point of view up here, and I can see “Bound” — the first shot of the movie is a closet. And it’s like, “Okay, it looks like we’re going to be working on some stuff.”
Noting that “The Matrix” was about “liberation and identity and, like, freedom,” Wachowski then repeated a liberal trope about making art that can “will things into being that you need to see in the world,” before further saying that his movies have also been about finding love, while also being subliminal instruments for transgender storytelling.
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“A lot of the things that me and Lana were also writing about was love — that we needed to create stories that gave us a grounding to see that love was possible,” Wachowski tried to explain. “As a trans person … the dark question that I had as a trans person was, ‘Who will ever love this?’ … And it gave us this reminder that there was a future for us.”
Mad for it
Wachowski also noted another powerful source of creativity his new identity has given him: “trans rage.”
In 2017, he and a partner began working on a trans-themed screenplay — a process he described as “purging all this rage and horror out of the world and onto this page.”
After a few years executive producing the Showtime series “Work in Progress” — a vehicle for comedian and self-described “masculine queer dyke” Abby McEnany — Wachowski returned to the script in 2021, finding “catharsis” in responding to a world he found had become “way s**ttier for trans people.”
Wachowski channeled some of his rage into “creating caricature[d] buffoons of the right wing.” He also used it to inspire a vision of “an idealized family, a network, a Weather Underground of trans people coming together and supporting each other and holding each other up, trying to create a story that is the best of us.”
Larry Wachowski, now Lana (L), and Andy Wachowski, now Lilly (R). Photo by Bob Riha Jr/WireImage
Flip-flop
Wachowski’s new creative direction hasn’t been great for the bottom line.
A fourth installment of the beloved Keanu Reeves saga, “The Matrix Resurrections,” flopped when released in December 2021, making only about $38 million on a $190 million budget.
That’s less than a third of the $139 million its predecessor, “The Matrix Revolutions,” pulled in 2004 — and a far cry from 2003’s “The Matrix Reloaded,” which took in over $280 million.
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Halle Berry torches Gavin Newsom’s presidential hopes — for devaluing half of the population
Hollywood actress Halle Berry said she vehemently opposes the reported presidential aspirations of California Gov. Gavin Newsom over menopause health care.
The Academy Award-winning actress berated Newsom while speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit.
The 59-year-old has become an advocate for expanding health care options for women going through menopause.
She said that the governor’s veto against the Menopause Care Equity Act (AB 432) led to her rejection of any presidential hopes he might have. The 59-year-old has become an advocate for expanding health care options for women going through menopause.
“Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row,” she said.
“But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever,” she added. “And with the way he’s overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either. Just saying.”
Berry endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
Newsom argued that the bill was too far-reaching when he vetoed it the last time.
“Last year, I vetoed a substantially similar bill, stating that it would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs,” the governor said. “That is still the case with this bill — despite my call for a more tailored solution. This bill’s expansive coverage mandate, in conjunction with a prohibition on [utilization management], is too far-reaching.”
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Video of Berry’s comments were widely circulated on social media.
Berry won the Oscar for best actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball.” She was the first black woman to win the award in that category and, to date, the only one to do so.
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