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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
StarToons International, LLC. was an animation studio located in the Chicago, Illinois area. It was founded by Jon McClenahan, an animator who had previously worked for other studios like Hanna-Barbera. The initial founding of StarToons was in October 1988 and for the most part it provided animation exclusively for Warner Bros. shows, but it also created the character Dudley the Dinosaur for the American Dental Association. Its animators also worked on the 2000 Looney Tunes short Little Go Beep featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. StarToons shut down in 2001. The studio provided animation for the following cartoons: Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1992) - 3 half-hour episodes: Henry Youngman Day, Thirteensomething and It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special. Taz-Mania (1991–1992) - The opening and 2 half-hour episodes: Instant Replay/Taz and the Pterodactyl and Hypnotazed/Mum's n' Taz's. McGee and Me (1992) - The animated sequences. Animaniacs (1993–1998) - 28 segments: Wakko's America, What Are We?, Be Careful What You Eat, Slappy Goes Walnuts, The Big Candy Store, Plane Pals, Meatballs or Consequences, Broadcast Nuisance, Guardin' the Garden, Bumbie's Mom, Wally Llama, Chairman of the Bored, Meet Minerva, And Justice for Slappy, Meet John Brain, Critical Condition, Frontier Slappy, MacBeth, Windsor Hassle, Scare-Happy Slappy, Ragamuffins, Karaoke-Dokie, Testimonials, Dot The Macadamia Nut, Bully for Skippy, Magic Time, The Brain's Apprentice and There's Only One of You. Also, numerous bumpers. Secret Adventures (1994) - The animated sequences. What a Cartoon! (1995) - 1 short: Drip Dry Drips. Histeria! (1998–2000) - 4 half-hour episodes: The Wild West, Around the World In a Daze, Writers of the Purple Prose and Dawn of Time.
The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids' Choice, is an American annual awards ceremony show produced by Nickelodeon. Usually held on a Saturday night in March or early April, the show honors the year's biggest in television, film, music, and sports as voted by viewers worldwide of Nickelodeon networks. Winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the network's 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features numerous celebrity guests and musical acts, including live acts. It has also been known to cover people with the network's trademark green slime: since 2002, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show. The animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has won the most KCA awards, with twenty-two overall through the series' run. Individually, Selena Gomez won the most trophies (with 13), followed by Adam Sandler (with 12), Will Smith, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande (each with 11), and Justin Bieber (with 9). Whoopi Goldberg and Steven Spielberg are the only people to have won a Kids' Choice Award alongside the prevailing "EGOT" combination of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Rosie O'Donnell has hosted the show eight times, followed by Jack Black (three times), as well as Candace Cameron, Whitney Houston, and John Cena (twice each).
DNEG (formerly known as Double Negative and pronounced D-NEG) is a British visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio that was founded in 1998 in London, and rebranded as DNEG in 2014 after a merger with Indian visual effects company Prime Focus. DNEG has won eight Academy Awards for its work on the films Inception, Interstellar, Ex Machina, Blade Runner 2049, First Man, Tenet, Dune and Dune: Part Two. The company has also won eight BAFTA awards for Inception, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Interstellar, Blade Runner 2049, Tenet, Dune, Dune: Part Two and the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead". DNEG has received widespread acclaim, winning multiple Visual Effects Society (VES) awards for films including The Dark Knight Rises, Sherlock Holmes, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, First Man, Last Night In Soho, Nyad, Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, and television shows such as Chernobyl, Foundation, The Last of Us and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. DNEG has also garnered Primetime Emmy Awards for its work on Dreamkeeper, Chernobyl, Star Trek: Discovery (Season 3) and The Last of Us. DNEG is headquartered in Fitzrovia, London with additional locations in Vancouver, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Hyderabad, Montréal, Mohali, Bangalore, Chennai, Toronto, and Sydney.
Cartoon Network Studios, Inc. (abbreviated as CNS or CN Studios) is an American animation studio owned by the Television Group division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a subsidiary of Skydance Corporation. Founded in 1994 as a division of Hanna-Barbera, it primarily produces and develops animated programs and shorts for Cartoon Network and its programming blocks Adult Swim and Cartoonito, in addition to the streaming service HBO Max. Notable shows produced by the studio include Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Evil Con Carne, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Camp Lazlo, Ben 10, Chowder, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, Clarence, Over the Garden Wall, We Bare Bears, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Craig of the Creek, Summer Camp Island, and Infinity Train. In 1996, Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System, which owned Cartoon Network and Hanna-Barbera at that time. In 1997, Hanna-Barbera consolidated its operations with Warner Bros. Animation, moving into their facilities in 1998, where Cartoon Network Studios also operated briefly. Hanna-Barbera closed permanently in 2001, and Warner Bros. Animation has managed its intellectual property to this day, occasionally using the Hanna-Barbera brand as a label. In 1999, Cartoon Network acquired a large building in Burbank, California, to serve as the headquarters for Cartoon Network Studios after its effective separation from Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation. This was due to the need for Cartoon Network Studios to become an independent entity dedicated to creating original series, while Warner Bros. Animation focused on existing intellectual properties. The studio opened on May 22, 2000, and operated in those facilities for over 20 years. In the 2020s, after multiple corporate mergers, the studio was consolidated into Warner Bros. Animation, and continued to operate as a separate division, although it was relocated to Second Century Development as the company's new headquarters on August 1, 2023. Sam Register, the president of both studios in Burbank, California, also leads Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe (formerly Cartoon Network Studios Europe) in London, England, alongside Vanessa Brookman.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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