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Left: Lisa Lai, 65, dances during breaks in the shop in Philadelphia. Right: Liang Runling, 56, stands for a portrait at Jamaica Pond, Brookline, Mass. Shuran Huang hide caption
Tom Hanks recently wrote an essay in The New York Times urging more widespread teaching of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The Oscar winner has built a career on movies about American white men doing the right thing. Steve Granitz/WireImage hide caption
Riz Ahmed at the 2021 Academy Awards. Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images hide caption
Just 10% Of Popular Movies Had A Muslim Character. Riz Ahmed Wants To Change That
Grammy-winning artist Sara Bareilles. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the Artist hide caption
Grammy Award-winning artist Sara Bareilles. Shervin Lainez /Courtesy of the Artist hide caption
Hosts of NBC's American Ninja Warrior Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila. Michael Becker/NBC hide caption
Hosts of NBC's American Ninja Warrior Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila. Elizabeth Morris/NBC hide caption
Rugrats stars Cheryl Chase and Nancy Cartwright. Courtesy of the Artists hide caption
Pictured: Tommy Dewey as Stu Pickles, Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster and Cheryl Chase as Anjelica Pickles of the Paramount+ series Rugrats. Nickelodeon/Paramount+ hide caption
Omar Sy stars as a shapeshifting thief in the Netflix series Lupin. Emmanuel Guimier/Netflix hide caption
COMIC: Director Jon M. Chu's Long Journey From Home Videos To 'In The Heights'
Anthony Ramos stars in Jon M. Chu's film adaptation of In The Heights. Macall Polay/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. hide caption
A sculpture created out of electronic waste in the likeness of Mount Rushmore and the G-7 leaders sits on a hill in Cornwall, England, near where the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations will meet. Jon Super/AP hide caption
2 Artists Want G-7 Leaders To End E-Waste. So They Sculpted Them Out Of Trash
A mini replica of the French-designed Statue of Liberty will reach the U.S. on July 1. Here, the statue awaits its move in Paris on Monday. Francois Mori/AP hide caption
Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera play Usnavi and Vanessa in the film In the Heights. Warner Bros. hide caption
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'In The Heights' Is A Spirited, Socially Undistanced, Summer Crowd Pleaser
Night Came With Many Stars, by Simon van Booy David R. Godine, Publisher hide caption
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights has been adapted for the big screen, directed by Jon M. Chu. Filming on the street, they'd stop for passing emergency vehicles and their time was limited by the natural light. Warner Bros. Pictures/2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. hide caption
'In The Heights' Dances From The Stage, To The Streets, To The Screen
Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kris Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, and Kendall Jenner in Hollywood at the Kardashian Kollection Launch Party in 2011. Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images hide caption
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Warner Bros. hide caption