With Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), the chief of the Broken Rock Indian Reservation, Yellowstone underlines the fraught relationship between present-day Native Americans and the descendants of white settlers. But Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves), an ancestor of Thomas, encounters far more unrelenting horrors as the principal Native perspective of prequel spinoff series 1923. While both series emphasize the extent to which white America ignores the Indigenous peoples it displaced, 1923 tells the story of Teonna’s forced assimilation via an unflinching depiction of one of the hundreds of government-funded Catholic boarding schools for Indigenous children — a setting rarely depicted in such detail on television. Read More...
Since winning American Idol, Carrie Underwood’s life has been so much more than “Just a Dream.”
The Oklahoma native shot to fame in 2005 after becoming the champion of the TV singing competition’s fourth season. Following the success of her debut single, “Inside Your Heaven,” which made her the first country music artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, she released her album Some Hearts.
And Underwood’s career was only just beginning. Read More...
Love it or hate it, when December rolls around, you can't escape hearing the 80s synths of 'Last Christmas' and Mariah Carey's iconic 'IIIIIII...'.
Christmas songs are a quintessential part of the festive period and started off as traditional carols, but have since evolved into the annual sausage roll-themed offerings of LadBaby.
And while they cover a wide spectrum of genres and subject matter, experts at the University of Agder in Norway have found that 11 instruments are continually used. Read More...