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Delroy Lindo can now be seen in Spike Lee’s new film Da 5 Bloods. Lindo has had memorable roles in films such as The Cider House Rules and Heist, and previously garnered critical acclaim in a trio of films with director Lee: Clockers, Crooklyn and Malcolm X. Other notable films include Wondrous Oblivion, Ransom, Get Shorty, Romeo Must Die, This Christmas (also as executive producer), and Pixar’s Up! On TV, he currently appears as Adrian Boseman in CBS’ The Good Fight (sequel to The Good Wife) and won an NAACP Award for a guest appearance on Law and Order: SVU. Also for TV, he produced and directed documentary interview films featuring Spike Lee, Charles Burnett and Joan Chen. On Broadway, Lindo received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations playing Herald Loomis in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, and played Walter Lee in the Kennedy Center and Los Angeles productions of A Raisin in the Sun (Helen Hayes Award Nomination and NAACP Image Award, Best Actor). Lindo directed the plays Blue Door and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone to critical acclaim at Berkeley Repertory Theater, and won a Los Angeles Theater Weekly Award directing the play Medal of Honor Rag. (Photo by George Ligon.)

Delroy Lindo

Film

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Jasmine Batchelor plays Jess in Jeremy Hersh’s <a href="https://www.monumentreleasing.com/the-surrogate-theatrical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Surrogate</a>, and is also an Associate Producer on the film, which is released by Monument Releasing on June 12. She is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia. After discovering a love for acting in high school, Jasmine went on to study acting at Wright State University and The Juilliard School. Recent television credits include New Amsterdam, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Fight, The Affair, Law &amp; Order: SVU and Miss 2059. In addition to film and television, Jasmine’s recent theater credits include projects at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights Realm, The Public Theater, Two River Theater, and Baltimore Center Stage. In his December 2019 New York Times review of Measure For Measure at the Public Theater, Jose Solís wrote, “Batchelor, whose expressive face recalls the oft-doomed heroines played by Lillian Gish, turns in an Isabella for the ages.”

Jasmine Batchelor

Say Her Name

Victoria Ruiz is frontwoman for Downtown Boys. Their album Full Communism is available now via Don Giovanni Records. You can follow Downtown Boys on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/downtownboys" target="_blank">here</a>.

Victoria Ruiz

Music

Fuck the Police: Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys) on Why You Should Protest the Cops, Too

George Floyd