Weekly Quiz: Black History Made, TV Farewells, US Open

The Zombie Apocalypse hit The Walking Dead will end its 11 seasons run in 2022, leaving behind one spin-off plus three in the making. 

Katie Holmes made her big-screen debut in the role of Libbets Casey in Ang Lee’s film The Ice Storm. You’ll be happy to learn that over Labor Day weekend, she appeared to be enjoying a romantic dinner date with chef Emilio Vitolo.

Amid the UK plans to break the Brexit divorce treaty with the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, tweeted she was ‘Very Concerned’ and added in Latin, ‘Agreements must be kept.’

Montenegro is a tiny country in Southeast Europe, with a population of less than 1 Million. In its latest parliamentary elections, which took place this week, the opposition parties saw their first victory in 30 years.

After a 14 year and 20 season run, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will be ending next year. The Kardashians themselves, it appears, are here to stay indefinitely. 

Hungary borders Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. The falling democracy in Hungary is now hurting the country’s art institutes. It appears that the entire management team of Hungary’s prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts has resigned on Monday. This, after the government had imposed a new board of supervisors for the school.

Did the President of the United States, and its military’s commander in chief, call fallen soldiers ‘losers’? The Atlantic says he did, and CNN kind of confirms. The President himself chose to attack late Steve Jobs’ wife in retaliation for the magazine’s story.

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Get Down on It was a #1 hit for Kool & the Gang in 1982.

RIP Ronald “Khalis” Bell. Co-founder,  singer, and producer of the group Kool & the Gang has died at the age of 68.

The 39-year-old DJ and businesswoman YouTube Originals documentary This Is Paris premieres Sept. 14. Hilton opened up for the first time about a secret abuse she suffered at a Utah boarding school she attended. 

In his new book, Rage, acclaimed journalist Bob Woodward quotes a conversation with President Trump they held last March, in which the president explained he was playing down the pandemic to avoid panic in America. 

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Musician Maria Kolesnikova, the opponent of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, was allegedly seized by masked men in Minsk and taken away in a van. She is now detained in the Ukraine border.

Playa Las Gatas is actually in Mexico. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro, though, have celebrated their Independence Day by heading to the beach this weekend. This is happening while Brazil is trying to cope with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

Happy Labor day!

The Covid-19 pandemic is hurting big merchandisers. Some of them are preparing for today’s Labor Day sales – others prefer to keep their stores shut.