CBS is developing a pilot based of the hit Rush Hour film series. Justin Hires will playing the role made famous by Chris Tucker. He will be playing opposite Jon Foo. Hires’s career is on the come up. Will this be the role that catapults him to stardom. I guess we’ll see.

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Laverne Cox already won our hearts playing the affable jailhouse hairdresser Sophia on Orange is the New Black, but it looks like we’ll be getting a chance to see a lot more of her.

Cox will be starring in a CBS legal drama pilot, Doubt. Doubt is centered around an Ivy League-educated lawyer who is motivated by injustices she’s suffered. Her experiences push her even further when going to bat for her clients.

If Doubt makes it to air, Cox would be the first transgendered regular character on a primetime CBS show.

Source: BuzzFeed

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One can hardly get on a bus without thinking of Rosa Parks. Her refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her civil disobedience cemented her place in the history books.

Today is Rosa Park’s birthday, so it’s only fitting that she would be honored today. In California, it is Rosa Parks Day. Seeing as how big a part women have played in the Civil Rights Movement, it’s good to see one get recognition, as many others were relegated behind the lines.

In 2002, CBS aired a television film based on her titled The Rosa Parks Story. It starred Angela Bassett as Rosa Parks. It chronicled her life, including her refusal to give up her bus seat and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The Rosa Parks Story won several NAACP Image Awards and Black Reel Awards while earning Julie Dash a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Miniseries or Movies for Television, a first for a Black female director.

The Rosa Parks Story is available here.

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