Alfre Woodard is reuniting with her Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys co-star Kathy Bates in the upcoming film Summer Camp, which also stars Diane Keaton. The trio stars in the Roadside Attractions film as three women who met decades ago at summer camp and used to be the best of friends until, of course, […]
A civil rights activist and newspaper publisher Daisy Lee Gatson Bates played a huge role in the integration of the Little Rock Nine into Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High School in 1957. Bates was born Daisy Lee Gatson on November 11, 1914, in Huttih, Arkansas. In a tragic event her mom, Millie Riley, was killed […]
In 2020, Amazon opened a new warehouse in Bessemer, AL. Jennifer Bates believed the warehouse would bring economic growth to the city and got a job there would give her more time to spend with her grandchildren according to CNN. A year later Bates, had no clue she’d end up testifying to Congress about her […]