As part of the company's Inspiring Women series, a Barbie doll will be created in Dr. The I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings memoirist, civil rights activist and poet died in 2014 at age 86, but the toy maker has found a special way to share her legacy with younger generations. Maya Angelou just received a huge honor from Mattel's most famous doll…Barbie! About James Baldwinīorn in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin was a gay African American writer and civil rights activist who spent much of his life outside the U.S., writing largely about Black identity, activism, sexuality and race relations.Dr. I stand on James Baldwin’s shoulders, and I intend to expand his legacy for generations to come,” Porter said in a statement. “As a Black queer man on this planet with relative consciousness, I find myself, like James Baldwin said, ‘in a rage all the time.’ I am because James was. The deep look into Baldwin’s life and struggles represents the culmination of a long-held creative ambition for the Emmy-, Tony- and Grammy Award-winning performer. Porter and Dan McCabe will write the script for the biopic based on David Leeming’s 1994 book James Baldwin: A Biography. Billy Porter will play in James Baldwin biopic “USADA has advocated and will continue to advocate to WADA, the rule maker, to treat marijuana in a fairer and more effective way to identify true in-competition use,” the statement reads.īilly Porter is set to play writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin in an upcoming biopic produced by Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group Motion Pictures. USADA acknowledged that controversial debate in its statement Tuesday while deferring to rules set by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Her suspension raised debate over why athletes are still suspended for a drug that has widely been decriminalized in the U.S. USADA wrote that Davis-Woodhall was “disqualified from all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to Febru… including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes.”ĭavis-Woodhall’s penalty comes after US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s high-profile ban during the 2020 Olympics (which took place in 2021 in Tokyo) following a positive cannabis test.
USADA said Davis-Woodhall’s suspension was reduced to one month for those reasons and because she completed a substance abuse treatment program.īut the reduced penalty did not save her national title. Per WADA rules, THC allows for a reduced three-month suspension if the athlete establishes the substance was not competition and sport performance related. “USADA has advocated and will continue to advocate to WADA, the rule maker, to treat marijuana in a fairer and more effective way to identify true in-competition use.” “WADA seeks input on each year’s updated version of the Prohibited List,” USADA’s press release states. USDA said Davis-Woodhall has already completed her suspension, which she began serving on March 21.Ĭannabis, marijuana, and hashish are considered prohibited substances under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules. Officials were notified of the 23-year-old’s positive test from the result of a sample collected at the 2023 USA Track and Field indoor championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 17, right after she had won the title with a jump of 6.99 meters. USADA said Davis-Woodhall tested positive for THC, a chemical found in cannabis, marijuana, or hashish. Tara Davis-Woodhall suspended faces consequences for testing positive for cannabis US long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall has been stripped of her recent national indoor title and suspended for one-month after she tested positive for cannabis, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced Tuesday.
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