Tyler Perry’s "Straw", currently streaming on Netflix, is a volatile cocktail of social critique, melodrama, and searing urgency, propelled by Taraji P Henson’s powerhouse performance. The film plunges headlong into the merciless pressure cooker of systemic injustice and personal breakdown, following Janiyah, a single Black mother whose life unravels over the course of one catastrophically bad day.

In a remarkable show of solidarity and commitment to resolving the ongoing actors' strike that has persisted for over 100 days, a group of Hollywood's most prominent stars convened on a Zoom call this Tuesday to propose a groundbreaking solution. Their unprecedented offer entails lifting the membership dues cap and introducing a new residual system for streaming platforms, aiming to bolster health benefits and address various concerns raised by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).