Hot News Mix: A Brutal Boston Murder, ENDA’s Importance to PoC, + More

• It’s a story that got a decent share of coverage yesterday, but still managed to fly under the radar: A 22-year-old man killed 58-year-old Kanchanben Patel by dragging her along the road near Foxborough, Massachusetts, for three miles with his pick-up truck. Patel and her husband had recently celebrated receiving their American citizenship. [Zee News, Daily Mail]

• Does India’s annual Film Bazaar — taking place this year in Goa, over the next few days — have the makings to be the next Sundance or Cannes? [Variety]

Vocalo.org’s “The Morning AMp” revisited Simone Jhingoor’s response to the feminist backlash she experienced after getting proposed to on live TV — and used it as a jumping-off point about the state of contemporary feminism. It’s definitely worth a listen:

https://soundcloud.com/vocalo/the-morning-amp-council-of-1

[Twitter]

• When he’s not playing the late Lady Di’s love interest, Naveen Andrews apparently makes the time to channel Jafar — the evil vizier from Aladdin — on ABC’s Once Upon A Time In Wonderland. He claims that Jafar wasn’t “always evil.” [Zap2It]

• Read this piece on why ENDA is an especially critical and urgent issue for people of color. [Colorlines]

• Vivek Shraya is a very easy-on-the-eyes performer who’s just chucked online an album of Babyface-produced jams from the 80s and 90s. One of my favorites? His interpretation of Madonna’s “Take A Bow.” [SoundCloud]

Rohin Guha is a contributing editor at The Aerogram. Follow him on Twitter @ohrohin. Find The Aerogram on Twitter @theaerogram.

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