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How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities
Through a public art project titled “Inequity For Sale,” artist Tonika Lewis Johnson illuminated the history of this theft.
Go Sculpt It on the Mountain
Certainly Martin Luther King deserves to be on a mountaintop, but he's not the only Black hero to have monumentally influenced American history and culture.
The Art and Tragedies of Andrei Tarkovsky and Pieter Bruegel in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The sublime images of a bucolic environment establish the centrality of the natural world, with the film’s protagonist cast as a thoughtful man of duty ready to travel through the nebulous regions of space for the betterment of scientific knowledge.
‘I Can’t Breathe’ Centers Murders of Black American Men
Unarmed fictionalized characters from different walks of life sing of how their interactions with law enforcement went so horribly wrong, and lives are forever changed.
Heading to the Graveyard to Pay Respects
Government by a few people for the benefit of some of their people is a dishonor to the dead. Let’s do better.
A Farewell to Arms?
It is a dangerous thing to speak supportively in the US about the plight of Palestinians, to question the policies and practices of Israel.
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Ella Madatyan: New American Bakes Her Way to Success
As the owner of five Papillon Bakeries in Los Angeles, Ella Madatyan uses her business success and relationship struggles to mentor other women facing similar challenges.
Black Luminaries Debating What Is to Be Done
A Heated Discussion is a sprawling counterpoint of views, counterarguments and experiences, not to mention solutions, as vastly diverse as the individuals comprising this combustible mix of personalities.
Sit Down and I'll Find a Story for You
Storytelling is crucial in panhandling, something I’ve never done but who knows what the future may hold?
A Long Day’s Journey into Shakespeare: The Monarch from Another Planet
King Lear deals with the themes of madness, but a more 21st century understanding of what appears to be happening to His Majesty is dementia
How Andy Treys Hit the Big Time
So good was Andy in high school that he even thought he might become a professional basketball player.
Making Waves with Pacific Cinewaves: South Seas Cinema Surges at LAAPFF
Indigenouos Now/Pacific Cinewaves: Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Capsule Reviews
Tambo & Bones: Trapped in a Minstrel Show
As the play progresses, the initial potency of anti-racism as a first (and only) principle devolves and degrades into something else, or dare I say, its opposite, just switching the color of the racism.
Women to the Rescue, Now!
A Review of “Hope, But Demand Justice” By Pat Hynes, 2022 Haley’s.
Even If Nobody Asked, I'll Tell You Anyway
I’ll never be a New Yorker but I live there because it gives me the same wonderment I felt riding my bike up Hennepin Avenue in 1955.
"The Savages" Like Life Itself Is Both Tragic and Comic
The great merit of The Savages is that it encourages us to see not just the tragic in life, but also the comic.
The Fifth Element at Twenty-Five, Love (and Fashion) Still Conquers All
Leeloo, with a style provided by Jean Paul Gaultier that defined a generation, is faced with the enormity of the known litany of destructiveness, horrors, suffering and cruelty that we humans have inflicted on each other, ourselves, throughout recorded history.
Aquaman Narrates Waterman
Ed Rampell: Spotlighting the Indigenous Athlete Who Broke the Color Barrier 35 Years Before Jackie Robinson.
A Life Spent Swimming Against the Tide
Once the Vietnam War ended, radicalized Knight did not return home to pursue a stereotypical American Dream.
Musk Follows Trump's Playbook
Picking fights is the surest way to consolidate power on Twitter.
Hawaiian Hero Helm Rides the Wild Cinematic Surf Again
This biopic about the great Hawaiian activist and musician George Helm (Kolea Fukumitsu) is a short crying out to be a feature-length film, if not a Lawrence of Arabia type epic.