Culture
Anti-fascist film ‘La guerre est finie’ to screen in L.A.
August 21, 2018The film takes place in 1965 in France and Spain. One of the ideological issues at stake is how best to oppose Franco’s dictatorship.
Read more‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
Read more“Screwball Comedy”: A comic collision of classes
August 20, 2018In Norm Foster’s Screwball Comedy the Canadian playwright emulates movies of the film genre of the same name that had their heyday during the Depression.
Read moreAretha Franklin: Her legacy in music and social justice lives on
August 16, 2018Franklin’s activism went beyond the lyrics of her songs, as she used her platform to help many social justice campaigns.
Read more‘BlacKkKlansman’ glosses over police and white supremacy ties
August 16, 2018Though the movie lacks nuance in its discourse around racism, it confronts viewers with the reality of our current political climate.
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