Culture
Echo Theater Company offers readings of new plays about sexuality and identity
January 11, 2021The Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, presents LABFest 2021, a virtual reading festival of three new plays.
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Compelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet
January 8, 2021David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”
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New book: Indonesia was model for anti-communist massacres, U.S. complicity
January 7, 2021In many places, to whisper “Jakarta” or scrawl the word on public surfaces served as a warning to activists.
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The best films of DOC NYC 2020
January 5, 2021You can now attend many great world festivals, and for much less the cost. Online.
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‘American Utopia’: Still making sense
January 4, 2021Byrne and director Spike Lee have combined to reexamine themes they both have explored individually over the years.
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