Culture
A love story in three acts
June 15, 2020Fifty-six years ago I was 19 years old, in the hospital giving birth to my son.
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Homage to Medgar Evers
June 12, 2020Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi.
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‘In the Heat of the Night’ on radio and streaming free
June 11, 2020The L.A. Theatre Works audio theater recording of John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, adapted for the stage by Matt Pelfrey, will air on radio stations across the country.
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‘The Vote’: As if our lives depended on it, then and now
June 11, 2020The Vote, writer-director Michelle Ferrari’s history of American women’s struggle to win the right to participate in elections, is more than an excellent comprehensive history.
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‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times
June 10, 2020The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.
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