Culture
Chicago actors Theo Germaine and Daniel Kyri push boundaries of queer representation
October 11, 2019National Coming Out Day special interview: “It doesn't matter who or how you love; we need to see the humanity in all people."
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‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness
October 11, 2019The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Netflix’s ‘Living Undocumented’ debunks Trump’s immigrant boogeyman myth
October 10, 2019It’s an important program to watch, especially as the nation marches towards the 2020 presidential election with immigration reform sure to be a main topic.
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Marie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival
October 10, 2019She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.
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‘A Kid Like Jake’: Parents grapple with gender expansive expression
October 9, 2019The acting is highly credible: Anyone who has been in an intimate relationship will recognize both the zenith and the nadir of emotions that we see here.
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