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The year of living digitally: Top 30 global TV series of 2020

December 23, 2020 By Dennis Broe

The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This...

A pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary

December 22, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...

TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series

December 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...

Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences

December 21, 2020 By Mônica Nunes

From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...

Remembering protest singer Phil Ochs on his 80th birthday

December 18, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Ochs was one of our nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements.