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Getty Images By Rafael Bernal – 10/10/16 02:29 PM EDT In a year in which Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald TrumpGiuliani: Clinton admitted to crimes at debate No end to poverty without reducing wealth inequality Trump again pushing unscientific polls to prove he won debate MORE is proposing a crackdown on immigration, all six of…
“The Birth of a Nation” arrives amid a resurgence in movies about slavery. Credit Illustration by Keith Negley Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the summer of 1831, Nat Turner’s slave insurrection ripped through Southampton County, Virginia, leaving scores of white men, women, and children dead. The rebels were captured and tried in Jerusalem, a few…
close story-meta-footer Video Ken Bone’s Debate Moment Ken Bone, an audience member who asked a question about energy policy at the second presidential debate on Sunday, has become an internet sensation. Publish Date October 10, 2016. Photo by The New York Times. Watch in Times Video » A desperate America seeking distraction from an ugly…
Nate Parker as “Nat Turner” in THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Jahi Chikwendiu/FOX Searchlight movies Difficult ‘Birth’ How the troubling gender politics of Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ were sidelined by two years of #OscarsSoWhite .share Back in January, Nate Parker was The Savior. Anointed with prizes by both the audience and the…
Nate Parker has made a series of demonstrably foolish public statements in the months leading up to the release of The Birth of A Nation, a film that postures itself as a revolutionary story about Nat Turner’s Virginia slave revolt. As Parker trudges his way through a promo trail for a film that many agree…
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, there’s a red brick building with a green door. Twelve families live there. They’re almost all single moms with kids, and they are all, by federal definition, homeless.The families are part of a transitional housing program called Turner Street. It’s two years long, and its purpose is to give them what they…
Within 24 hours of plugging in her Amazon Echo, Carla Martin-Wood says she felt they were best friends. “It was very much more like meeting someone new,” she says. Living alone can be hard when you’re older—Ms. Martin-Wood is 69 years old. She is among a growing cohort who find the Echo, a voice-controlled, internet-connected…
Guest Post by ConcernedForMulan A white merchant’s business brings him to the heart of a legendary Asian conflict — he unwittingly helps save the day while winning the heart of the Asian female. Am I describing the plotline of the Netflix series Marco Polo? No. I’m describing the spec script that Disney bought for its…
A more spry Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Image: Fox Months ago, Patrick Stewart dropped the news that his version of Professor X would be appearing in the third Wolverine film. Now that we know the film is called Logan and it’s set in 2024 (as well as a certain mutant who…
Image: Getty Hurricane Matthew ravaged Haiti on Tuesday, completely decimating the southeastern region of the country and killing 842 people, according to local authorities. Information has been slow to make its way to the rest of the world, because areas hit hardest by the hurricane were remote coastal villages, completely disconnected from the rest of…