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Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51
April 30, 2019Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.
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May Day flashbacks: Memories of a Communist and working-class leader
April 30, 2019On this special day, workers hold their heads higher and walk with a jaunty spring to their step. This is their day.
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‘In the Penal Colony’: A Philip Glass opera based on Franz Kafka
April 30, 2019LONG BEACH, Calif.—Two of the world’s most popular and introspective artists have paired up after almost four-score years to create a mesmerizing piece of stage theatre that operagoers will not soon forget. Southern California is currently...
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‘The Twilight Zone’: ‘The Wunderkind’ takes aim at politics and Donald Trump
April 30, 2019“Society is a fragile ecosystem. Razzle and dazzle people with the right lies, and eventually they’ll go blind to the madness right in front of their faces."
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Santa Anita horse deaths overshadow reforms made elsewhere
April 30, 2019“When you see spates of breakdowns like this, which are very unusual, you know something’s going on and something is impacting it.”
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