Analysis
Aesthetics meets politics in Josephine Baker tribute
June 23, 2017Daryl Brooks continues the Black Ensemble Theater's tradition of exploring the way that music and artists have given consciousness to the experience of racial oppression.
Read moreThe corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes
June 22, 2017If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...
Read moreLiar-in-Chief Trump outdoes even himself in Iowa
June 22, 2017Trump, who has lied continually since he was elected president last November, outdid even himself yesterday.
Read moreNew film “20 Weeks” asks, To birth or not to birth?
June 21, 2017With no plot complications outside the blinkered focus on the couple to distract us, the film seems dogged and redundant.
Read moreUnsatisfying self-satisfied lives depicted in South African film
June 20, 2017Writer/director Kagiso Lediga’s new film Catching Feelings received its world premiere on June 18 at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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