arts and culture
Fighting racism on two fronts: ‘The Double V’ on stage
August 28, 2024Carole Eglash-Kosoff has thankfully rescued an important chapter in human rights history from obscurity and crafted an enjoyable anti-racist, antifascist, feminist drama about Blacks joining the crusade to make the world safe for democracy.
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Remembering Leandro Della Piana, Jr.: Artist, educator, and activist
August 26, 2024Leandro was an accomplished sculptor and draftsman, an art educator, a set designer, an alchemist, and a life-long searcher for meaning and truth.
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre fires union dancers, brings in scab labor
August 26, 2024With strong labor and community support, the fired dancers are fighting back.
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‘Alien: Romulus’ review: Horror and anti-corporate message stay strong in latest franchise addition
August 15, 2024It may be the seventh film of the Alien franchise, but this critic would argue it’s easily the third-best of the entire series.
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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