Chauncey K. Robinson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Chauncey K. Robinson
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Culture
Women directors of Hollywood: ‘This discrimination is real’
July 24, 2018An annual survey found that the moviemaking industry is no more diverse than it was close to a decade ago.
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Culture
Transformation Magic: The push for transgender representation in media continues
July 20, 2018One of the biggest conventions focusing on entertainment, art, and popular culture kicked off here on July 19. The largest convention of its kind in the world, Comic Con International: San Diego (SDCC) is where close...
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Culture
‘Game Girls’: An unfiltered documentary on being Black, lesbian, and homeless
July 19, 2018The unfiltered, and at times unsettling film forces us to acknowledge that the crisis of homelessness is not just faceless statistics.
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Culture
‘How Jack Became Black’: Documentary explores race in America
July 3, 2018Steele posits the question, “Is race a truth or a power,” and if it’s the latter, then a power for who exactly?
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Culture
‘The First Purge’: A horror movie terrifyingly close to reality
July 3, 2018Sometimes movies are terrifying not for their monsters and ghouls, but because they hold up a mirror to the atrocities of our reality.
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Politics
The fight against racist and political repression continues 45 years later
June 21, 2018"When we say 'survivors' we acknowledge their capacity to resist, and their strength to continue to fight against the conditions that led to the violence inflicted on them.”
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U.S.
Angela Davis: “Education must not be sacrificed at the altar of profit”
June 19, 2018Capitalism’s version of knowledge may allow us to figure out how to produce more, acquire more, and ultimately destroy more, but it will not give us an ethical sense of our responsibility to living beings.
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U.S.
‘We won’t be silent anymore’: Poor People’s Campaign speaks to Congress
June 14, 2018Their aim, as Rev. Barber made clear, was not to get applause, but to make the nation weep at the crisis of poverty in one of the richest countries in the world.
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