Plus: Sidney Poitier's Message to White America
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June 05, 2020
This moment is all too familiar for activists like Rachel Cargle, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and others who are relying on radical hope and intergenerational resolve to keep the movement for Black liberation moving forward.
The star of When They See Us and Mrs. America talks about the awful lessons of George Floyd's death.
"It wasn't easy, but she was determined to say something," said a source about her video address to graduates of Immaculate Heart High School. "These are her words, her sentiments—it's 100% her."
With reporters in harm's way covering the protests, Cotton's op-ed "pours gasoline on the fire," in an escalation in the series of conflicts between James Bennet's Opinion department and the newsroom.
The sequel was set to arrive in theaters today—before the coronavirus pandemic forced its delay. Perhaps one of these films would be a worthy substitute.
The maker of Pelosi's #resistance fashion was also behind Trump's photo op accessory.
As race riots swept the nation in the summer of 1967, its most beloved movie actor was Sidney Poitier, whose three films that year—To Sir, With Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner—would also make him Hollywood's box office king. Charting Poitier's coolly uncompromising navigation of his symbolic status, Laura Jacobs recalls the pointed message he sent to white America.
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