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The Origin of "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers"

March 2, 2010 by Susan Albert Lo...

Around 1990, I called my friend Geoff Cowan seeking information about a First Amendment issue I was researching. Geoff was teaching at UCLA at the time and was known to be an expert in the field. He answered my questions, and then told me about a docudrama he had written with his friend Leroy Aarons called TOP SECRET: THE BATTLE FOR THE PENTAGON PAPERS. Leroy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was The Washington Post bureau chief at the time of the “dust up” over the Papers.

This International Women’s Day, Celebrate the Movement That’s Changing the World One Woman at a Time

February 22, 2010 by CARE

As March ushers in Women’s History Month, CARE, the global poverty-fighting organization, will present its second annual International Women’s Day event on Thursday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m., at movie theaters across the US. The best-selling book, Half the Sky, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, will be brought to life onscreen for a special one-night-only event.

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"Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy"

February 16, 2010 by Marcia G. Yerman

In 1987, Robert Townsend wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Hollywood Shuffle – a comedy that took a look at how African-Americans were stereotyped and marginalized in film and television. In the new documentary, Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy, director Townsend comments on the genesis of Hollywood Shuffle saying, “It was born out of a lot of pain.”

The Man in Room 306, a new off-Broadway Play about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

February 4, 2010 by ManinRoom306

When I first joined The Man in Room 306, Craig Alan Edwards (writer, performer, and co-producer) gave me a copy of a New Yorker article entitled “How David Beats Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell. As I read it, I realized that our struggle in bringing a politically important work of art to New York City not only mirrored David’s battle with Goliath, it also emulated the organizational and emotional challenges of Dr.