Blogs
First ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival
March 10, 2010 by Amnesty Interna...
Included are a film festival, theater festival, dance festival, music festival, digital art festival, art installations, dozens of workshops, book readings, art exhibits, performance art and other activities, plus a dozen advocacy groups running art programming as “Festivals within the Festival.”
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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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.
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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.”