Month: June 2020

NPR’s Noel King talks to director Spike Lee about his new film, Da 5 Bloods, in which four black veterans go back to present day Vietnam to bring home the remains of their beloved former squad leader.

We asked photographers to show us how their world has been altered by the pandemic. Their pictures show the many things that are lost for the moment — as well as new ways to find comfort and joy.

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NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talk to Mark Ruffalo about his HBO Max series, I Know This Much is True.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Drew Shade, founder of Broadway Black, about the first ever Antonyo Awards, highlighting the achievement of Black theatre artists.

Fred Noland imagines a humorous scenario in which old friends drift apart only for one to turn into a telepathic world menace.

The flattening effect of political discourse, insipidity of the first lady role and Melania’s own remoteness have led us to either forget she has an inner life — or to imagine her an elegant prisoner.

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Journalist Jamiles Lartey calls policing an “avatar of American racism.” Justin Chang reviews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods. Davidson and Apatow talk about their new film, The King of Staten Island.

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Kathryn Kvas and Mia Mercado offer tips about shopping, social etiquette, e-mailing, talking to parents, and dating during the coronavirus pandemic.

Shiraishi a pro at climbing sheer rock faces, we’ve invited her to play a game called “Let’s take the easy way up.”

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Former Murrow Boy Dan Schorr and “Mouth of the South” Ted Turner seem like an unlikely pairing — but when Turner was launching CNN 40 years ago, the veteran newsman was his first editorial employee.

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