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Karen Attiah
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FROM Karen Attiah
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why black women are missing from stories of sex harrassment and abuse in Hollywood New sexual misconduct allegations against different men seem to tumble out every day. Could this be a long overdue moment of reckoning for powerful abusers? Maybe. But there’s a hole in the conversation. So far, most of the alleged victims we’ve heard from have been white women.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How are mass shootings and domestic violence linked? As law enforcement tries to figure out what led to Sunday’s attack at a Baptist church in rural Texas, debate over preventing mass shootings continues. In more than half of mass shootings, one of the victims was an intimate partner or relative of the shooter. In the Texas case, the shooter was court-martialed for abusing his wife and child.
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Spike Lee and John David Washington on ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Could this be the year the Academy finally nominates Spike Lee for Best Director or Best Picture? ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is looking like a contender. The film is based on the true story of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who went undercover with the KKK in the 1970s.
Bookworm
John Wray: Godsend John Wray discusses writing about the extremes of subjectivity, and breaking the reader of expectations in his new novel, Godsend.