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Music Review: Malcolm Holcombe – Pretty Little Troubles
Photo by John Gellman Malcolm Holcombe releases another gravelly blast from the shadows with Pretty Little Troubles, his new album produced with homespun grace by Darrell Scott. The pairing proves a...
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I am Ashamed to be an American, Part Two
Trump at a Rally Continued from Part One There’s no disputing some of the fundamentals that paved the way for and ushered in Mr. Trump’s electoral college victory. The steady impoverishment of both...
View ArticleImmigration Report: More Than 1 in 5 DOJ Prisoners Foreign-Born, Vast...
Mark Twain once famously maintained it could probably be shown through facts and statistics that there’s “no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.” What then would that celebrated...
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SXSW 2018 Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Jason Outenreath on His Immigration...
Making its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival was the feature-length documentary They Live Here, Now, conceived and directed by human rights filmmaker Jason Outenreath. Shot on location...
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Interview: Ndaba Mandela, Author of ‘Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from...
Ndaba Mandela is the grandson of the late Nelson Mandela, one of the world’s greatest leaders and humanitarians. As co-founder and co-chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation, he seeks to promote a...
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Noura’ by Heather Raffo at Playwrights...
The tribulations of refugees and immigrants have been front and center on the world stage for some time now. Often these are reported in the context of the cruel or indifferent attitudes of the more...
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Movie Review: ‘Atlantics’ at the 57th New York Film Festival
New York Film Festival Guide Director Mati Diop’s hybrid mystery, horror, and magical realism love story Atlantics won this year’s Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Diop is the first black...
View ArticleState of the Union Circa 2020 – Part I
I It would be a mistake trying to make sense of the Trump era in terms of the personality or antics of its major exponent, Trump himself. Tempting though it may be, it’d produce no significant result....
View ArticleState of the Union Circa 2020 – Part II
Continued from Part I I What was it about the immigration issue that had so energized the voting public? Not only the bulk of the rural and right-leaning South, but also a significant bloc of the...
View ArticleState of the Union Circa 2020 – Part III
Continued from Part II I The most immediate consequence of the populist movement afoot, propelled as it is by unabashed anti-immigration sentiment, is a near-total bifurcation of the voting public....
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