In the fifth interview of our series “Cultivating Latino Arts” filmmaker Ray Santisteban talks about the roots of disenfranchisement, the FBI’s history of repression, and how a coalition of some of Chicago’s poorest, least-educated groups changed the future of national politics.
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The newly elected Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, made a jarring equation when he described his feelings surrounding the killing of 1,000 Muslims during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Illustrator Marian Kamensky captures this callous comment in today’s Curated Cartoons.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao writes about the Chinese government’s dissident roundup as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches on June 4.
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Journalist and novelist Andrey Kurkov comments on the status of press freedom and Russian propaganda affecting Ukrainian media outlets during this fifth installment of The Freedom Chat.
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Pittsburgh historian and longtime civic activist Agnes Dodds Kinard, 99, died peacefully at home May 22nd at Longwood at Oakmont in Verona, Pa.
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As fighting increases in Benghazi, Libya’s political stability is called into question.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo predicts a physical backlash against peaceful activists and journalists in Cuba.
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