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He was as unlikely a champion as seen come any sport. Physically he was nothing to look at. He had a great big knobby of knees, his neck was too big, he had a big hammer head. He had this flailing motion when he ran as if he were swatting flies. They tried to give him away and was rejected by how bad he was. The day that Charles Howard discovered seabiscuit tell us how charles was first introduced to this horse. He and his wife were sitting up in the grandstand. Saratoga was the lowest level of ...

Dots Johnson was a stage and film actor best known for his roles in the film Paisan and as the boxing manager in The Joe Louis Story.

THE INAUGURAL FILM of postwar queer cinema and a watershed event in the history of the American avant-garde, Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks of 1947 is an autobiographical account of the awakening of desire. Shot when the filmmaker was only seventeen years old,1 the film is the sadomasochistic fantasy of a young man, played by the teenage Anger, who dreams he is sexually assaulted by a gang of sailors. Like its young author, the film was precocious. Made in the immediate aftermath of World War II, j...

In his 94 years, Sidney Poitier was more than an actor or director. His first film, “No Way Out” may be his most hard-hitting movie about racism.

It is a tribute to the civil rights movement and its recent incarnation as Black Lives Matter that, according to recent polls, a majority of white Americans believe that Black people are not treated fairly in our society, not only by police but also by other institutions. In fact, only 10% of American voters believe that racism is “not a problem at all.” Among those who hold that opinion, 91 percent voted for Donald Trump. If you want to understand know how people can be blinded by hatred, ...