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The moms of Moms for “Liberty” are feeling a little touchy, put-upon, even diminished. They’re making fools of themselves in the media.

In the months since the war broke out, the library has begun conducting tours for the public, and some of those visiting it have been families evacuated from the South.

(JTA) - Early in the new drama "Origin," the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin

(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of

In Ava DuVernay's experimental feat, Origins, she fell into a similar pattern of other movies depicting the largest Nazi book burning.

Here is a rare and excellent thing — a major dramatic feature about a Black woman intellectual

The film opens with the 2012 murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, later recreating Nazi-era Germany, the Jim Crow South and other moments it connects through the idea of caste. 

The film portrays Caste author Isabel Wilkerson exploring racism in Germany, India and the U.S.

Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller “Caste,” the film dramatizes Nazi Germany and connects it to other global systems of oppression.

Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States.