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Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Goin’ Back to T- Town’: Lessons from the Tulsa Race Massacre January 22, 2021 9:36 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz Smoke billows skyward in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oka., on June 1, 1921, when white mobs invaded the Black neighborhood district, killed hundreds of resi...

Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons as Jake in Im Thinking Of Ending Things. | Mary Cybulski / Netflix In I’m Thinking of Ending Things (134 minutes), Jake (Jesse Plemons) drives Louisa (Jesse Buckley) through snow-covered country roads to meet his parents at their remote farm. Both are extremely uncomfortable. Louisa thinks repeatedly about terminating their seven-week relationship. Jake seems intent on displaying his shaky self-worth. They need to prove something to themselves. Discomfort ris...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. How capitalism underdeveloped Appalachia: The economic truth ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ ignores December 1, 2020 10:27 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz Fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cutout depicting a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky...

Tired of the formulaic diet of high-density superhero fat clogging our entertainment arteries? The new Netflix series The Queen’ s Gambit offers a brilliant, well-etched study of a different kind of superhero. Instead of non-stop fighting between cartoon characters representing good and evil, Queen’ s Gambit is the story of growing up in a difficult society under adverse circumstances, amidst more subtle shadings of morality. The show’s creators Scott Frank ( Out of Sight) and Allan Sco...

Director Frederick Wiseman has gifted us with a movie for our times. City Hall is all about democracy—how it works, who does it, and why it is so vital. In a time of authoritarian challenges, it could not be more important. Wiseman’s documentary is a brilliant mosaic. He pieces together the work of civil servants in the City of Boston: public meetings, official functions, strategy sessions, field work. A civics lesson in action unfolds as we view police, building inspectors, teachers, garb...

Site work begins at former Kohls Sign In Dec. 10, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail FAIRFIELD — The former Kohl’s site at 290 Tunxis Hill Road, Fairfield, has begun site work in preparation for its planned interior fit-out to accommodate new tenants, Aldi and Floor & Décor. The site’s new owner, Michael Berkowitz, anticipates that interior construction will begin within the next two weeks, and he plans for tenant occupancy by mid-2021. In June of 2019, Berkowitz purchased the Kohl’s property a...

>> reporter: in justifying last months military intervention in libya, president obama used solely humanitarian reasons, saying the u.s. was acting to prevent a massacre of innocent civilians. >> some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. the united states of america is different. >> reporter: according to prominent yale law school professor stephen carter, this marks a significant moral shift in americas use of force. >> president obama, unlike hi...

>> this country today has enormous need to up there. i was present at a meeting of the health committee. i am on the committee and we had a guy from the oecd who did education and he said the kids in our country are falling behind young people around the rest of the world in terms of graduation rates for high school, brett tuition breaks for college. we will not compete internationally if our educational system is not up to par. we have pure manufacturing jobs than we have had for 40 o...