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Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) - At the end of the nineteenth century, the Turkish government asked its Minister …

(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

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. 

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

(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

An excerpt from ‘Hills of Paradise: Power, Powerlessness, and the Female Body’, by Mineke Schipper.

From the blog of Susan Barth at The Times of Israel

Jonathon Rosen unlocks some of the secrets lying beneath the surface of his graphic veneer.

From the blog of Esor Ben-Sorek at The Times of Israel