Already hit hard by pandemic, Black and Hispanic communities suffer the blows of an unforgiving winter storm click to enlarge Ben Torres for The Texas Tribune Marleny Almendarez, 38, with her niece Madelyne Hernandez, 3, and two boys, Aaron Hall, 11, and Matthew Hall, 14, outside their home in Dallas on Feb. 18, 2021. The family spent two nights at a mobile warming station to avoid the cold temperatures. Neighborhoods across the state some lined with million dollar homes, others by more modest dwellings went cold and dark for days as Texas struggled to keep the power on during a dangerous winter storm. But while the catastrophe wrought by unprecedented weather was shared by millions left shivering in their own homes, the suffering was not equally spread.
With Drawn Arms Review: Empowering Doc Returns to the Salute at 1968 Olympics
The Tommie Smith doc claims its place among the significant films addressing Civil Rights and Black Power.
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As a Japanese-American kid growing up in Los Angeles, Glenn Kaino was drawn to the image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos standing with arms raised on the podium of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, during the medal presentation for the 200-meter dash. Not that he saw “the salute” live; he wasn’t yet born. But that’s how iconic the image of the two track-and-field stars had become. As an artist and the co-director of “With Drawn Arms” streaming now Kaino took that memory, sought Smith out and began a collaboration that led to a 2018 art exhibit and to this moving and relevant documentary.
Book World: What made the civil rights movement successful - and what came next
Clifford Thompson, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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By Thomas C. Holt
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Thomas C. Holt s slim volume, The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, achieves in just 120 pages of text a comprehensiveness that belies its length. What makes that possible is that Holt focuses on the civil rights movement itself rather than the personalities involved. We do not get, say, an assessment of the character of Martin Luther King Jr. or speculation about Ralph David Abernathy s envy of his more famous best friend. What we do get is a fascinating breakdown of the movement s phases as well as a look at the groundwork that made the successes possible.
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