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REVIEW: This is a compelling, thought-provoking and extremely apposite conversation about the African-American experience.

Review: Icons converge in resonant 'One Night in Miami' Drama envisions a night shared between Black icons Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown Adam Graham Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown walk into a hotel room. A setup for a joke? Hardly. It's the premise of "One Night in Miami," director Regina King's thoughtful adaptation of Kemp Powers' stage play, about a fictional meeting of the four Black cultural icons at an important crossroads in both their lives and in the American civil rights movement.  Yes, fictional: while this meeting of the minds did in fact oc...

Florida International University Search Students and faculty take stock of yesterday and today in Miami’s neighborhoods A professor acts on his beliefs Iqbal Akhtar thought living his faith should translate into buying a home in a community where he could do the most good. So he and wife Jafreen Jaffery started to look around. At the time the pair resided in a rental apartment on Miami’s famed Brickell Avenue, known for fancy condos and high-end lifestyles. Every day, the couple—he a professor of religious studies and political science in the Steven J. Green School of International & Pu...

Is One Night in Miami a True Story? Yes, but the Writer Took Some Creative Liberties 14 Shares Watchmen's Regina King has graced us with her feature directorial debut, and it's already swarming with critical acclaim and Oscar buzz. Based on the play by Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami follows a fictional conversation between four Black icons: boxer Muhammad Ali, aka Cassius Clay (Eli Goree); football player Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge); soul singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.); and activist Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir). The film takes place on the night of Feb. 25, 1964, the historic date that 22-...

Information on COVID-19 cases and deaths at one Luzerne County nursing home that’s been missing for months from state reports appeared in the most recent report last week, but data for two other local facilities remains absent. Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing at Lakeside in Dallas reported that no residents or staff there had tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began early this year, according to the report from the state Department of Health. COVID-19 case numbers and the numbers of related deaths at Timber Ridge Health Center in Plains Twp. and The Gardens at Wyomi...