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Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's 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 residents, and burned down more than 1,200 homes. | Univ. of Tulsa Library Producer Sam Pollard ( MLK/...

Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons as Jake in 'I'm 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 rises to terror as Louisa meets Jake’s parents, played intensely by Toni Collette and David Thewli...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's 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. Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize, but the days when 'King Coal' dominated the live...

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 Scott ( Don ’t Look Now) richly adapted Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. The world of Q...

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, garbage collectors, planners, parking enforcers, senior service assistants. City staff and housing advoc...