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A month before COVID ran rampant in the United States, fans of Native film had reason to celebrate. What now seems like years ago, Maori filmmaker Taika Waitiki took the stage on February 9 th, 2020, at the Academy Awards ceremony to accept the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Set in Nazi Germany in the waning days of WWII, the winning film, Jojo Rabbit, was justly lauded for conveying a cathartic message of hope and humor during a time of unspeakable horror. Yet it’s the message Waitiki spoke from that elite podium that resonates loudest. The first Indigenous person to be nominated and ...

Patrick Bidelman walked out of his trailer, as the 80-year-old Nokomis resident does every afternoon at 1:30, and retrieved his mail. Good – the package of vitamin supplements his girlfriend ordered had arrived. There were also a couple of insurance brochures, and a reminder from the Democratic Party to renew his membership. The letter, he figured, was junk. He returned inside, stood by his work bench, and opened it anyway. The first sentence was interesting: “Patrick Bidelman, you are a piece of (excrement) for your letter to the Herald on Nov. 17.” He paused and took the letter to Sa...

Christmas came early 36 years ago for the Judds. It was on this day (Dec. 22) in 1984 that the mother-daughter duo, made up of Naomi and Wynonna Judd, landed at the top of the charts with their hit single "Why Not Me." "Why Not Me," written by Harlan Howard, Sonny Throckmorton and Brent Maher, was the debut single from and title track of the Judds' first full-length studio album. The song -- which questions, "Why not me on a rainy day? / Why not me to love your cares away? / Why not me? / Why not me when the nights get cold? / Why not me when you're growin' old? / Why not me?" -- stayed ...

Stand, the people in sacramento will stand, the people in louisiana and people in new york and people across this country. they have to excel and force this president and attorney general to do something to make sure they are looking into these matters when justice does not seem to happen when&they continue to happen over and over and over again. >> agreed. >> let's talk about the tight for tat between the united states and russian diplomats on both sides back and forth. yet the president remains completely quiet about this. and i want to read something that is reported by my colleagues at nbc...

We are no longer scattered among the nations powerless to defend ourselves. we have restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. and soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage, for the first time in 100 generations, we the jewish people can defend ourselves. [ applause ] this is why, this is why as prime minister of israel i can promise you one more thing. even if israel has to stand-alone, israel will stand.stand alone, israel will stand. [ applause ]