C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary
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C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth century's most remarkable individuals. As the author of the...
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
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One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books WITH AN APPENDIX OF NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED...
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
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Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among...
Gran Torino (2009)
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Clint Eastwood, the Academy Award-winning director of Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven and...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
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Since the early 1980s, neoliberalism-the political work of shrinking the state, shredding the social...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Marshall (2017) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
I was enthralled by this film. It popped up on my listings and I went to it without knowing anything more than the fact it was a biopic. Just like Hidden Figures, this was an interesting, heart-breaking and moving tale.
Chadwick Boseman, who some of us will know as Black Panther in the Marvel Universe, was a brilliant lead. Josh Gad felt like such an odd choice, I've only ever seen him in comedy films or staring as our favourite feathered or Frozen friends, but the two of them together brought this powerful story to life on the screen.
There aren't many films where I come out knowing that I didn't miss a second of what happened, but this one had me on the edge of my seat. Not so much for the guy across the aisle though, I'm fairly certain that he was snoring at one point.
Complete Poems
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2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric,...
How Beautiful We Were
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Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people...
Africa Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Cameroon
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Timothy J. O'Brien and David Ensminger
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In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall...
Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist
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"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." - Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised...