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So You Want to Talk About Race
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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...
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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
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There has been a wave of essential books and films / documentaries to counter current times. Here are some from 2017.
So You Want to Talk About Race
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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
politics
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...
politics social issues
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...
Politics social issues Race
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
social sciences
and 34 other items
Grinch (194 KP) rated Face the Nation - Season 1 in TV
Apr 21, 2017
Kimmic (814 KP) rated The Platform (2019) in Movies
Mar 22, 2020
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Exit West in Books
Jul 24, 2017
CBorden (67 KP) rated Bright (2017) in Movies
Feb 1, 2018
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Three Daughters of Eve in Books
Sep 17, 2017
She is now a housewife with children, when she vowed never to be such, and she has issues with her religion and questioning her belief after living between a devoutly Muslim mother and a secular father. These issues rise up again when she studies a "God" seminar at Oxford and she is pitted against her atheist Iranian friend, her Muslim housemate and her enigmatic older professor.
It is a remarkably contemporary story, weaving political attributes and current affairs. Intriguing but could have a been a little shorter.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Twitter in Apps
Nov 3, 2017 (Updated Nov 3, 2017)
When I worked in a newsroom, it was my next port of call to speak to eyewitnesses, or find out something from a far off country, so I can't stress enough how important it is for work. We were able to speak to Ukrainian activists on the ground when the conflict began in 2014 thanks to Twitter.
App-wise, it works relatively fine - the new updates can be problematic as I can't copy the writing and some of the alerts do not get pushed through. I now use Twitter Lite as it takes up less memory space on my phone - it's pretty much the same, but it uses Chrome instead.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Our Brand is Crisis (2015) in Movies
Oct 30, 2017 (Updated Oct 30, 2017)
Sandra Bullock plays a brutal and a downright unlikable character but she's all about winning at any cost. In this case, after hiding away for several years following a public scandal, she's hired to back a dwindling presidential candidate in Bolivia. From dirty tricks such as spreading rumours, to even making her candidate appear emotional in a television chat show, she shows how fickle the election system is. All this down to fighting against an opposing campaign manager, played by Billy Bob Thornton, after he sabotaged another of her projects.
However, there's a reason why it hasn't received such great reviews. Right at the end of everything, she seems to gain a conscience which seemed completely uncharacteristic throughout. It changed it from a decently honest portrayal to a Hollywood film which was a real shame. It definitely had potential.