The things we do to women. For centuries, at least within Western societies, women are considered pillars of their communities while also being second-class (or lesser) citizens. Their rights to vote, to own property, to be more than their father’s… Read More ›
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid In the late 1800s, when silver was found by Nicholas C. Creede in the mountains of Southwest Colorado, the rush of people led to the boomtown known… Read More ›
“I reject your reality and I substitute my own!” – From the film The Dungeonmaster (1984) and *not* Adam Savage There’s a fairly popular video and text meme which starts with a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind… Read More ›
E Pluribus Unum. This brief Latin phrase meaning “one from many” was first added to United States coins in 1795. It’s a motto that speaks to all citizens of the United States of America, even in an era when those… Read More ›
In the ‘80s, there was a trend of films that built up their own cliché — the rag tag group of kids going up against the big city conglomerate, usually to save a community center. Do keep in mind that,… Read More ›
In this episode of Meet Me at the Movies: Open Dialogue, Thomas Manning speaks with documentarian PJ Raval about his new film Who We Become, distributed by Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing. Raval talks about the catharsis he finds in filmmaking… Read More ›
In March of 2020, for American citizens, everything changed. Though epidemiologists had been ringing the alarm for a while, a deadly strain of coronavirus, designated COVID-19 for its appearance in 2019, had moved from overseas countries into the United States… Read More ›
There’s a strange hypocrisy to the American Dream. Citizens of the United States of America have called their country the greatest in the world, touting its various freedoms (perceived or law-based), all while going to other countries to spread their… Read More ›
As a Communications Major at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (Go Bulldogs!), there were two specific newscasters that came up in conversation: Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Coincidentally, both were born roughly a decade apart, worked for… Read More ›
The stories we tell ourselves shape how we view the world. Sometimes the narrating voice is our own, unable to pull us up out of a self-defeating dive; other times, the voice is someone else’s, taking advantage of our vulnerability… Read More ›
One of the founding principles in the United States is the separation of Church and State. This concept is intended to ensure that the laws of the land are written without any one specific faith guiding how the country functions…. Read More ›
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government… Read More ›
In 2015, the New Orleans City Council passed a proposal by then-mayor Mitch Landrieu to remove five monuments around the city dedicated to Confederate soldiers. It took several years for these five to be removed due to legal action attempting… Read More ›
Director James Fletcher seeks to capture a balanced view of how a reality show host and celebrity could rise to the office of the President of the United States in the documentary The Accidental President. Here, Fletcher and former White… Read More ›
Documentaries are tricky to make, but they’re also a bit more challenging to review than your standard and more conventional type of movie. That’s due to the fact that you really don’t have characters, performances, or anything else to really… Read More ›
Serving as an official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama, Pete Souza has been an invisible presence on the front lines of American history. Souza has a unique perspective and intimate understanding of the authentic… Read More ›