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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard
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Logan works as a writer, producer, and consultant for print, television, film and radio and often publishes on topics related to culture, arts and faith.

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Logan is a media professional with a broad depth of experience in television, radio, print/online, and film. A broadcast news producer at Current TV, her career started out in news, at ABC television network, followed by Air America Radio, where she was an executive producer and managed show production for Rachel Maddow, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Janeane Garofalo, Ron Reagan, Steve Earle, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., among others. Find her writing in many places, including: ABC News, The Guardian, The Women Film Critics Circle, AOL's Stylelist, Moviefone and The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging.

A gallery based in Berlin sells some of her images and her artwork has been published online and in print. She has done two groups shows in New York City. She values finding ways to communicate messages of joy in mainstream media and often publishes on topics related to culture, arts, and faith. findcreatejoy.com is her personal art blog.

Blog Entries by Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Why Are U.S. Gun Owners Beholden to America's Cities?

(32) Comments | Posted February 13, 2013 | 12:50 PM

Guns and inner cities are like lost relatives, each linked by blood, each unknown to the other.

Clearly, as Tom Diaz writes in his forthcoming book, The Last Gun: "Gun violence is not just an issue for gun violence prevention activists. Gun violence affects virtually every community socioeconomic, racial,...

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Is the Drug War a Failure?

(27) Comments | Posted October 22, 2012 | 5:26 PM

I was reminded of Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In while driving home recently -- a cop car pulls up alongside a trio of white teens on foot. It stops to eye the kids suspiciously. The boys look back, then saunter along, carefree. From firsthand experience, I know young...

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Is Global Warming Inevitable? A Case Study

(9) Comments | Posted August 19, 2012 | 2:26 PM

2012-08-17-loganpollardacorncrop.jpg"We are into our 11th day of temps near or over 100 with another week to go," Bill Patzert just reminded me.

He's a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and an expert on climate forecasting, and like me he's up working...

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Why Is August Wilson's Work Relevant Now?

(0) Comments | Posted July 2, 2012 | 5:59 PM

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Charlie Robinson and Larry Bates in August Wilson's "Jitney" at The Pasadena Playhouse. Photo: Henry DiRocco.

There's no better time for a work like Jitney, now playing at The Pasadena Playhouse. It's August Wilson's first play, a fact that made director Ron...

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June Gloom or June Glow?

(6) Comments | Posted June 19, 2012 | 2:33 PM

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Don't be so glum. June Gloom has some unexpected benefits.

You know what time of year it is. The beautiful purplish blue jacarandas are blooming and June Gloom is in full effect.

Or not.

According to...

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How Do You Take Back Your Life?

(3) Comments | Posted June 3, 2012 | 8:15 AM

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Last weekend Wendy Ida emailed me that she was going to an event. It being a holiday and all, I was thinking this involved the beach, a show, or maybe a somber get-together for Memorial Day. But no -- Ida was gearing...

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Identi-lifting? -- Talking About Veterans' Courts Memorial Day Weekend

(0) Comments | Posted May 25, 2012 | 5:41 PM

2012-05-24-loganpollardperspective.jpg When Larry, my uncle through marriage, came back to New York City from Vietnam, everyone knew he wasn't quite right but was unprepared to help him.

His life post war took a downward turn that he never recovered from. Loitering, bouncing between...

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Progress by Marathon?

(0) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 4:36 PM

Pasadena, CA, - Approximately 7,000 men, women and children will gather to run, walk and bike the 4th annual Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon and its related events on Sunday, May 20th.

For some, marathon running has become a rite of passage -- a kind of evolution of the...

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Where Do Babies Comes From? Reviewing Ina May Gaskin's Birth Matters

(0) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 12:40 PM

2012-05-12-birth2.gifIna May Gaskin has been delivering babies for nearly 40 years and her latest book, Birth Matters, A Midwife's Manifesta (Seven Stories) shows you how. Not that you wanted to know. Or maybe like me, you do want to know. Finally, after...

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Antidote to Cynicism? Analyzing The Hunger Games

(9) Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 2:18 PM

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The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, made some $155 million opening weekend, and if you're among the few who haven't seen it yet, stop reading here.

This is one of those old school essays I used to write, not as a critic,...

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Who's Better, Man Or Woman?

(2) Comments | Posted January 25, 2012 | 3:01 PM

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By some reports Steven Soderbergh, may stop making films. I hope not. And I look forward to a time when moviemakers have the courage to make and promote films like Haywire, even if they "under-perform," as Haywire did

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Is It Too Late to Make an Advent Wreath?

(5) Comments | Posted December 19, 2011 | 2:44 PM

The Christmas season can be a lot of fun, buying and getting gifts, going to parties, being with friends and family, but it also has a profound spiritual component. And when people talk about "the holidays," there is often a kind of edge to that phrase, perhaps because this season...

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What Is a Warrior?

(0) Comments | Posted September 13, 2011 | 12:38 PM

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Warrior, the new film from Gavin O'Connor, couldn't be more fitting for the times we live in.

It asks, how do you forgive when you really have been wronged? How do you proceed when no one believes in you? How do you...

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Can Everything That's Broken Be Mended?

(13) Comments | Posted August 11, 2011 | 7:01 PM

Not exactly what I expected to be writing about Yoav Potash's spare documentary, CRIME AFTER CRIME. I was all geared up, in fact, to comment on dysfunctions endemic to many black communities, given that the film's about a black woman unjustly incarcerated for life.

Something else happened, however, that...

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Are You Surprised By Movies Anymore?

(7) Comments | Posted May 5, 2011 | 7:00 PM

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Werner Herzog is one filmmaker who defies the trailer, the reviewer and whatever formula you want to put on him. When I walk into a Herzog movie I never know what's going to happen. And when I walk out of one, I often...

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When People Are Rude ... What Would Jesus Do?

(41) Comments | Posted April 27, 2011 | 11:02 AM

Are you really trying this with me?

It's a strange thing when someone lies to your face and you both know it.

I left the house Good Friday eve feeling pretty good. I love the Easter holiday season. Ever since I was a kid I was captured by this...

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SUCKER PUNCH: "Am I the Only One Who Liked This Film?"

(38) Comments | Posted March 29, 2011 | 1:23 AM

"Am I the only one who liked this film?" a middle-aged woman's saying, talking to two other people. We've all just come out of SUCKER PUNCH, which just opened in theaters. When your number's in the 30's on Metacritic, I think it's pretty safe to say that she...

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Sidewalks

(0) Comments | Posted November 30, 2010 | 10:47 AM

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Singer

(0) Comments | Posted November 16, 2010 | 11:10 AM

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See the rest of this series this week here.

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Bird

(0) Comments | Posted November 9, 2010 | 6:31 PM

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