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Trayvon Martin and the Myth of Black Inferiority

Ronnie Reese | Posted 04.28.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Just Say No, Stand Your Ground, George Zimmerman, Ku Klux Klan, Trayvon Martin, Racism, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, James Chaney, Naacp, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Black Voices News
Ronnie Reese

As Trayvon Martin's death comes back into the national consciousness, we should be mindful of the devastating potential of centuries of brainwashing, especially when combined with gun violence.

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Quentin Tarantino Blasts Famed Director: 'To Say The Least, I Hate Him'

Posted 12.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: John Ford Director, Video, Quentin Tarantino, Klu Klux Klan, John Ford Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation, The Birth of a Nation, John Ford, Quentin Tarantino John Ford, Entertainment News

Quentin Tarantino has no love lost for John Ford. "One of my American Western heroes is not John Ford, obviously," Tarantino, who directed the Spaghet...

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Re-Birth of a Nation?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.25.2012 | Politics
Read More: The Artist, Dwight Eisenhower, Academy Awards, Texas Board of Education, Thaddeus Stevens, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Birth of a Nation provides the key to explaining both the rise of the Tea Party and the totally irrational hatred that a substantial fraction of Americans holds for President Obama.

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On The Artist, The Lure of Nostalgia, and Ten Silent Movies Worth Talking Up

John Farr | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Metropolis, The Academy Awards, King Kong, The Artist, Margin Call, Battleship Potemkin, Martin Scorsese, The New York Times, G.W. Pabst, Best Movies on DVD, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Silent Film, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Silent Movie, Hugo, Thirteen/WNET, Louise Brooks, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, A.O. Scott, City Lights, Fritz Lang, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Just when you start believing there's no hope for anything daring and original coming out of Movieland, something gets released that surprises you. The Artist is one such movie -- and what's new about it is that it's old.

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The Director's Guild of America Honors Alice Guy-Blache

Gerit Quealy | Posted 12.13.2011 | Women
Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Gene Stavis, Fist Woman Director, Anthony Slide, Cecil B. De Mille, Steven Spielberg, Slidepollajax, D.W. Griffith, Alice Guy-Blaché, Eadweard Muybridge, New Jersey Hall of Fame, First Movie Studio, Women News
Gerit Quealy

Pop quiz: Who was at the beginning of the film industry? D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Alice Guy Blache immediately spring to mind, right? Yes! Wait, what? Who?

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The Agenda: Food Trucks, Film Previews, And Stuff White People Like

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Whiter Shades of Pale, Lardon Truck, Sprint 4g, Cyber Monday, Natalie Portman, LA Events, Louks Greek Gourmet, Dan Dan Bbq, DW Griffith, Mila Kunis, Slidepollajax, Ampas, Nom Nom Truck, Christian Lander, Black Swan, Stuff White People Like, Los Angeles News

Fuel up with free food truck fare in honor of Sprint's 4G launch, sit in on an author's signing with Christian Lander (of Stuff White People Like fame...

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HuffPost Premiere: Dead Confederate's "Run From The Gun," Plus Conversations With Tegan & Sara and Hayley Taylor, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Ted Gowens, Brantley Senn, Broken Social Scene, Privileged, The OC, Ryan Adams, Caribou, Ben Wigler, Angela Kendall, Owen Pallet, Afi, J Mascis, John Agnello, Neil Young, Hunter Burgan, Noah & Dylan Chenfeld, The Whigs, Royal Pains, Weezer, Chris Wallace, Nuts, Dar Williams, The Twilight Zone, Polaris Music Prize, The Oasis, The Hold Steady, Kaki King, Hardy Morris, Brittany Murphy, Aimee Mann, Ingrid Michaelson, Paramore, Hayley Taylor, Bob Dylan, DW Griffith, Radiohead, Tegan & Sara, How I Met Your Mother, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Haley Taylor, Jason McClure, 7th Heaven, Death Cab for Cutie, Margaret Cho, An Horse, Dan Romer, Felicity, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Scott Carney, New Found Glory, Dead Confederate, Kadawatha, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Did the Inglorious N.O.P. Bust a Cap in Health Care Reform?

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, G.O.P., Eisenhower Era, Civil Rights, Evangelicals, Chuck Grassley, Hate Mongering, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Hypocrisy, Hate Speech, Medicare, Republican Party, Caribou Barbie, Right-Wing-Echo-Chamber, Big Tent, Senator Charles Grassley, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley Death Panels, D.W. Griffith, Democrats, Barack Obama, Equal Rights Amendment, The-Birth-of-a-Nation, Soviet Russia, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Iraq War, Glenn Beck, Bush Cheney, Grand Old Party, Barry Goldwater, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Ghw-Bush, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.

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The Best Train Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Walker, Preston Sturges, Albert Finney, Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Claudette Colbert, Julie Delpy, Travel, D.W. Griffith, Ethan Hawke, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield Died, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Joel Mcrea, Hungarian Film, Ingrid Bergman, Trevor Howard, Trains, British Film, Best Sidney Lumet Movies, Glenn Ford, Sean Connery Book, Entertainment News
John Farr

In a host of movies, the train has served as a microcosm of modern society, and the individual's potential risk and conflict within it.

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Who is the Real Sarah Palin?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Acorn, John McCain, Alaska Governor Ethics Scandal, Presidential Campaign, John Lewis, Troopergate, Racism, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Is Sarah Palin the evangelical, do-gooder "hockey mom"? Or is she a "She-Bush" megalomaniac who wields power behind the scenes by personal whim? And lies about it?

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