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Best Films and More About Work, for Labor Day

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Way Down in the Hole, Stanley Nelson, Wasteland, Made in Dagenham, Locked Out, A Better Life, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Giamatti, Ben Affleck, Miranda Richardson, Brazil, Even the Rain, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Hbo, Too Big to Fail, Ilwu, Wyatt Closs, Summit Entertainment, Kevin Costner, Freedom Riders, Colorado Coalfied War, Sally Hawkins, The Company Men, Chris Weitz, William Hurt, Miners, Curtis Hanson, Eric Eason, Freedom Rides, Demian Bichir, Popwork, Entertainment News
Wyatt Closs

This Labor Day week, we take a look at a listing of nominees for best films, tv shows, and other artistic expressions in what are called the "2011 Workers' Voice Awards" from PopWork USA.

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In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Freedom Riders

Black Voices | Trymaine Lee | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Pbs, Stanley Nelson, Civil Rights Movement, Congress on Racial Equality, Freedom Riders Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, African Americans, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Politics News

Yesterday morning, as I stood across from where it all began at 1100 New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., and watched as the college kids linked arms ...

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Filmmaker Captures History, Emotion Of Freedom Riders

| Erin Chan Ding | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Civil Rights, Chicago Culture, Freedom Riders, Racism, Best of Chicago, Freedom Riders Film, Chicago Around Town, Stanley Nelson, Chicago News

Fifty years ago this May, a group of young blacks and whites in Washington D.C. boarded a bus to test a Supreme Court decision that segregation on int...

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Small Town Reporter Exposes Killers In Civil Rights Era Case

latimes.com | James Rainey | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Frank Morris Murder Case, Concordia Sentinel 1964 Murder, Stanley Nelson Frank Morris, Stanley Nelson, Ferriday, Media News

The Mississippi fairly glides through this old cotton country, nothing if not strong and serene. But look a little closer at the big river and you'll ...

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Nashville: Not Just Flooded with Water; But Civil Rights Memories

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Freedom Rides, John Lewis, John Kennedy, Nashville Flood, Confederacy, c.t. Vivian, Recovery, Civil Rights, James Lawson, Healing, Tea Party, Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, Stanley Nelson, Bull Connor, Healthy Living News
Molly Secours

This week as Nashville struggles to deal with ferocious floods -- that so far have taken 10 lives -- I am am reminded of the markers of time which are currently submerged in water.

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Favorites from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

Roya Rastegar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Freebie, High Art, John Cooper, Freedom Riders, Tilda Swinton, Cherrie Curry, To Catch a Dollar, Park City, Tanya Hamilton, Floria Sigismondi, Adrian Grenier, Dakota Fanning, BILAL?S STAND, Detroit, Stanley Nelson, Luca Guardagnino, The KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, Jimmy Chi, Microlending, The Runaways, The TAQWACORES, Joan Jett, Los Angeles, A SMALL ACT, 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Greyhound, Mark Ruffalo, Eyad Zahra, Sam Green, Teenage Paparazzo, IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE, Kenya, BRAN NUE DAE, Julianne Moore, Katie Aselton, Samuel L. Jackson, Happythankyoumoreplease, Punk, Civil Rights, Anthony Mackey, I AM LOVE, Jennifer Arnold, New Frontier, Godard, Diane Bell, Kerry Washington, Kirsten Stewart, NIGHT CATCHES US, Naomi Watts, Jimmy Smits, Philadelphia, Islam, Sultan Shariff, UTOPIA in FOUR MOVEMENTS, Rachel Perkin, MOTHER and CHILD, Lisa Cholodenko, Rodrigo Garcia, Annette Bening, Dave Cerf, Documentary, Obseledia, Muhammad Yunus, Zeina-Durra, Sloan, Entertainment News
Roya Rastegar

Utopia was not only moving but a reminder that there's power conjured through the experience of collectively watching cinema. For this reason, it aptly captures the spirit of rebellion that Sundance 2010 was all about.

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