Culture

Movies by Spike Lee, South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong, Italian Matteo Garrone and Nadine Labaki of Lebanon drew critical acclaim

Feminism

Israel wins Eurovision with #MeToo inspired song

Daniel Silva

Refrains such as “I am not your toy, you stupid boy”, summed up the concerns of many women against sexual harassment

Music

Pakistan’s Sufi music fights to be heard after singer’s Killing

AFP

Extremist Muslims cast a pall on spiritual tradition

Omar Khayyam

For World Poetry Day, Verses Straight From Persia’s Heart

contributors

By Salam Aleik | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – How might someone in Tajikistan, the only Persian-speaking republic in the former Soviet Union, describe a beautiful and lively night spent in the company of family and friends? Perhaps he or she would use the word dilafruz, which literally means ‘firing the heart’. Azerbaijani folk art […]

Africa

Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For

contributors

By Ingrid LaFleur | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Before the film was released, the nation of Wakanda was taking shape in our minds. Ingrid LaFleur posted Feb 07, 2018 “When I wondered if imagination could be necessary for the revolution and transformation, you said yes, you said our dreams and visions matter, they […]

Africa

Black Panther: Honoring the legacy of Black style

Juan Cole

by Henry Navarro Delgado | (The Conversation) | – – One knows that something is touching a nerve in North American culture when a foreign luxury car company wants a piece of the pie. The movie Black Panther is that type of archetypical popular culture milestone. The release of Black Panther provides the opportunity to […]

African-Americans

The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models

contributors

At a time of a war on science, scientific role models are more important than ever #blackpanther #marvel

film

Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

contributors

TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. An alt-right group is trying to tank the ratings for “Black Panther” movie on Rotten Tomatoes website as the movie continues to receive glowing reviews from critics after its premier […]

African-Americans

After Golden Globes Speech (Video), Oprah said open to Presidential Run

contributors

Golden Globes/ Oprah Winfrey | (Video Clip) | – – Amy Kaufman of the LA Times wrote that she asked Stedman if Oprah would be open to a presidential bid and he said, “absolutely she would.” I asked Stedman if @oprah would run for President. "It's up to the people. She would absolutely do it." […]