by Jesse Hagopian | Mar 13, 2026 | Academy Awards, culture, film, history, Media, music, Op-Ed, Oscars, Racial Justice, Slavery
Warning: This article contains spoilers. Near the end of Sinners, there is a moment that Hollywood rarely permits. The character Smoke guns down a gang of Ku Klux Klan members who have come to murder his people — and then, with hands still trembling, he cradles his newborn child in his arms. Watching it, something strange and powerful stirred within me — as if the film were bending time…
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by Amy Goodman | Jan 10, 2026 | Gaza, Hind Rajab, Interview, Israel, Oscars, Palestine
Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies of her cousins, aunt and uncle, who had just been killed by Israeli forces as the family attempted to flee the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City. Emergency responders with the Palestine Red…
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