18 March, 2017

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Amadou & Mariam: Sou Ni Tile J. D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

“It all basically comes down to do you want to fuck them or not.”
–A close Hollywood friend/producer, who’s a very good guy

11 March, 2017

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Endemol UK, Charlie Brooker: Black Mirror Season 4 Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
–A. Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist.

11 February, 2017

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HBO, Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore: Insecure Michael D. Coogan, Pheme Perkins, Carol A. Newsom and Marc Zvi Brettler: The New Oxford Annotated Bible

“If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hard-working white middle class and undeserving minorities then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.”
–President Obama

5 February, 2017

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BBC, Written By Peter Berry, Directed By Iain B. MacDonald: The Last Enemy Zakes Mda: The Heart of Redness

“History cannot be deleted like web pages.”
–Angela Davis at the Women’s March in D.C.

28 January, 2017

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NBC, Dan Fogelman, Kay Oyegun, Donald Todd, Aurin Squire: This is Us Patrick Hamilton: Gaslight

“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
–Donald Trump, at his inauguration