Month: January 2025

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”― Lyndon B. Johnson When President Lyndon B. Johnson made this comment in the 1960s, he could have been gazing
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The 2025 lineup for California’s Just Like Heaven music festival has been announced. Vampire Weekend will headline, sharing the bill with TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and, most notably, a reunion of Jenny Lewis’ beloved emo band Rilo Kiley, who haven’t played a show together since 2008. The one-day festival
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Image via A24 I don’t remember exactly how old I am in this moment, but I’m definitely younger than 10. I’m attending Vacation Bible School, a weeklong summer day camp that unfolds in various iterations in churches all over the country. I’m constantly sweaty from running around and playing, but I don’t care. It’s the
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Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Wanted!” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed
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This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and “female” by fiat. The order, with the cumbersome title “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to
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Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is the director of two new documentaries, Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) and Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, and they both have newly released trailers. Watch the videos below. Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary premiered yesterday (January 23) at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The film, about
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Eileen, Iranian writer/director Alireza Khatami would like a word. Drowning under the excess of religious hegemony and patriarchal excess, Khatami’s nightmarish, disorienting The Things You Kill is as much about killing off the parts of ourselves as it is about the persons in our lives who exist solely as living, breathing reminders of society’s perennial
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Each year since its inception, the program has honored three books—one fiction, one nonfiction, and one poetry title—that deepen our understanding of science and technology. The books’ authors are awarded $10,000 each, celebrated at a ceremony in March, and featured in national public programming. To qualify, books must have been published in English by US
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EXCLUSIVE: The Center for Asian American Media announced at Sundance the inaugural cohort of 15 Building Bridges documentarians, whose films will receive support as part of the Building Bridges Documentary Fund. The fund is made possible with a $4.5 million grant from the Doris Duke Foundation. The initiative invests in storytelling about Muslims in the United States with
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The first large-scale study on the experiences of autistic transgender people finds that they are more likely to have long-term mental and physical health conditions, including alarmingly high rates of self-harm, data from the Autism Research Center at Cambridge University shows. Researchers found that these individuals also report experiencing lower quality health care than both autistic
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories that TIB readers were most interested in this week. It was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires. I was just
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EXCLUSIVE: Never underestimate the power of independent art. Kahlil Joseph’s experimental movie BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions will definitely be making its world premiere here at Sundance. The festival just released a statement. The movie was pulled by the pic’s financially embattled financier Participant after accusing the filmmaker that he was submitting a secret cut of
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