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Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley
“Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?” This was the topic on February 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement,…
Far From the Nile
Far From the Nile is a new documentary by Egyptian American filmmaker Sherief Elkatsha. Elkatsha follows 12 African musicians from seven countries along the Nile River as they band together in an international coalition to fuse musical styles, rhythms, and languages in an attempt to highlight the…