My guest this week is Sol Thea Kelley-Jones, a playwright, director, and human rights activist whose recent play is about the similarities between the West Bank and the U.S.-Mexico border.
Like others before it, this was a voyeuristic look at the Third World’s poor and vulnerable. There was no sense of history, no glimpse of peoples’ struggles and really no dignity.read more
The Progies are the “un-Oscars” annually awarded by the James Agee Cinema Circle – an international group of left movie critics and historians -- for the Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers of conscience and consciousness. The envelopes please.read more
My guest this week is Bill V. Mullen, the author of "Afro-Orientalism" and "Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics." We talk about Obama's political background and his prospects.
The PROGIE NOMINEES ARE
For best picture: "Milk," "Che," "Battle in Seattle," "The Visitor," "Waltz with Bashir," and "Wendy and Lucy." For best actor...read more
Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter whose absurdist and realistic works displayed a despair and defiance about the human condition, has died. Here's one of the most illuminating and political interviews he ever gave.read more