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Documentary Review: The Long Struggle to “Free Leonard Peltier”
“Free Leonard Peltier” is about the half-century-long struggle to get Native American activist Leonard Peltier out of prison. Peltier, accused of murdering two F.B.I. agents during the Federal government’s intervention in a Native “civil war” at the Pine Ridge Indian … Continue reading
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Tagged aim, books, fbi-misconduct, history, native-american-rights, racism, writing
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Movie Review: Black Teen faces the trials of being a “Mississippi Scholar”
Earnest, preachy and melodramatic to a fault, “Mississippi Scholar” is exactly the sort of movie that the independent cinema was born to create. Director and co-writer Marcus Bleecker’s film may traffic in tropes and cliches. But it has a vivid … Continue reading
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Tagged civil-rights-drama, deep-south, film, mississippi, movies, ole-miss, racism, Reviews
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