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...street corner in Kogelo hosts a political debate. It usually starts with a discussion of Kenya's crisis before moving on quickly to the chances of a Luo son moving into the White House. Maurice Kogode is the chairman of the grandly named Central Square Consultation Forum, which meets beneath a vast jacaranda tree. He says Obama's message of hope and change designed for voters in America also offers inspiration to young Kenyans. "Too many politicians here have an egocentric mind and they just won't give in," says Kogode. "They protect their own interests, not the majority...
...outside of the hearing in protest, condemning what they felt was the FCC’s discrimination against minority media ownership. Members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, the Boston branch of the NAACP, and the National Black Chamber of Commerce held a press conference outside the building, beneath a bright yellow banner reading “Stop the FCC’s War on Diversity.” “We’re deeply concerned about any policy that can decrease minority involvement in the media,” said Kelley D. Coleman, president...
...whole point of the Academy Awards is to celebrate and commend the best of the best in filmmaking. We might take the ungodly glitz and glamour associated with the awards ceremony today as an indication that this function has largely been forgotten—or at least hidden beneath a superficial veneer. Though I was rooting for the strike to be resolved in time for the show to go on, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps the Academy would call a time-out on the more ostentatious aspects of Hollywood’s biggest celebration...
...clearly still untrained and that’s honest enough to point to an understanding of the universality of melodrama. In many ways, it seems obvious that Darnielle knows what makes his albums work: a hybrid of the mundane and the openly emotive. No matter the accompaniment, something beneath the sonic exterior of “Heretic Pride” clearly understands emotions in a highly personal way and knows how to convey them beautifully to the listener...
...battle of Obama vs. Clinton were being told by a Hollywood filmmaker instead of by the muse of history, the opening scene would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic...