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...prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed no other defects, this artificial association of nobility with lightness and villainy with blackness would be enough to ruin...
Other member nations include Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Libya. Saudi Arabia’s notorious repression of women is clearly disgraceful, while the Congo is known primarily as an epicenter of genocide and ethnic cleansing. And it was, of course, Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s henchmen who blew up a West Berlin discotheque in 1986 and were also implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people...
...bring a number of these musicians together for a single tour. From that tour, they produced the new album, Live at the Quick. The album unites the deft musicianship of Fleck and his Flecktones with the unique talents of artists like saxophonist Paul McCandless, bassoonist Paul Hanson and Congo ol’Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer capable of simultaneously singing different pitches. Combined with Fleck’s electric banjos and Future Man’s drumitar, the collection of musicians produce unique instrumentations and texures which are unlikely to be repeated again...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Show You're Sorry The government dismissed Belgium's apology for its role in the 1961 killing of Patrice Lumumba, postcolonial Congo's first Prime Minister, but demanded reparations. A Belgian parliamentary report found that the former colonial rulers bore "moral responsibility" for the assassination...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...