Word: racial
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...year the BAF attempts to provide a cross-section.”This year, the cross-section will include a production of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a BlackCAST production, which explores “intra-racial experiences and inter-racial relations within the music industry,” according to Julie Ann Crommett ’08, a member both of Kuumba and the BAF board. The play, a meditation on artistic ownership, takes place in 1927 in a blues recording studio during the course...
...Best Director, or Best Adapted Screenplay. The Academy has snubbed Spielberg before—notably in 1985 for his similarly controversial film “The Color Purple.” I think “Crash” will be rewarded instead; it is an uplifting film about racial reconciliation that is likely to inspire easy consensus...
...grossed anywhere near $100 million), forecasters are asking themselves: Do Oscar voters want the gay movie or the race movie? For if there are two front runners, they are Brokeback Mountain, the sad love story of two cowpokes (and the women they ignore), and Crash, a drama about racial, social and sexual tensions that is as sprawling and congested as a big-city freeway system...
...promising new housing formula comes just in time for the beleaguered Nagin, who faces a tough election set for April 22. Last week Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, brother of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, announced his candidacy. Although Mitch Landrieu is white and Nagin is black, the racial politics of the mayoral contest, which includes seven other white candidates and one other African American, are not clear cut. Nagin came to office four years ago with strong support from the white business community--maybe too strong, in the eyes of lower-income black voters. Landrieu's father Moon...
This is a tough year for Academy Award swamis. No epics. No blockbusters. A Best Picture fight between the gay movie Brokeback Mountain and the racial movie Crash. Talk about obscure--it's less like the Oscars, more like the Obies. So how to win the office pool? Trust your gut, but feel free to follow some of these tips...