Assistant Editor LaMont Jackson’s candid interviews with selected Hunter College senior citizen students about their opinions and decisions about the 2024 presidential elections and the happenings in the political scenery of New York and New York City.
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THE BIBI FILES Film Review – One of the Best (If Not the Best ) Documentary Films of 2024
Damn the Pandemic, Full Speed Ahead Film Review
THE MEANING OF HITLER – An Inquiry into Decades of Cultural Fascination with the Nazi Leader and the Ramifications of Such a Fascination on Present Day Politics
THE MEANING OF HITLER’s bravura cinematography and deft use of visuals – such as animation, graphics, vintage news reels, Hollywood and foreign movie footage, social media visuals – as well as interviews with historians and writers speaking with a believe-it-or-not-if-you-dare tempo about a truth, a whole truth and nothing but that truth – resulted in a sweeping panoramic documentary with prophetic and apocalyptic tones about the Who, What, Where, When, Why & How of the never-ending macabre fascination with Hitler.
By Gregg W. Morris
The Human Rights Watch 30th Anniversary Film Festival Presents Brave Cinematic Works that Challenge the Rise of Authoritarianism and Oppression, June 13-20
As racism and xenophobia continue to rise within the highest echelons of power, this year’s festival presents cinematic works that expose and humanize cases of legalized and legitimized oppression of the disenfranchised that demand the world’s attention.
Civil Rights and Census Advocates Highlight Need to Keep the Citizenship Question Off the 2020 Census
“The 2020 Census is our only chance in a decade for a fair and accurate count of our communities. Census data are used in countless ways to ensure that our families and communities have the resources and services that they need.”
Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s Orwellian Attack on the Press
The latest attention-getting attack is truly ominous.
New America Media Op Ed: We Must Stop the Assault on Our Fundamental Values
That this most ahistorical of presidents chose to issue his order on Holocaust Remembrance Day makes it all the more tragic and ominous.
$1,000,000 Fund to Help Dreamers Renew DACA by October 5
The Mission Asset Fund has announced that it will provide $1,000,000 in scholarships to 2,000+ Dreamers to pay for DACA renewals by the October 5 deadline.
What Student Leaders and Students Say About Trump’s Executive Order Revoking Transgender Students Rights to Use the Bathrooms of Their Choice
Article by Carlos Diaz
On February 22, 2017, a Wednesday night, Donald Trump revoked the Obama executive order that allowed transgender students at public schools to use the bathroom based on their preferred gender identityUndergraduate Student Government President Matthew LoCastro was contacted about this hostile action. The interview was conducted by email and in Q&A style.
Oh My God, What Just Happened
Article by Nida Ali
Donald Trump’s election has instilled fear in many Muslims who believe that his victory reflects the rise of Islamophobia in America.