Tag: Divided
How #MeToo Divided NYC’s Chinese Democracy Movement
The Chinese diaspora community is in turmoil over sexual-misconduct lawsuits, involving members of the Tiananmen Square generation and the younger white-paper generation.
People gather at Columbia University during a protest in support of demonstrations held in China calling for an end to Covid-19 lockdowns in New York on November 28, 2022. People have taken to the streets in major cities across China in a wave of protests not seen since pro-democracy rallies in 1989 were crushed.
(Kena Betancur
The Divided Landscape of Indian American Politics
You can tell that an ethnic group is really flourishing in the United States when they start to produce prominent xenophobes and racists, particularly of the anti-Black variety. The trajectory from victim to victimizer is one of the surest markers of upward social mobility. In 1993, Toni Morrison ruefully noted in Time magazine that assimilation means immigrants must join “freely in this most enduring and efficient rite of passage into American culture: negative appraisals of the native-born Black population.” In … Read more
Hisham Matar’s Latest Novel Explores a Divided Soul
St. James’s Square, like many others in London, appears with little forewarning or fanfare. You leave the expensive ruckus of Piccadilly, cut down a narrow side street, and there it suddenly is: a holiday from the city, with a public garden islanded in its center. One gentle corner is home to the London Library, founded in 1841 by the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, who complained that the British Museum Library was giving him “museum headache.”
In the early nineteen-eighties, the
Divided Field Could Hurt Progressives In Chicago Mayoral Race
CHICAGO ― As the Chicago mayoral election approaches, progressives are facing the possibility that a glut of left-leaning candidates makes it more likely that a moderate or conservative contender will hold power at City Hall.
Nine candidates are on the ballot in Tuesday’s citywide, nonpartisan elections: Mayor Lori Lightfoot; Paul Vallas, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools; U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.); Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson (D); businessman Willie Wilson; Illinois state Rep. Kambium “Kam” Buckner (D);
LisaRaye McCoy, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs sprechen über die fünfte und letzte Staffel von „A House Divided“ | EUR Video Exklusiv
*Mit 4 vorangegangenen Saisons bereits auf dem Buckel, “Ein geteiltes Haus“ ist mit seiner fünften und letzten Staffel zurück.
Mit einer herausragenden Besetzung kehrt die Besetzung in der letzten Staffel zu ihren jeweiligen Rollen zurück, die die Fans in den letzten Jahren lieben gelernt haben.
LisaRaye McCoy, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Demetria McKinney, Paula JaiParker und mehr kehren alle in die Emmy-nominierte Serie zurück und wiederholen ihre Rollen, die auf ALLBLK ausgestrahlt wird.
Chris Wares „House Divided“ | Der New Yorker
„Bin ich lächerlich naiv zu glauben, dass wir alle irgendwie erwachsen werden und dieses relativ junge, zweihundertsechsundvierzig Jahre alte Experiment fortsetzen könnten? Ich fange an zu glauben, dass ich es bin“, sagte der Künstler Chris Ware. Sein Cover für die Ausgabe des Magazins vom 4. Juli 2022 fängt die Spaltungen ein, die den Feierlichkeiten zum diesjährigen Unabhängigkeitstag zugrunde liegen. Während vorstädtische Immobilienmakler sich darauf vorbereiten, die Rasenflächen der Nation mit Miniaturflaggen zu belegen, sind Millionen von Amerikanern gefesselt von den
In a Divided Country, Communal Living Redefines Togetherness
Kate Green was in bed one night when she heard somebody trying to break into her home. This was 2017. Her apartment, in the Hollywood Hills, was a well-appointed studio. Green heard footsteps, and saw a stranger peering through the full-length glass by her front door. For a moment, she was paralyzed; then she dove for cover in her closet. By the time the police arrived, the unknown intruder had disappeared.
Green, who is in her mid-thirties, was the right