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Roll Call · Oct 20, 2022

'Philly on Fire,' 'Bella!' tie for Library of Congress prize

Documentaries about feminist leader and politician Bella Abzug and a deadly 1985 Philadelphia police bombing are the winners of this year’s Library of Congress film prize

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2022

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

Salon · Sep 18, 2022

Ken Burns’ new documentary reveals painful truths about ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

DALLAS — Eva Schloss is no stranger to Dallas. As a Holocaust survivor willing to share her harrowing life story, she appeared in Richardson as recently as three years ago. In 2002, she flew in from London to see a play about her life, "And Then They Came for Me,"…

Tribune News Service · Sep 16, 2022

Tucker Carlson backs DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard migrant planes: ‘It doesn’t look that bad’

On Thursday, the filmmaker Burns had said DeSantis’ actions were coming straight from the ‘authoritarian playbook’ and was treating human lives as ‘political pawns’

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022

How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.

Reason · Sep 15, 2022

What we're watching: 'Atlanta' opens its final season with even stranger things

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Tribune News Service · Sep 14, 2022

TV Tinsel: Marlyne Barrett never thought she'd be a nurse, but that was before 'Chicago Med'

Actress Marlyne Barrett, who plays the charge nurse on “Chicago Med,” violates the old joke about not being a doctor but playing one on TV.

Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022

‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university

Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2022