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‘Watchmen’: An unblinking look at racism through the eyes of lead Black characters

PV January 22, 2020

Michael Berkowitz HBO’s Watchmen is a stunning achievement for television. It is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book...

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Culture

Music Notes: Chilean anthem calls out femicide

PV January 12, 2020

A flash mob performance piece written by a feminist collective in the Chilean city of Valparaíso has been taken up by women worldwide as a battle cry for justice. “Un violador en tu camino”...

6 Minutes

Culture

Two murals, two breaths of new hope

PV January 12, 2020

By Victor Grossman No one on Berlin’s main eastbound traffic artery could miss one of the two murals, five stories high, 2745 square feet in area, in shiny bright, red, green, yellow and blue...

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Music Notes: Nueva Cancion still nurturing the progressive struggle

PV December 23, 2019

Allende era’s music inspires Chileans The struggle that culminated in the election of Salvador Allende’s socialist Popular Unity government in Chile in 1970 was nurtured by a profound musical revolution. While Latin America’s Nueva...