Breaking News

Us

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ shatters records with $70.3M
News (Entertainment)

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ shatters records with $70.3M

Sentinel News WireMarch 25, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Jordan Peele has done it again. Two years after the filmmaker’s “Get Out” became a box-office sensation, his frightening follow-up, “Us,” debuted with $70.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The opening, well above forecasts, had few parallels. It was the largest debut for an original horror film (only the “It” remake and last year’s “Halloween” have surpassed it in the genre) and one of the highest openings for a live-action original film since “Avatar” was released 10 years ago. In today’s franchise-driven movie world, seldom has a young director been such a

Us, The Movement and Memory: In the Winds and Scales of History
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Us, The Movement and Memory: In the Winds and Scales of History

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 6, 2018

But if there is any legacy or uplifting lessons left by the 60s, it is that we must resist these new forms of unfreedom and falsification of history and continue to wage struggles of liberation on every level of life. For these struggles are clearly the indispensable way we understand, free and fulfill ourselves and the aspirations of our ancestors.  Indeed, these are struggles demanded by our inherent right to freedom, our natural need for justice and our irrepressible longing for a liberated life. And it is a struggle for and longed for life that yields ordinary and special spaces in which the human spirit is nurtured and constantly renewed, and we and other human beings know ourselves as sacred and at the center and subject of every day and hour of history we make.

African Union to Hold Summit in ‘Slavery Hub’
InternationalNewsPolitical

African Union to Hold Summit in ‘Slavery Hub’

Global Information NetworkJune 21, 2018

According to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, Mauritania has one of the highest rates of slavery in the world, with an estimated 43,000 living in modern slavery conditions, out of a population of 4 million. The practice especially affects the Haratins, who have been caught in a cycle of servitude enforced by the Moors, the lighter-skinned descendants of Arab Berbers.