As viewers have come to expect from co-creator Michael Schur,
Rutherford Falls uses sly humor and flawed, lovable characters to tackle serious issues.
Rutherford Falls
Peacock
2021- (US)
The Library of Congress holds one collection with an odd assortment of items that one might evaluate as junk. A button. A pocket knife. A handkerchief. A few newspaper clippings. But the pocket knife is made of silver and ivory, the button bears the initial “L”, and the handkerchief is embroidered with “A. Lincoln”.
These were among the items found in the pockets of Abraham Lincoln on the night he died. Archivists, museum curators, and family historians know that provenance an object’s origin and/or chain of ownership can make even the most ordinary item an important historical artifact.
Black And Native Writers Dissect How They Represent One Another In Television Because of the erasure that we ve experienced in media and the way we tell history, we don t see each other in each other s stories,” says writerAzie Dungey, a Black Native woman of Pamunkey descent.
Who gets to tell the story is critical to making diversity and inclusion the norm in Hollywood. In recognition of that, the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) presented an enlightening panel titled “The Story of US: Decolonizing Black and Native/Indigenous Narratives,” co-hosted by the Committee of Black Writers (CBW) and the Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee (NAIWC). Lynne D’Angelo, a Native Haudenosaunee writer who has written for several shows, including
The first Native American Cabinet member said she could also recommend some reading to the former senator.
ByKavish Harjai
Published on 5/5/2021 at 1:43 PM
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks during a White House press briefing on April 23, 2021. | Getty Images
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks during a White House press briefing on April 23, 2021. | Getty Images
Deb Haaland, U.S. Interior Secretary, said Tuesday that she has some reading recommendations for former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum that might help him understand American history.
HuffPost senior political reporter Jennifer Bendery asked Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet member, to respond to Santorum’s recent historically inaccurate comments about the formation of the United States. Santorum told a conservative youth group in April that European colonizers “birthed a nation from nothing,” and that even though Native Americans already inhabited the land,“there isn�