It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the nineteenth century - it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain s attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Perhaps most important, this is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new la
Paramount+ Announces The Game Reboot With Original Cast
Hosea Chanchez and Wendy Raquel Robinson are confirmed to play their original roles.
Time to turn The Game on – and we don’t mean Sunday football. Paramount+ has given a ten-episode series order for the reboot of The CW and BET’s series
The Game. The series originally created by Mara Brock Akil, creator of BET’s
Being Mary Jane and UPN’s
Girlfriends, will be reimagined with original cast members Wendy Raquel Robinson and Hosea Chanchez returning to their roles as Tasha Mack and Malik Wright.
According to Deadline, Brock Akil will return as executive producer alongside
Richard Vialet Welcomed Into Society Membership
The cinematographer’s credits include the series
P-Valley and
Nobody’s Fool.
New ASC member Richard Vialet studied cinematography at Howard University and the American Film Institute Conservatory. As a director of photography, he has worked on projects around the globe, shooting in locations including Cambodia, Bulgaria and Costa Rica, and is known for his popular feature collaborations with prolific actor-writer-director-producer Tyler Perry.
Richard Vialet, ASC (center) with director Thomas Carter (left) on the set of American Soul.
Vialet and Perry teamed up on the romantic comedy
Nobody’s Fool, psychological thriller
Acrimony and comedy horror
Education in the Borders is failing those in greatest need. Audit Scotland tells us that the gap in achievement between children from different economic backgrounds here is the widest in Scotland, is growing wider and that the achievement of our young people from the poorest homes is among the worst in Scotland. At the same time, Borders General has the worst waiting time figures in Scotland, with less than 75 per cent of A&E patients being seen in 4 hours or less. In the last year, the Borders has consistently been below the Scottish average and has never reached the Scottish Government’s target figure of 95 per cent.