The first week of class, civil engineering senior Samantha Spencer received a unique notice the evening of Jan. 13 that completely changed her plans for the following three weeks.
Letâs focus on keeping local businesses afloat
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Letâs focus on keeping local businesses afloat
I am dismayed to be back in lockdown but given the circumstances and possible consequences â a significant and rapid spread of a highly virulent strain of the virus â I am prepared to do what it takes.
It is not helpful for various industry bodies to be quick to tell me what damage this will do to an already battered Victorian economy. What would be helpful is for these organisations to use their considerable communications expertise to tell me what I can do to help local businesses that are hit hard. The government is being nimble in introducing restrictions. We
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There are few movies receiving as much as attention as Shaka Kingâs
Judas and the Black Messiah thanks to the biographical dramaâs heartbreaking retelling of the events that led to the assassination of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and the struggles of the African-American community in late 1960s. The
Judas and the Black Messiah cast, which includes Daniel Kaluuya as impassioned activist and LaKeith Stanfield as the criminal-turned-informant who provided the FBI with information on the Black Panthers, is another reason the movie is receiving so much buzz.
And outside of the two main leads,
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A Nightmare on
Elm Street (1984) which feature all white casts. As Andrew Wiese writes, the suburbs, particularly on screen, are a “Spatial metaphor for whiteness itself”
4. But as Sociologist James Loewen reminds us, America’s suburbs did not fortuitously remain white. “On the contrary, all-white suburbs were achieved”
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In the Jim Crow South, for instance, so-called Sundown Towns––places that banned non-whites from entering city lines after dark, were used as a strategy to segregate minority groups from white populations. Some communities posted signs such as ‘Nigger Don’t Let the Sun Set on You Here’ at the entrance of their town, warning non-whites of the consequences of being found after dark. And even though many Black people often worked or shopped in these spaces during the day, by preventing them from spending the night in the town, residents made sure that physically and symbolically such places remained white.