good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, july 7th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. what a moment. moments ago, boris johnson announced he s resigning as britain s prime minister. them s the breaks, he says, a defiant boris johnson, bragging about his accomplishments, his electoral mandate, but certainly not apologizing and failing or refusing to answer the biggest question, when will he actually leave? johnson says he will announce a timetable next week, but there are indications he may want to hang on for months. this only exacerbates the turmoil at the top of this key u.s. ally. his resignation is coming after just a raft, a litany of scandals and a flood of resignations in the last 48 hours, 60 officials quitting johnson s conservative party government, johnson and his speech not dressing those self-inflicted wounds that brought his government down in the end, leaving it as berman mentioned there, them s the breaks
Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List” tells a powerful story that remains as important in 2024 as it was when it was released in 1993.
Ferris State University’s Shoah Visual History Project, in conjunction with the Big Rapids Festival of the Arts, is hosting a screening of the Academy Award-winning film at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12, in Room 202B of the David L. Eisler Center.
Based on a true story, “Schindler’s List” features Oskar Schindler, an industrialist and Nazi Party member, who helped save more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by providing them jobs in his factories.
Tracy Busch, a history professor in Ferris State’s College of Arts, Sciences and Education, sees this anniversary of the film’s original release as an appropriate time to host a screening in Big Rapids.
“On its 30th anniversary of the 1993 release of Schindler’s List, we take heart in remembering that acts of resistance,
Preserving and archiving battlefield video and testimony from people who endured mass violence in El Salvador to help future generations understand the impact of such atrocities will continue at Ferris State University, supported by a Merit Grant awarded by The Ferris Foundation.
Social Work professor Michael Berghoef said a previous Merit Grant allowed him to acquire various recorded materials of regional battles and witness accounts of the country’s civil war. About 75,000 people were killed between 1980 and 1992 when government forces conducted massacres, landmine placements, bombings and summary executions.
Berghoef, in November, met leaders of the Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California. The nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.
The foundation has 56,000 testimonies from El Salvad
The 2023 Roger Ebert Film Festival, known as Ebertfest, took place from Wednesday to Saturday at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign. The event included a collection of film screenings and guest appearances. Ebertfest began on Wednesday with a showing of “Nine Days.” According to Ebertfest’s website, Edson Oda, the film’s writer and director, made.