What Oscar favorite ‘Chicago 7’ got wrong, from an ex-Rutgers professor who was there
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Anti-war activist Jerry Rubin, along with other defendants in the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, speaks to the press in this February 1970 photo. Front row, from left: Rennie Davis, Rubin, Abbie Hoffman. Back row, from left: Lee Weiner, Bob Lamb and Thomas Hayden. (AP PHOTO)ASSOCIATED PRESS
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With six nominations including Best Picture, Netflix’s “The Trial of The Chicago 7″ heads into Oscar weekend riding high, following months of acclaim for the Aaron Sorkin-directed film.
But the drama’s depiction of the infamous political trial, where a ragtag group of anti-Vietnam War activists were tried by President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department, was heavily sanitized and romanticized for Hollywood, said Lee Weiner, one of the last two living members of the notorious seven.
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First Jim Crow. Now SB 2020. In Georgia, voter suppression has always been a concern for Black voters
Since the mid-1800s, Georgia’s voting laws have worked to suppress Black voters and by extension other disenfranchised groups.
Raisa Habersham, Savannah Morning News
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4:43 pm UTC Apr. 1, 2021
The first time Bettye Berksteiner s parents tried to vote, they were told they were at the wrong precinct.
It was 1948 and their first attempt was at a church roughly eight blocks from their home. Once there, Lucy and James West were told their names were not listed. The couple was sent to a second location.