
‘Don’t Look Up’ Inspires Climate Change Activists in France
- Bolaji Odumodu
- March 13, 2022
On top of being Netflix’s second most watched movie (according to Netflix) and racking up four Oscar nominations, Adam McKay’s star-studded political satire “Don’t Look Up” also inspired tens of thousands to march against climate change in France on Saturday. More than 80,000 people protested peacefully in multiple cities in France on Saturday, including 32,000 […]
Read Full StoryGOP activists seek ‘Republican George Soros’ to combat crime, anarchy
- Global TimesNG
- February 12, 2022
The Republican Party needs a concerted effort to combat the influence that billionaire George Soros has had on quality of life in New York City, GOP insiders say.
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MUBI Acquires Sundance Doc ‘Free Chol Soo Lee,’ U.S. Theatrical Release Set for 2022 (EXCLUSIVE)
- Joyce Beatrice
- January 29, 2022
“Free Chol Soo Lee” has been acquired by global distributor, streamer and production company MUBI. The documentary, which premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival, will come to U.S. theaters in 2022, with release plans in other territories (Latin America, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, the U.K. and other parts of North America) to […]
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Mayor Adams’ plan to tackle crime is complicated — but it might actually work
- Global TimesNG
- January 25, 2022
plan to make New York safe landed on the table with a big fat plop Monday. It’s dauntingly complicated, it’s over-stuffed with concessions to grasping social activists and it’s impossibly dependent on actors far beyond the mayor’s control. But it just might make a difference. Urban America’s public-safety debate — absolutely unhinged two years ago […]
Read Full StoryBiden’s a dud man walking
- Global TimesNG
- January 16, 2022
declared his opponents traitors and racists. Included in that category were Democrats as well as Republicans, leading even members of his own party to concede Biden had gone too far. The scene was Atlanta where he gave a speech filled with distortions and extremely nasty attacks, as when the president challenged those who refuse to […]
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German court: Syrian man guilty of crimes against humanity
- Global TimesNG
- January 13, 2022
convicted last year of accessory to crimes against humanity and sentenced by the Koblenz court to 4½ years in prison. Both men were arrested in Germany in 2019, years after seeking asylum in the country. Serda Alshehabi comments on the verdict in front of the building of the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany. Victims of […]
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James Mtume, Jazz Great Best Known for Notorious B.I.G.-Sampled Hit ‘Juicy Fruit,’ Dies at 76
- Joyce Beatrice
- January 10, 2022
James Mtume, the R&B and jazz percussionist, recording artist and producer best known for the 1983 smash “Juicy Fruit” and his work with Miles Davis and other top jazz musicians, has died at the age of 76. The news was confirmed by his son to Pitchfork, among other sources; no cause was cited. Mtume’s affiliation […]
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Apple iPhone factory workers ate rotten food in rat-filled dorms: investigation
- Global TimesNG
- December 30, 2021
Apple pays out holiday bonuses of up to $180,000 to some US engineers. The situation was thrust into the public eye when 159 women were hospitalized for food poisoning in mid-December, sparking a rare worker protest. Apple has since indefinitely put the Foxconn-run plant “on probation” and says it will not be reopened until it […]
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‘To the End’ Review: A Documentary About Trying to Change the Systems Enabling Climate Change
Unstoppable force meets immovable object in “To the End.” Rachel Lears’ documentary inspires in its portrait of youthful activists organizing to push impactful climate-change policies into American political reality — and exasperates in the resistance with which that urgent quest is greeted on both sides of the entrenched-power aisle. Covering several years of fast-moving events, […]
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