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US Inauguration Day 2021: Amanda Gorman, youngest inaugural poet, to recite verses written after Capitol attack
•At 22, Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have been recruited to help mark a presidential inauguration, including Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.
Barack Obama on writing A Promised Land, the books that shaped his politics and how he found his voice
•Because he thinks the computer can lend “half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness,” Barack Obama writes his first drafts longhand on yellow legal pads; the act of typing it into the computer essentially becomes a first edit.
'What we’re seeing today is the demonisation of dissent': Aaron Sorkin on upcoming film, news media, and courtroom dramas
Prahlad Srihari •In a conversation moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, Sorkin discussed his film The Trial of the Chicago 7, directing a starry ensemble cast, and the “demonisation of dissent” in Trump’s America.
Civil rights hero John Lewis' funeral set for Atlanta church that Martin Luther King Jr once led
•King, a former pastor to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, inspired Lewis' civil rights work as he fought segregation both on the street and during his long tenure in the US Congress
John Lewis, towering figure of America's Civil Rights Movement, dies at 80
•On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end Jim Crow laws, with blows to his body and a fractured skull to prove it, John Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the civil rights movement and the last surviving speaker at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods — about Black soldiers in 'Vietnam War' — can't rise above American imperialism
•Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee's anti-racist critique could not overcome his subconscious investment in American imperialism.
Da 5 Bloods movie review: Spike Lee turns Vietnam War into ambitious manifesto on racism and reparations
Prahlad Srihari •Gifted with chilling foresight, Spike Lee offers a meditation on current circumstances by looking through the prism of the past.
George Floyd protests in US: With Donald Trump in the White House, the fight for racial justice gets nastier
Angshuman Choudhury •By constantly threatening to deploy federal troops through executive fiat and encouraging states to use force against protesters, US president Donald Trump is openly flirting with militaristic authoritarianism while testing the limits of the law
US Election 2020: Kamala Harris surges to second spot among 20 Democratic presidential aspirants after first debate
•A rising Democratic Party star and vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, if elected, would be the first woman and woman of colour to be the President of the United States.
Dalits, Muslims in India need leaders who can champion their rights despite backlash from hegemonic forces
Milind Deora And Sanaa Bhutani •Leaders don’t have to be Muslim or Dalit to espouse their cause. Perhaps, a true sign of democracy and progress in India would be a nationwide Hindu leader championing equality and rights for Muslims, or a Brahmin leader fighting to abolish the caste system