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LOVING WINS OVER THE SUPREME COURT Richard Loving (played by Joel Edgerton) marry Mildred (Ruth Negga) in 1958 by traveling from Caroline County, Virginia, to see a judge in Washington, DC. They thus know that they are violating Virginia’s antimiscegenation law but seem naïve about the consequences of returning home to inevitable arrest, as he […]

PRICELESS ENDS WITH A DOT COM Slavery continues today in a different from—the sale of young women into prostitution. But where can one find and expose the practice that goes on in the cities of the world? James Stevens (played by Joel Smallbone) does so in Priceless by accident. His wife has died, but he

THE BIRTH OF A NATION CELEBRATES FREEDOM FOR SLAVES—FOR A TIME A biopic of Nat Turner (played by director Ned Parker), The Birth of a Nation sets the framework for the famous Turner Rebellion of slaves in Southhampton County, Virginia (though filming is in Savannah, Georgia), who killed 60 Whites in two days before being

COME WHAT MAY ANSWERS CRITICS OF ADMITTING SYRIAN REFUGEES Many politicians question the current policy of admitting Syrians who are fleeing from a brutal civil war. Yet they may have forgotten that the French, expecting the German military to take over northern parts of their country, fled south in droves with no expectation of where

TANNA IS MARGARET MEAD’S DREAM COME TRUE What was it like in the Hawaiian Islands before the arrival of Captain Cook in 1778? There is no better portrayal on the screen than in Tanna, a contemporary Australian movie filmed on the island of Tanna, south of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila. Tanna was visited by Captain