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Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger Urges Democrats to Halt Partisan Redistricting Talk — NYT

Less quoted than Baraka

NAME THAT FAVORITE TRACK! 55 Years Ago, the incomparable Marvin Gaye released Whats Going On. It was his 11th album and fostered multiple timeless classics including What's Going On, Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), and Save the Children. Recorded in Detroit and Los Angeles, it was Gaye's first album where he was credited as producer and also to credit Motown's in-house session musicians, "The Funk Brothers." The album established a narrative from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to his home country to witness hatred, suffering, racism, and injustice exploring themes of drug abuse, poverty, and the Vietnam War. It stayed on the Billboard Top LP charts for over a year and is heralded as one of the greatest albums of all time on numerous lists. What say you?

Here’s the class showing off their newspaper. I asked them to smile but you know how that goes!

beyond "nobody reads anymore," this is because many modern filmmakers work off of a base of the filmmakers they were inspired by, whereas those people were building off of art, sociology, history, and yes, literature. Obviously isn't true across the board, but you know

Can’t even enjoy a film without the future of Black cinema resting on its shoulders.