Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival: Three blocks of film

Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival: Three blocks of film Published 4:34 pm Thursday, May 29, 2025 With the eighth annual Calcasieu Parish Short Film Festival comes over 20 new short films for Southwest Louisiana residents to enjoy. The Calcasieu Parish …

Alexis Herman: A legacy of courage, conviction and change

“Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.” – Alexis Herman Fear and intimidation have long been used as weapons to …

Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history

President Donald Trump says there is a genocide of white people taking place in South Africa, meaning that Black South Africans are deliberately attempting to kill white farmers because of their race. Trump and his spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, have said …

Dallas grad under fire for mass shooting claim met with Shapiro about gun violence in 2019

Years before his shocking claims about surviving a mass shooting at Dallas High School that never happened, Calvin Polachek had the ear of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro about the topic of guns. Shapiro was the Pennsylvania attorney general at the time and …

History of communal violence in Dakshina Kannada

The New Politics Of Territorial Expansion

Credits Nils Gilman is a deputy editor of Noema Magazine and the chief operating officer at the Berggruen Institute. Zachariah Mampilly is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at The City …

Jesse Short Bull talks Indigenous American history, Leonard Peltier and the toll telling a story can take

Jesse Short Bull is a filmmaker from the Oglala Lakota Tribe in the state of South Dakota, who is currently touring his second feature film, “Free Leonard Peltier.” The film is showing at this year’s Seattle International FIlm Festival (SIFF), which The …

San people feel left out of genocide memory

Allexer Namundjebo San people have been sidelined in the country’s genocide remembrance, says Tsumkwe-based community activist Calvin Kazibe.  He argues that the national narrative focuses mainly on the Ovaherero and Nama experiences, ignoring the colonial …

Stolen knife last of crimes for jailed man

Ten months of crime came to an end when a man was caught strolling down a central Dunedin street with a stolen 21cm kitchen knife, a court has heard. Rewa Benjermin Herini Kingi, 54, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday where he conceded he …

Open World Games With 100+ Hours of Content

I am a huge fan of RPGs. As such, I often can't wait to get my hands on an open-world game, because they tend to offer some of the most compelling content, and the best way to spend your time. Open world titles are often filled with tons of …