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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Viva La Revolutionario: Where Healthy & Cheap Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Comments (1) | Africa, Food, Food, North Africa, taco

Sara Tiano
Senior News Editor

North African tacos served with a heaping side of much-needed food accessibility in South L.A.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Best Music Festivals Happening Abroad

Comments (0) | Africa, Australia, best music festivals, Blur, clisson, day after festival, EDM, finland, Florence + The Machine, flow festival, France, global music, hellfest, Helsinki, lake malawi, lake of stars, malaysia music festival, Mark Ronson, Music, music festivals, osaka japan, panama, Panama city, Splendour In The Grass, summer sonic festival, Tokyo, Unicef, urbanscapes, World Music, world music festivals

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Gennyvera Pacheco
Staff Reporter

Because there are more in the world than Gov Ball and Coachella. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Painting With A Broad Brush: American Rhetoric Alienates Muslims The World Over

Comments (1) | Africa, America, Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly, bosnia, Buddhism, cartel, Casablanca, Central African Republic, Christianity, Columnists, columnists, conflict, culture, ethnic cleansing, European Settlers, Genocide, global turning points, Holocaust, ignorance, islam, Mesopotamia, Mexico, Middle East, morocco, Muslim, Myanmar, native americans, nazi, Nazi Germany, power, russia, Rwanda Genocide, Sam Harris, September 11, the Crusades, tolerance, Ukraine, United States, united states of america, violence, Western society

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

What do we hope to gain by disparaging 1.5 billion Muslim people, other than an excuse for cultural conflict?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

It’s Time to Begin Storing Chocolate.

Comments (0) | Africa, Chinese consumer, chocolate, chocolate production, drought, ebola, Food, m&m's, shortage, Snickers, store chocolate

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Jianyu Zhao, Web producer

Are you a heavy consumer of chocolate? You know what? It's the very time to save it!

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Olympian Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to 5 Years In Prison For Killing Girlfriend

Comments (0) | Africa, athelete, athletes news, court trial, culpable homicide, double amputee, Gun Violence, guns, Helen Carefoot, homicide, intruder, judge, judicial system, murder, nation, Nation and World, negligent killing, news, news brief, Olympian, oscar pistorius, Reena Steenkamp, South Africa, the guardian, Thokozile Mastipa, valentine's day, violence, world, World News

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Helen Carefoot
Web Producer

Olympian convicted of negligent killing without intent to murder

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

How Ebola Is Spreading Racism

Comments (0) | Africa, africa is a continent, Africa is a country, African immigrants, African tourism, Africans, AIDS, Ayob, Columnist, disease, disease stigma, ebola, Ebola in Dallas, Ebola in th United States, Ebola outbreak, Ebola racism, Ebola symptoms, ebola virus, generalizing Africa, Guinea, hiv, HIV/AIDS, Justine Sacco, liberia, Opinion, race, racism, racist, Sierra Leone, the war at home, the war at home column, thomas eric duncan, West Africa

Corinne Gaston
Deputy Opinion Editor

Are race-based fears of Ebola in the Unitd States feeding into the stereotype of the "diseased African?"

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

How To Deter A Genocidal Maniac: Strengthening The International Criminal Court

Comments (1) | 1998 Rome Convention, Africa, african union, Central African Republic, Columnists, crimes against humanity, Democratic Republic of Congo, displacement, failed states, fragile state, Genocide, global turning points, International Criminal Court, international news, ivory coast, Kenya, Kikuyu tribe, Laurent Gbagbo, Loa tribe, militias, murder, nairobi, rape, Rwanda, somalia, Sudan, the hague, uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta, United States, Yugoslavia

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

The ICC could change the world - if the United States would let it.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Film Review: 'The Good Lie'

Comments (0) | Actor, actress, Africa, aid programs, Arclight, arnold oceng, child solidiers, cinema, civil war, college journalism, Corey Stoll, emmanuel jal, entertainment, ethiopia, Film and TV, film score, find a way, ger duany, government, Helen Carefoot, Kansas City, Kenya, kuoth wiel, lost boys of sudan, monsieur lazhar, movie review, movies, Music, neon tommy, new movie, nico & vinz, Philippe Falardeau, Reese Witherspoon, refugee, Review, score, South Africa, Sudan, Sudanese civil war, the good lie, Unicef, Wild

Helen Carefoot
Web Producer

"The Good Lie" uses Reese Witherspoon's star power to get audiences into the theatre, but the story is why they'll stay.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Angelina Jolie To Direct Richard Leakey Biopic 'Africa'

Comments (1) | Africa, angelina jolie, Batman, Bosnian War, Brad Pitt, By the Sea, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Eric Roth, Film and TV, Flashdance, forrest gump, In the Land of Blood and Honey, jack reacher, Jon Peters, Kenya, Louis Zamperini, Munich, Richard Leakey, Roger Deakins, Skydance Productions, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Steven Spielberg, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tim Burton, Unbroken, universal pictures, World War II, World War Z

Besides "Africa," Angelina Jolie also has 2 other directorial projects in the works right now. (@TheWrap / Twitter)

Michelle Tiu
Entertainment Producer

It seems like the actress will be focusing on her work behind the lens for now.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Inspiration Runs Both Ways At UCLA's Ghanaian Fabric Exhibit

Comments (0) | Africa, appropriation, Art, Arts+Culture, China, culture, Design, exhibition, expensive, Fabric, Fashion, Fowler Museum, Ghana, luxury, prints, UCLA

Betsy Quick explains the history of printed Ghanaian fabrics at the Fowler Museum (Vanessa Okoth-Obbo/Neon Tommy)

Vanessa Okoth-Obbo
Staff Reporter

When African prints pop up in Western design, does it signal exploitation? The answer is complex.

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