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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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Visual Artist Highlights Afro-Latin History & Uplifts the Community

Comments (0) | Afro-Cuban, Arts+Culture, Cornel, cuba, HABLA, Harvesting Asian Black Latino ArtistsBetty Bynum, Jamaica, Lili Bernard, mulatta, Slavery, visual artist

Ashley Nash
Staff Contributor

As we celebrate Black History Month, let's take a closer look at African lineage in America and across the world. Visual Artist Lili Bernard examines her Afro-Cuban culture sparking discussion and inspiration throughout her community.

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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.

 

USC Alum's Video Game Takes On Slavery

Comments (0) | Art and Design, Arts+Culture, Controversy, Entertainment News, International, Media, Oliveira, Ouya, Science+Tech, Slavery, Technology, trans-Atlantic slave trade, video games

A still from "Thralled." Used with permission from Miguel Oliveira.

Isaac Moody
Staff Reporter

The game educates players about a historical calamity with present-day ramifications.

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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.

 

The Terror Two Hours South

Comments (1) | autogenocide, beheadings, Bill Maher, cartels, child prostitution, child soldiers, citizen journalists, Columnists, columnists, crimes against humanity, Daily Mail, discourse, Genocide, global turning points, Gulf Cartel, human rights, Iguala, isis, islam, Jose Luis Abarca, Journalism, los Guerreros Unidos, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, Maria del Rosario Fuentes, Media, Mexico, Middle East, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, organ harvesting, rape, reynosa, Ricardo Cesar Nino Villarreal, Sam Harris, Slavery, torture, Twitter, United States, war, Zeta cartel

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

More Americans have died due to Mexican cartel violence than in the entirety of the Iraq War.

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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.

 

Branding: It's A Black Thing, You Wouldn't Understand

Comments (2) | Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alphas, antebellum south, black friendship, black hazing lawsuit, black identification, black notions of brotherhood, black notions of sisterhood, black sororities, black unity, branding, Brotherhood, code of silence, Columnist, Columnists, cow bells, defending branding, divide in black culture, forest whitaker, hazing, historical trauma, Is the south, it's a black thing,, lawsuit ends code of silence, master, new york times, Omegas, opinion, oppressed, oppressor, origins of branding, paddling, Plantation Mentality, present affects of slavery, psychological trauma, Q Dogs, repeating historical trauma, School Daze, shameless series, Sisterhood, Slavery, Spike Lee, symbolism behind branding, underground, west african branding, yoruba branding

Maya Richard-Craven
Columnist

"I have an opportunity to be a slave master as many times as I want when it's all over." 

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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.

 

Prison Labor: Exploitation Or Rehabilitation?

Comments (4) | 13th amendment, A New Way of Life Reentry Project, black codes, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Chik-fil-A, Congress, Constitution, criminal justice, department of defense, drug dependency, drug distribution, drug offenders, Federal Prison Industries, involuntary servitude, labor exploitation, labor practices, mental health, National, Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman, prison labor, Prison Policy Initiative, prison reform, punishment, rehabilitation, Slavery, Turbeville Correctional Institution, U.S. Sentencing Commission, UNICOR

Lorelei Christie
Staff Reporter

Is prison labor a modern incarnation of slavery or a productive form of rehabilitation? 

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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.

 

More Than Overcrowding: A Deeper Look At The Problem With Prisons

Comments (2) | 13th amendment, A New Way of Life Reentry Project, abuse, bipolar, black codes, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Chik-fil-A, community-based treatment, Congress, Constitution, criminal justice, department of defense, Department of Justice, doj, domestic abuse, drug abuses, drug dependency, drug distribution, drug offenders, Federal Prison Industries, incarcerated women, involuntary servitude, jail, just detention, labor exploitation, labor practices, mass incarceration, medical perscription, mental health, mental illness, mother infant program, Nation and World, National, National, no justice, Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman, prison, prison labor, Prison Policy Initiative, prison reform, punishment, rape, rehabilitation, Sexual Abuse, sexual assault, Slavery, Turbeville Correctional Institution, Twin Towers Correctional Facility, U.S. Sentencing Commission, UNICOR

Sara Newman, Lorelei Christie, Matthew Tinoco, Hannah Madans, Meng Meng, Sophia Li, Minerva Ruelas
Staff Reporters

Prison reform, it’s one of the oldest ideas out there—when something doesn’t work, fix 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.

 

'Sluts' At The Super Bowl: How We're Part Of The Problem

Comments (0) | America, children, children's rights, derogatory, football, game, human trafficking, kidnap, Language, MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, Opinion, prostitution, rape, sex, sex trafficking, sex work, sexual assault, Slavery, slut shaming, Sunday, Superbowl, Superbowl Sunday, touchdown, victim blaming, violence against women, women's rights, world

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Judy Lee
Contributor

"Whore: a woman who sleeps with everyone but you."

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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.

 

Couple Arrested For Enslaving Three Women For 30 Years

Comments (0) | 30, arrest, arrested, british, Captive, Enslaved, London, Nation and World, Slavery

Raishad Hardnett
Executive Producer

The youngest victim had been enslaved her entire life, officials say.

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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.

 

L.A. School Police Vs. Students: The Fight Against Over-Policing

Comments (2) | Arrests, barbara lott-holland, black, brown, community rights campaign, crenshaw high school, Crime, Education, high school, james law, la unified, lapd, laspd, latino, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Region, los angeles police department, Los Angeles School Police Department, Los Angeles Unified School District, Manual Arts High School, Michael Davis, middle school, peter swift, poverty, public school, race, Slavery, south central los angeles, South Los Angeles, strategy center, ticketing, tickets

Michael Davis, a student at Manual Arts High School, was wrongfully arrested in Middle School. "Coming from a fami

Aaron Liu
Senior Staff Reporter

Activists protest the ticketing and incarceration of countless South L.A. public students. 

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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: '12 Years A Slave'

Comments (1) | 12 Years A Slave, Adepero Oduye, american, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Children of Men, Chiwetel Ejiofor, criticism, Film, Film and TV, history, imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, slave, Slavery, Solomon Northup, Steve McQueen, The Passion of the Christ, Twelve Years A Slave

Rex Lindeman
Staff Reporter

The cold realities of the slave trade are brought to light on film.

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