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I’m a huge Jay-Z fan, and equally as big an Angela Davis fan, so my immediate response to this news was “awesome.” From Deadline.com: [Will and Jada Smith's] Overbrook Entertainment and [Jay-Z's] Roc Nation will lend their clout to the Realside Productions/De Films Aiguille-produced documentary  Free Angela & All Political Prisoners , which was directed by Shola Lynch. They will become executive producers on a film that premieres at the upcoming  Toronto Film Festival and marks the 40th anniversary of the acquittal of Angela Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy…

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From “Dracula” to “Jaws,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” to “Schindler’s List,” Universal singles out a baker’s dozen from its 100 years of moviemaking.

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Variety: Hollywood Teamster drivers and four other basic craft unions have ratified a three-year successor deal to their master contract with the major studio and network producers.

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So why does the speaker lineup at today’s event, heavily marketed as family-friendly and all about the food, include Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers , his FBI-most-wanted-list wife Bernardine Dohrn, Van Jones, Jesse …

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By Ed Rampell, July 9, 2012 “What about Iraq? What about what’s going on in the Middle East? What about our wars?

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Fox News has returned to its red-baiting smears against workers, calling the May Day labor holiday that is recognized in more than 80 countries a “communist holiday.” The Fox show America Live introduced an April 30 segment on May Day protests planned by Occupy Wall Street by playing black-and-white newsreel footage of a military parade in Moscow in the days of the Soviet Union in celebration of the holiday. Subtle. America Live host Megyn Kelly continued this narrative, saying: “Six decades ago, the first of May was best known as a day of celebration in Moscow and Havana, as workers in the Communist Party marked what they called their accomplishments.” Fox contributor Charles Payne echoed this red-baiting smear later that day on Your World , said that May Day “dovetails into a big, giant communist holiday”: But Fox is obscuring the origin of this holiday, which began in 19th-century America.

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