Guyana: LATEST NEWS –February 5, 2017 – Kaieteur News… (see links to other news sources below)
- Forensic audit reveals…Go-Invest was a personal piggy bank for Keith Burrowes
- A CLEAR CASE OF BIAS AS…Go-Invest recommended best of concessions for Sleepin Hotel and favoured few
- Four non-performing foreign entities get $2B in concessions
- Giftland, M&CC at odds over ownership of access road
- Duty free concessions…Ex-CEO transferred after refusing to carry out unlawful act
- GNIC is trespassing but pays $60 million as part of NICIL court settlement
- GTT ties telecoms liberalization to higher landline rates
- Karrau Village gets first water distribution network
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Cultural criticism depicted in documentary: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ – commentary
James Baldwin
If you love cultural criticism, you have to see ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
There are a lot of powerful things about “I Am Not Your Negro,” Raoul Peck’s Academy Award-nominated documentary, which opens this weekend. The movie juxtaposes the pages Baldwin wrote for a never-finished project about Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X called “Remember This House” with footage and photographs from the civil rights movement and the beating of Rodney King as well as scenes from the contemporary struggle for criminal-justice reform. Without diminishing the political clarity of these juxtapositions, the element of “I Am Not Your Negro” that struck me most strongly was the way the movie presents Baldwin as a cultural critic and analyst. Continue reading →
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