Barbara O. Jones, an actress whose captivating work in films like “Bush Mama” and “Daughters of the Dust” helped define the cerebral, experimental and highly influential Black cinema movement that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, died on April 8 at her home in Dayton, Ohio. She was 82. Her brother Marlon Minor confirmed […]
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Read MoreOver the last week, Fabiola, a sophomore at Columbia, joined an encampment on her university’s quad, risked suspension and disrupted campus life, all in an effort to draw attention to the Palestinian cause. She describes stopping Israel’s deadly siege of Gaza as a moral duty — an urgent imperative around which she has reoriented her […]
Read MoreIt was an example of a tolerant campus, where a burgeoning pro-Palestinian encampment might be left alone even as student protesters were arrested across the nation. Free speech would be supported as long as things remained peaceful, officials said last week. But by Wednesday morning, the peace at the University of California, Los Angeles, had […]
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Officials at the University of California, Los Angeles, declared a pro-Palestinian encampment illegal for the first time on Tuesday night and warned protesters that they faced consequences if they did not leave. It was an abrupt turn at a campus that had been among the most tolerant in the nation, abiding by a University of […]
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