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Still, a talented filmmaker could frame Bourdain’s charismatic, adrenaline-fueled, camera-saturated career as a touching and instructive case study of the potholes and pitfalls of reconciling one’s public life with one’s private life. With millions of people cultivating and tending their personas on social media, that’s no longer just the concern of A-list stars. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documentaries are typically made in the editing room, and frequently they are found there: the themes, structure and even the story. Morgan Neville never found his film—\u003cem>Roadrunner\u003c/em> has no center, no overriding theme, no thrust beyond its frenetic editing—yet he spins his wheels for nearly two hours. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anthony Bourdain was an accidental star, if we believe Morgan Neville’s scattershot, superficial and, eventually, lugubrious documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.focusfeatures.com/roadrunner\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. A drug user who studied and graduated from line cook to chef, Bourdain was signed by a literary agent based on an off-the-cuff Tokyo travelogue he emailed to a friend. When \u003cem>Kitchen Confidential\u003c/em> became a surprise bestseller in 2000, a couple of newlywed producers enlisted its author for a food/travel show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bourdain was in his mid-40s, long-married to high school girlfriend Nancy Putkoski and entrenched in the high-pressure, low-margin, long-hours lifestyle of the Manhattan restaurant world. The implications and complications of massive mid-life success strike me as a rich subject—and a natural one for the prolific director of klieg-light subjects like \u003cem>20 Feet From Stardom\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Won’t You Be My Neighbor?\u003c/em>, about TV’s Fred Rogers—but Neville leapfrogs from Bourdain’s anonymity to his celebrity, glossing over the transition and the transformation. (Putkoski’s absence from the film suggests she chose not to participate all these years after their 2005 divorce, but her perspective is greatly missed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899978\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00081_rgb_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Bourdain in a still from ‘Roadrunner,’ 2021. \u003ccite>(Dmitri Kasterine / Focus Features)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bourdain wrote more books and articles, but he achieved household-name status from his various television series. An aggressively gregarious and winsomely introspective New Yorker, his Everyman quality and gravelly honesty made him a beloved, not just popular, TV character. When he died by suicide in 2016 in France, where he was shooting an episode of the Emmy Award-winning CNN series, \u003ci>Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown\u003c/i>, he shocked his audience and stunned his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Roadrunner\u003c/em> presents itself as a search for a seeker, but it isn’t interested in the power of success or the foibles of fame. Late in the proceedings it becomes about the elusiveness of happiness, but by then the film wears on even the most sympathetic viewer’s last nerve. The more time we spend with Bourdain, you see, the less unique, substantial and consequential he becomes. Like most stars who shine and flicker on our screens, whatever was compelling about him made its way into, and was maximized or exploited by, his snappily shot and edited vehicles. There’s nothing else to mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/RR_FP_00312_rgb_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Chang and Anthony Bourdain in ‘Roadrunner,’ 2021. \u003ccite>(Focus Features, in association with Zero Point Zero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robbie Robertson of The Band acknowledged the toll the road takes in \u003cem>The Last Waltz\u003c/em> (1978), and perhaps the wear and tear, in cahoots with his latent self-destructiveness, burned Bourdain out. Still, a talented filmmaker could frame Bourdain’s charismatic, adrenaline-fueled, camera-saturated career as a touching and instructive case study of the potholes and pitfalls of reconciling one’s public life with one’s private life. With millions of people cultivating and tending their personas on social media, that’s no longer just the concern of A-list stars. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Humor has the capacity to disarm, CJ Hunt discovered in his stints as a middle-school teacher and stand-up comic. It’s part of his toolkit as a producer on \u003ci>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\u003c/i>. But are irony, dry wit and self-mockery effective ways of turning a mirror on racists and Confederate sympathizers, and shifting their thinking?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the starting point of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amdoc.org/watch/neutralground/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Neutral Ground\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Hunt’s informative, entertaining, provocative and sobering contribution to the debate around Civil War monuments. The season opener of PBS’ long-running \u003ci>POV\u003c/i> series, \u003cem>The Neutral Ground\u003c/em> airs Monday, July 5 at 9:30pm on KQED and streams online through Aug. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary opens with a bevy of impassioned public comments at a 2015 New Orleans city council meeting, culminating with a vote to remove four Confederate statues. Hunt is wryly skeptical of the pro-monument arguments—“This is our history” and “The Civil War was about states’ rights”—and dispenses some good-natured mockery before digging into the archives for documents in which the leading lights of the Confederacy declare the preservation of slavery as their primary objective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899788\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-22-1_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right-wing extremists protest the removal of a Confederate monument in ‘The Neutral Ground.’ \u003ccite>(Paavo Hanninen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time that Hunt positions \u003cem>The Neutral Ground\u003c/em> as both a present-day reconnaissance and a research project, our Black and Filipino guide frames it as a personal journey. But those roots aren’t stereotypically heroic: His father, a Black teacher, reminds Hunt that he had to prod him numerous times growing up before he acknowledged and confronted the reality and legacy of his Black identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This straight-talk conversation is designed to cast Hunt as an inquisitive everyman rather than an agenda-driven investigator, though it isn’t likely to fool many viewers. It works on a white-whiskered good ol’ boy whom Hunt accompanies to, and through, a full-dress Civil War battle reenactment—until Hunt presents our Southern man with an invitation to visit the Whitney Plantation, a recently opened Louisiana museum about the history of slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subtext of \u003cem>The Neutral Ground\u003c/em> is the way in which the Black experience—of slavery, of post-Reconstruction, of Jim Crow, of contemporary police violence, of the latent racism championed by the twice-impeached previous president—is continually ignored, denied and/or literally whitewashed. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899714/summer-of-soul-celebrates-a-1969-black-cultural-festival-eclipsed-by-woodstock\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Summer of Soul\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Questlove’s dense, intense and essential documentary about the pivotal-yet-underrated Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, hits that note as well.[aside postID='arts_13899714']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While vignettes and one-liners stick in a viewer’s memory, factual information is arguably the most valuable part of documentaries like \u003cem>The Neutral Ground\u003c/em>. Hunt exposes the roots of the Lost Cause fairy tale as a feel-good sop to the widows and mothers of Confederate casualties (hence the preponderance of monuments in cemeteries) and as a reassertion of white power once federal officials departed after Reconstruction (bluntly expressed by the placement of statues of Jefferson Davis, et al. adjacent to courthouses and other government buildings).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899789\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/NG-PublicityStills2020-30-3_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Robert E. 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Bringing it all back home at the end of the film, New Orleans native Tarriona “Tank” Ball delivers her version of the erstwhile battle hymn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Hunt winds up where he began, he visits Charlottesville during the August 2017 Unite the Right rally where Heather Heyer was killed. The jokes and sight gags have been dwindling for a while, but irreverence gives way to terror in Virginia. There’s nothing funny about 21st-century white supremacists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that sequence, Hunt demolishes another beloved fallacy about the Civil War and its various legacies: There is no neutral ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘The Neutral Ground’ airs on ‘POV’ Monday, July 5 at 9:30pm on KQED and streams online through Aug. 4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.amdoc.org/watch/neutralground/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And you realize you’re seeing something more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crafted from footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival—an event so filled with stars from soul, R&B, blues and jazz they called it the Black Woodstock—\u003cem>Summer of Soul\u003c/em> is a breathtaking chronicle of Black culture in a pivotal moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide constellation of stars turned up for the festival, which drew more than 300,000 people over six free concerts held in the space now known as Marcus Garvey Park. The roster of performers included Wonder, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, The Staples Singers, B.B. King, Ray Barretto, The Temptations’ former frontman David Ruffin, The 5th Dimension, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just documenting their jaw-dropping live work would add up to an amazing concert film. 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By 1969, the country had already endured the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; the film suggests one reason city officials backed the festival was in hope the celebration would prevent rioting on the anniversary of King’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film also reflects significant shifts in Black culture and expression at that pivotal moment. Award-winning journalist and former NPR correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault spoke about transitioning from use of the word “negro” to “Black” in describing African Americans while working at \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>in 1969. 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He’s not someone particularly special and didn’t have any real ties to Trump, but he is someone who had access and motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that by revealing the mechanics behind Q and the personalities behind it,” Hoback said, “that they see that it really is just this kind of absurd cast of characters that created this massive global movement and that it is not this sort of scary mystery box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement grew so large that QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed openness to Q\u003c/a>” even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\">won\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seats\u003c/a> in Congress, where they continue to spread misinformation. 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It’s a sum that’s not just high for a member of Congress but rivals many Senate candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q hasn’t posted since the election, and many of its followers have been disappointed that its supposed prophecies haven’t come true. So where does the grassroots energy behind the movement, with its distrust of experts and willingness to believe misinformation, go from here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_Gf9H2CWI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoback talked with NPR about his investigation, what he hopes people take away from it and what it all might mean for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following is a selection of our conversation and was edited for length and clarity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NPR: You were following QAnon far back when most of us—it was under our noses and just didn’t really understand it. Why did you then think that this was an important topic to cover and what drew you to it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOBACK: I thought it was a sign of things to come, both in the ways Q was being managed online, removing Q or suggesting that this thing was something that was too dangerous to be allowed on Reddit. It made me wonder if it actually was going to have the opposite effect, if it was going to make it bigger. To me, it looked like something that was likely to continue to grow. And I was just drawn to the mystery as well. I felt that unmasking Q might bring the whole thing to a conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a political editor. Jan. 6 was one of the most harrowing moments in the film. What do you take away from the lead-up to Jan. 6? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891014']The day itself, I found to be rather nerve-wracking. I think anybody who had really been tracking what was going on could see that this was the moment in which those power players who had been circling around Q, whether that’s Roger Stone, [retired Maj.] Gen. [Paul] Vallely, [retired] Gen. [Michael] Flynn, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, all of these guys, they were all prodding in the runup to Jan. 6 in a way to make the Q narrative real. And there were these overlapping groups that were all driving toward something similar. So I think if you were tracking it closely, you probably would have thought like myself that it was going to be even worse than it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much fault do you think Ron and Jim deserve for that day? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don’t think Jan. 6 happened because of Q, but I also don’t think it would have happened without Q.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How interconnected was Trump world and Q?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I would like for there to be more investigation into the ties between Ron and Jim and some of these power players in D.C.—Gen. Flynn and these other characters. I mean, we’ve seen some forensic evidence, and certainly after the 2016 election, it stands to reason that, given the amount of traffic 8chan was turning to Trump’s own campaign, that they would have reached out. I think the series paints a pretty good case for their ties to these D.C. operatives. But the exact nature of that relationship remains a little unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who were some of the key players and how much were they feeding Q information?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the series, we show what we know, which is that Jerome Corsi, the known conspiracy theorist, had ties with all of these guys, close ties, and was one of the first to bolster Q. He says that a couple of people he holds very close to him—and we know that he has ties to Vallely—said you need to start paying attention to this. Bring it on Alex Jones’ [show]. Make it bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that would indicate that very early on, some of these ex-military networks saw the value in Q, saw that it was gaining steam and wanted to bolster it. When you talk about the information that’s being funneled, I don’t think there was really any meaningful information being funneled to Q. Q was just basically picking its favorite research out of things that the anons [anonymous posters] were collecting on 8chan and then 8kun, and then reflecting that research, or those ideas or the conspiracy theories back to the anons in the form of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you didn’t have to be Gen. Michael Flynn to write the Q drops. You just needed to be an incredibly engaged and active user of 8chan and very well versed in the research and analysis and all the internet data points that were being collected in order to create that narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The documentary builds a powerful case that Ron is Q. Ron denies this, but in the documentary, he seems to relish the idea of being suspected. After the election, he comes out of the shadows and begins posting in his own name on Twitter about the election. He even \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-meets-qanon-influencers-conspiracy-theory-s-adherents-beg-dictatorship-n1252144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>appears on OAN\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, the right-wing cable TV platform, to share his false conspiracies about Dominion voting machines. Along with Trump, Ron was banned from Twitter. Tell us more about why you think it’s him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s so much more evidence I have pointing to Ron than what I was able to keep in the series. There’s mountains of it, including things he said to me since then. That’s part of why it was so valuable to spend this much time with them, because they’re not going to tell me the truth. So the answers lie in the omissions, in how they change their stories, in basically what they’re hiding and then what they eventually sort of choose to reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things Ron messaged me after the series dropped, he said, “You know, Cullen, I identify more with villains.” He wrote, “Something I learned a long time ago is that internet personalities are just actors on a stage. Making things larger than life makes for a better story and ultimately a more entertaining existence.” And then he goes on to say, “Getting away from the narrative that Ron is Q will be impossible, so I may as well embrace it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that it’s, like, almost an admission in and of itself. And there have been a few of those since then. You know, I think deep down he wants the credit, but he can’t take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you hope people take away from knowing who Q was?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that when you demystify something, it takes away its power. You’re left with the baggage of the man and the motives of the man, and it just changes the equation. You know, if you talk to a Q follower, they could imagine that Q could be any number of things. It could have all of the benefits and none of the cons. And also it allowed them to imagine that there was this massive, super top secret military operation in the works. And I think that the truth matters. I think that it’s important to reveal the forces behind the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I think deep down, most of those who believed in Q wanted to know the truth. Whether or not they’re willing to accept it is another story. I just present them with the information, and they’ll draw their own conclusions. I don’t expect QAnons to watch this and suddenly, be like, “Well, I don’t believe in Q anymore.” The misery of shame is too great. I think that it’s a process, and that story may continue to evolve, but I think, also, the people who’ve seen who’s behind the operation, will they be likely to believe in Q now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you heard from any Q followers or supporters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891257']I have heard from a number of folks, I mean, my DMs on Twitter have been just insane. Some of them had been from Q followers. Some of them have been from family members of Q followers. And I’ve gotten more than a dozen messages now from people who said that, for the first time in a year in some cases, they’re communicating with their family members who were believers in Q. They feel like they understand now what this thing was that they believed in. They can talk about sort of the underlying mechanics and who was behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mileage may vary. I don’t expect that that’s going to be the case for everybody. But anecdotally, there’s been a number of cases now where lines of communication are reopening between those who believe in Q and their family members. I think that’s really important, because I have a lot of Q followers who sometimes just call me in the middle of the night, because they were lonely or because they needed someone to talk to or they just saw me as a grounding force, and I would often tell them, “Look, you need to try to try to talk to your brother, try to find some common ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where does this all go from here? What happens to Q followers and the movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve probably seen the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958907699/the-qanon-storm-never-struck-some-supporters-are-wavering-others-steadfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegram groups\u003c/a>. They’re not that gigantic, maybe 100,000 people or so. And they’re a pretty passionate community. I suspect that it will evolve. It will splinter into factions. Elements of QAnon will be absorbed into the main line of the GOP. But I think Q, as we knew it, will not remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the point that you’re most hoping audiences take away from your film? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the antiseptic of sunlight is a powerful force. And by having people sit down and actually engage with sort of the ugly reality of Q, it also gives them a language. It not only helps them understand what was really happening this whole time, but it also helps a lot of people kind of communicate with those who maybe were on the brink of buying into Q or currently believe in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not going to be an easy path going forward coexisting with a lot of people who believe in this stuff, but I think that we’re already starting to see that the series is helping families reopen lines of communication now. To me, that’s the most positive outcome I’ve seen so far. And I hope it continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Followers of the movement believed Q must be someone high up in Trump’s inner circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has not independently verified Q’s identity, but Hoback’s film shows strong evidence that Ron Watkins was Q. He’s not someone particularly special and didn’t have any real ties to Trump, but he is someone who had access and motive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that by revealing the mechanics behind Q and the personalities behind it,” Hoback said, “that they see that it really is just this kind of absurd cast of characters that created this massive global movement and that it is not this sort of scary mystery box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement grew so large that QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed openness to Q\u003c/a>” even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\">won\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901628541/qanon-supporter-who-made-bigoted-videos-wins-ga-primary-likely-heading-to-congre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seats\u003c/a> in Congress, where they continue to spread misinformation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The day itself, I found to be rather nerve-wracking. I think anybody who had really been tracking what was going on could see that this was the moment in which those power players who had been circling around Q, whether that’s Roger Stone, [retired Maj.] Gen. [Paul] Vallely, [retired] Gen. [Michael] Flynn, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, all of these guys, they were all prodding in the runup to Jan. 6 in a way to make the Q narrative real. And there were these overlapping groups that were all driving toward something similar. So I think if you were tracking it closely, you probably would have thought like myself that it was going to be even worse than it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much fault do you think Ron and Jim deserve for that day? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don’t think Jan. 6 happened because of Q, but I also don’t think it would have happened without Q.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How interconnected was Trump world and Q?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I would like for there to be more investigation into the ties between Ron and Jim and some of these power players in D.C.—Gen. Flynn and these other characters. I mean, we’ve seen some forensic evidence, and certainly after the 2016 election, it stands to reason that, given the amount of traffic 8chan was turning to Trump’s own campaign, that they would have reached out. I think the series paints a pretty good case for their ties to these D.C. operatives. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s plenty of disturbing content that stays with you long after watching \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/tina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TINA\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, HBO’s new documentary about Tina Turner’s life and career. There’s the searing descriptions of the violence inflicted on her by her first husband and collaborator, Ike Turner. There’s the eyewitness accounts of the abuse, including a particularly heartbreaking story from Tina’s late son, Craig. And there’s Tina’s own recounting of both her suicide attempt and ultimate escape, carrying only 34 cents and a Mobile gas card in her pocket. It all makes for extremely tough viewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something unexpected in \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> is, in some ways, even harder to tolerate. And it’s the sound of a woman being forced to repeatedly—and reluctantly—recount the worst things that have ever happened to her. It’s the sound of a woman being defined throughout the decades not by her own talents or worldwide fame, but rather by the monster she escaped before the most successful portion of her career had even begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, of course, joy in the two-hour film. It’s in stunning live performances, TV appearances, and the sweet relationship Turner has with her current husband, Erwin Bach. It’s also present in the inspiration Tina Turner has provided to other survivors of domestic violence throughout the decades. But \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> ultimately leaves the viewer with a serious moral conundrum. Are we willing to sacrifice the emotional and mental well-being of our musical icons for the sake of our own comfort and—even more uncomfortably—entertainment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IkVtLvflU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of how the press and public has demanded Turner endlessly revisit her past weaves throughout \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em>. We hear clips from her very first interview about Ike’s abuse, for a story originally printed in the Dec. 7, 1981 edition of \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “I was living a life of death,” she told then-music editor, Carl Arrington. “I didn’t exist. But I survived it. And when I walked out, I walked. And I didn’t look back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington recalls in \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> that “she wanted to just tell it and then forget it. It didn’t quite work out that way.” [aside postid='arts_13890087']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrington’s understatement is writ large throughout the rest of the film, as we see Turner tolerate—and politely answer—question after (often inane) question about her ex-husband. She often laughs when his name comes up, but the interviews are transparently, consistently painful for her. Her grace and patience under fire is thoroughly impressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> explains that Turner’s tell-all book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568429.I_Tina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>I, Tina\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (co-written by Kurt Loder) came about as part of the ongoing effort to preempt questions about Ike. As her success exploded after the 1984 album \u003cem>Private Dancer\u003c/em>, Turner was besieged once more with queries about her abuser. “They’d bring up the same old stuff, over and over in every interview,” Turner’s manager Roger Davies recalls in the film. “We couldn’t stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner remembers, “Out of all the success I was having, why are they talking about Ike and Tina? I said to Roger, ‘I’m beginning to get really very depressed.’ And he said, ‘Well the only thing you can do is write a book.’ … I wasn’t interested in telling that ridiculously embarrassing story of my life. But I felt that’s one way I could get the journalists off my back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I, Tina\u003c/em> was an instant worldwide best seller. But it did the opposite of end the chatter. Nowhere is this more obvious in \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> than during a clip from a 1993 Venice Film Festival press conference for \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108551/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>What’s Love Got to Do With It?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—the biopic based on the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a journalist asks Turner what she thinks of the movie, she replies that she hasn’t yet seen it. When subsequently asked, “Why not?” Turner visibly stiffens, awkwardly fiddles with her microphone, and replies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am not so thrilled thinking about the past and how I lived my life. The story was actually written so I would no longer have to discuss the issue. I don’t love that it’s always talked about, you see … This constant reminder is not so good, you know. I’m not so happy about it. So, do I want to sit at a screen and watch the violence and all the brutality? No. That’s why I haven’t seen it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Turner’s husband, Erwin Bach, does not sugarcoat matters when talking about the effect these kinds of questions have had on his wife during their 33 years together. “When you talk to journalists over and over and over, for 20, or 30, or 40 years,” Bach says, “memories come back. She has, partly, dreams about it. They’re not pleasant. So I think these are the things that come back to her when she opens that book. It’s like when soldiers come back from the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Turner has to re-state her position on the matter at the start of \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em>. “It wasn’t a good life,” she says. “It was in some areas, but the goodness didn’t balance the bad. So it’s not wanting to be reminded. You want to just leave that in the past. I don’t like to pull out old clothes. It’s old memories. You want to just leave that in the past and be done with it.” [aside postid='arts_13892800']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> is careful to give focus to the good that’s resulted from Turner’s lifetime spent reliving her trauma for the public. Fans are seen expressing gratitude for it. Playwright Katori Hall says of Turner’s life, “That story reached so many people who felt like they had to keep their secrets locked away, deep down.” And Turner’s friend Oprah Winfrey notes, “Nobody talked about sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse—abuse, period. Our generation is the generation that started to break the silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt that the insights Turner offers here, via old interviews, do offer revelations about how people become trapped in domestic abuse situations. “I felt obligated to stay there and I was afraid,” Turner says of her marriage and early career. “I felt very loyal to Ike and I didn’t want to hurt him. Sometimes after he’d beat me up, I’d end up feeling sorry for him. I was 23 years old or something like that. Early 20s. I was brainwashed. I was afraid of him. And I cared what happened to him. I knew that if I left, there was no one to sing. So I was caught up on guilt and fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the end, it’s impossible to leave \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> without a sense of enthralled awe. That’s not just because of Tina Turner’s personal resilience, it’s because of the sheer power of her vocals, her dancing, her talent, her focus and her unerring self-belief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the movie is also an important reminder that, as a public, we must learn to honor the struggle of survivors without primarily defining them by it—especially if they’re asking over and over again to be allowed to move on. \u003cem>TINA\u003c/em> reminds us that being inspired by other people’s battles shouldn’t require those sources of inspiration to repeatedly re-live their darkest days. 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While attending Ithaca College in New York, she began work on her first film, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theproviderfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Provider\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which follows Dr. Shannon Carr as she performs abortions in Texas in the midst of a heated battle for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That film led to another, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mayamcueva.com/#/gipfel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On The Divide\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which looks at the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border; the film is currently in production. Between creating those films, she’s produced an animated film about her father’s immigration experience to the U.S. from Peru, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayamcueva.com/#/schwane/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Only the Moon/ Solamente La Luna\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And earlier this month Cueva debuted \u003ca href=\"https://www.futureoffilmisfemale.com/ale-libre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ale Libre\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. This story follows reproductive rights organizer and undocumented activist \u003ca href=\"https://keepalefree.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alejandra Pablos\u003c/a> in her fight against deportation. The film recently debuted at the Big Sky Doc Fest, and later this month will be showing at the San Diego Latino Film Festival, Salem Film Festival and the Thin Line Fest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNZm1jMjkg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBelow are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Maya Cueva.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What are you working on right now?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya: I’m working on a feature documentary that I’ve been working on for six years, actually. It’s a film called, On The Divide. It’s following three people who are all Latinx, who are connected to the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border in McAllen,Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Six years in the making, that’s a marathon. How do you stay focused on one topic for so long?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya: What really keeps me focused is the idea that access is really, really dire. In a community like McAllen… for undocumented women trying to get access, it’s really hard because they have to travel through border checkpoints in order to get to the nearest clinic That’s 250 miles away from them. So if this clinic were to close, there would be virtually no access for for women or patients who are undocumented and are seeking abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: You mentioned immigration and how that plays a role in covering abortion. But also you’ve done work specifically about immigration. Can you talk to me a little bit about the film, Ale Libre?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya: I actually came across Ale’s story when I came across a petition asking for her release from the ICE Detention Center. I kind of just started doing research on her and I came across all of her work as an organizer. She’s a reproductive rights organizer as well as an immigrants rights organizer. 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I can get a camera and I can interview you and ask you certain questions but ultimately, your voice is the one that needs to come through and shine through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya: I think an example is when I was first approaching the abortion clinic that I’m following in my feature, I asked the communications director ‘I feel like a lot of news media comes in here and they want to tell a certain story but what is the story you feel is missing?’ And she was like, ‘oh, no one’s ever asked me that before.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya: I don’t ever want to come into a space — a community that maybe I identify with, but I’m not a part of — and think that I’m an expert.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525818/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Debbie Lum\u003c/a>’s new documentary \u003ca href=\"https://tryharderfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Try Harder!\u003c/em>\u003c/a> begins by underscoring popular beliefs about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/school/lowell-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lowell High School\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nationally ranked San Francisco public high school is highly competitive (“Lowell is the ultimate self-confidence crusher!”); the students are excellent at multitasking (“I’m the captain of the tennis team. 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She blurted out to her classmates that her mom would be upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891901\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891901 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46895_TRY_HARDER__Photo3-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Virginia Marshall, President of the San Francisco Alliance of Black School Educators and Co-chair of San Francisco African American Honor Roll with honor student Rachael Schmidt in a scene from Try Harder! directed by Debbie Lum. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Try Harder! 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The director began her work on the documentary not long after nearly 30 students staged a walkout protesting racism at the school in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Lum wasn’t surprised to hear the news about the posting of anti-Black and anti-semitic slurs on a school-sponsored messaging platform last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a problem at Lowell,” Lum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, San Francisco board of education president \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/board-of-education/board-president-gabriela-lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriela Lopez\u003c/a> says Lowell often gets media attention because of its national profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a high school that a lot of people know and pay attention to,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says the prestigious institution is by no means the only local public school grappling with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it be in our virtual space, whether it be in our physical classrooms, this is not the first time, unfortunately, that it’s happened,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891902 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-800x607.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-1020x774.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-768x583.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current Lowell senior Justine Orgel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Justine Orgel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Current Lowell High School senior Justine Orgel is part of a group of students that publicly condemned last week’s racist attacks. 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The director began her work on the documentary not long after nearly 30 students staged a walkout protesting racism at the school in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Lum wasn’t surprised to hear the news about the posting of anti-Black and anti-semitic slurs on a school-sponsored messaging platform last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a problem at Lowell,” Lum says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, San Francisco board of education president \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/board-of-education/board-president-gabriela-lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriela Lopez\u003c/a> says Lowell often gets media attention because of its national profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a high school that a lot of people know and pay attention to,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says the prestigious institution is by no means the only local public school grappling with racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it be in our virtual space, whether it be in our physical classrooms, this is not the first time, unfortunately, that it’s happened,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13891902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13891902 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-800x607.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-1020x774.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190-768x583.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/RS46893_Justine-Orgel-qut-e1611797143190.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current Lowell senior Justine Orgel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Justine Orgel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Current Lowell High School senior Justine Orgel is part of a group of students that publicly condemned last week’s racist attacks. She says the school’s exclusive admissions policy based on test scores is at least partly to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have this lack of representation of Black students, Hispanic students,” Orgel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anger around racial disparities has also been exacerbated by the school board’s decision last fall to temporarily admit next year’s freshman class at Lowell using the lottery system it uses for other local schools, rather than relying on the selective grades and testing evaluation for which Lowell’s known. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/14894617/billie-holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billie Holiday\u003c/a>‘s life and artistry have been analyzed, scrutinized, interpreted and embellished more than any other jazz singer in history. But the first biographer to fully immerse herself in the world of Lady Day was a New York journalist and avid Holiday fan named Linda Lipnack Kuehl. For some eight years in the 1970s, Kuehl interviewed everyone she could find who had a personal association with Holiday—musicians, managers, childhood friends, lovers and FBI agents among them. Then, before she could finish her biography, Kuehl died: In 1978, her body was found on a Washington, D.C. street. Her death was ruled a suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889923\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13889923\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-12.08.21-PM.png\" alt=\"Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who spent eight years trying to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday.\" width=\"270\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-12.08.21-PM.png 270w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-12.08.21-PM-160x124.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linda Lipnack Kuehl spent eight years trying to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Kuehl family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kuehl left behind a trove of notes, transcripts and some 200 hours of interviews on cassette tapes—mostly in shoeboxes, some labeled, some not. That archive is where director James Erskine first began pulling together the story Kuehl was never able to finish. His new documentary, \u003cem>Billie (\u003c/em>out Dec. 4 on VOD and in select theaters), is about both Holiday—as told through the voices of people who knew her—and Kuehl’s obsession with crafting her biography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to write something that is real,” we hear Kuehl tell one of her interviewees in the film, “that is really Lady Day, and people who don’t see her in any sentimental way, you know? Really, as she is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erskine describes Kuehl as “a brilliant interviewer” who tracked down everybody from various stages of Holiday’s life. “What was extraordinary was it felt like an archaeological journey,” he says, “because it felt like we were excavating voices lost to the past.” Those now-deceased jazz voices include Count Basie, Charles Mingus, John Hammond, Jo Jones and Sylvia Syms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She excited me with just three notes,” drummer Roy Harte tells Kuehl. “She looked like a panther. It’s the only way I can describe it. With the most unbelievable face in the world,” marvels Syms, singer and Holiday’s friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give the documentary a cohesive structure—and to make sense out of the 200 hours of interview material—Erskine says, “We had a discipline that people speaking in the film should only be speaking about an event that they actually witnessed … because otherwise the material was just sort of overwhelming\u003cem>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKimh-iPd_0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of most provocative moments in the documentary is Kuehl speaking with Jones, a jazz drummer who toured the country with Holiday when they were both in Basie’s band. Jones questions whether Kuehl, a white woman, is capable of understanding the racism they faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Billie Holiday didn’t have the privilege of using a toilet. The boys at least could go out in the woods,” Jones tells Kuehl. “You don’t know anything about it because you never had to subjugate yourself to it. Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://afamstudies.columbia.edu/content/farah-jasmine-griffin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farah Jasmine Griffin\u003c/a>, author of \u003cem>If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday,\u003c/em> Kuehl’s interview with Jones is “extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found his passion, his truth-telling, all of his wisdom … his honesty, his courage—I found him so compelling,” Griffin says. “And I was very happy that the filmmakers gave him as much space as they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film reaffirms some oft-told legends about Billie Holiday: She could curse up a storm; had affairs with men and women (according to some, Tallulah Bankhead among them); liked to get high from cannabis, heroin and cocaine; and often surrounded herself with men who treated her horribly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re also reminded that when Holiday sang “Strange Fruit,” she was “fighting inequality before Martin Luther King, Jr,” as Mingus puts it. (Holiday sang the haunting indictment of lynching to white and Black audiences as early as 1939.) Mingus tells Kuehl, “That might be why the cops were against her. Not just junk”—alluding to Holiday’s arrest, in 1947, for narcotics possession, another event in Holiday’s life that Kuehl probed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her interview with Jimmy Fletcher, the narcotics agent assigned to conduct surveillance of Holiday, Kuehl asks him whether a big star like Holiday “would have been a target because it would have been a lot of publicity for an agent.” Fletcher concedes, “Well, not just for an agent. For the Bureau of Narcotics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Erskine, Kuehl’s tireless efforts to uncover the truth about Holiday lead to all kinds of revelations. “You certainly get the sense that the more interviews Linda did, the closer she did get to this sort of underground, seedy world,” he says. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Thursday, Nov. 12, the obituary section of \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>gave prominent space to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/tom-metzger-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Metzger\u003c/a>, a neo-Nazi and the founder of the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Above the 1,000 word obituary, Metzger was presented in a black and white photo from 1980, sitting behind a desk, quietly examining paperwork. It was an image so unremarkable it took me a full minute to notice the shotgun propped up on the California flag behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\"> The very next day, \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> granted serial killer Peter Sutcliffe—who mutilated and murdered at least 13 women and girls (police suspect the number is higher)—\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/13/peter-sutcliffe-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a lengthy obituary\u003c/a>. At 1,150 words, it was accompanied by a large black and white photo of Sutcliffe wearing a suit. (This photo choice at least had the decency to involve the back of a police van.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt that the deaths of both of these men warranted news reports. And outlets like Sky News (which presented Sutcliffe’s death through a lens that focused on his \u003ca href=\"https://news.sky.com/story/yorkshire-ripper-serial-killer-peter-sutcliffe-has-died-12131042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victims first\u003c/a>) and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-race-and-ethnicity-oregon-california-portland-423e3e8fff78b45a39a7353f1a6702df?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AP\u003c/a> (which took the time to name \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Seraw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mulugeta Seraw\u003c/a>, the Black man whose murder Metzger was found legally liable for) have proven such reports can give dignity to the victims of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the format of the newspaper obituary focuses on the individual who has died. It’s that format that permitted \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> to wait 20 paragraphs before mentioning Seraw by name. And it’s why \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> named only two of Sutcliffe’s victims after three full paragraphs about his schooling, family background and love life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> has repeatedly gone out of its way to present its obituaries section as hallowed, noble ground. Two years ago, it created “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html?mtrref=www.google.com&assetType=REGIWALL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Overlooked\u003c/a>,” a space in which the newspaper retroactively writes obituaries for significant figures that were deemed unworthy at the time of their deaths. “Since 1851,” the “Overlooked” homepage declares, “obituaries in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> have been dominated by white men. Now, we’re adding the stories of other remarkable people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Vanessa Gould’s 2016 documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVafxOpEReM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Obit\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the viewer is given a fly-on-the-wall look at the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>‘ obituary team in action. The staff is seen wrestling with fact-checking, deadlines and the task of figuring out whose lives to immortalize in their pages. The editorial staffers talk often in the film about who is “worthy” of their posthumous limelight, and approach the task with an unerring sense of respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really admire the people I write about generally,” journalist Douglas Martin says at one point. “It becomes a little love affair in a sense and they’re important to you. And I think you bring that feeling, that warmth that you develop over time to all these people.” [aside postid='pop_20585']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow writer Margalit Fox adds: “It’s almost never depressing because we’re almost always writing about someone… who has died after a long, rich, creative, fulfilling life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary does make clear that the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>‘ obituary subjects are not always chosen for being likable folks. “The one thing all the subjects have in common besides being dead,” reporter William Grimes says, “is that their lives had an impact of one sort or another. The word ‘impact’ is infinitely elastic. That impact can be of world-shaking importance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a difference between writing an obituary for world leaders who committed heinous acts, and writing them for people who are unremarkable outside of their capacity to commit evil. Neither Sutcliffe nor Metzger were elected officials, or born into prominence, or people who achieved greatness. Neither would they inspire any moral philosophizing, like the “Would I have done it in the same circumstances?” discussion in \u003cem>Obit\u003c/em> about the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> obituary for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/obituaries/01cnd-tibbets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the brigadier general who dropped the first atomic bomb\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, granting Sutcliffe and Metzger obituaries this lengthy, with photos, in prominent newspapers, gives them a legitimacy neither deserves. And while Sutcliffe is not the first serial killer to receive an obit in \u003cem>The Guardian—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/nov/16/guardianobituaries.ukcrime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Myra Hindley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/15/ian-brady-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Brady\u003c/a> both got one (Brady’s at least bothered to include the names of his victims)—the newspaper should have grown past the point of doing so by now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best practices in journalism are fluid and ever-changing. For example, after Anderson Cooper announced his decision to stop\u003ca href=\"https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2019/not-naming-mass-shooters-much-is-now-the-norm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> naming mass shooters\u003c/a> for fear of inspiring more, an increasing number of journalists followed suit. If you apply Cooper’s logic to print in 2020, at a time when America is visibly wrestling with racial justice issues, it’s baffling to consider why the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> would grant a Klansman the column space it just did. [aside postid='arts_13879768']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does anyone actually care that the Yorkshire Ripper was also “a keen reader [and] showed an interest in ceramics,” as reported in \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>? Do we gain anything from hearing that Metzger learned electronics in the army, as detailed in \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em>? It’s doubtful. In 2020, if a newspaper obituary section is having a quiet week, wouldn’t it make more sense to honor some of the 1,500 \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-nhs-deaths-healthcare-workers-covid-care-doctors-nurses-a9665386.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American\u003c/a> healthcare workers that have died on the COVID-19 frontlines?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The editors are besieged by people who don’t understand being a worthy person and a virtuous person does not make you a newsworthy person,” \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em> journalist William Grimes says in \u003cem>Obit\u003c/em>. “Often they’ll get a phone call from someone saying ‘My uncle subscribed to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> all his life and it was a religion for him. And it would just be so gratifying to the family if he could have an obituary.’ I’ll bet there’s 10 or 15 calls like that every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state of the world as it is, I for one would gladly read an obituary about a normal life well-lived over one about an evil doer. In the case of those who are newsworthy solely for deeds that have harmed others, a news report of their passing would surely suffice. Not only is the warmth and life detail inherent in obituary writing an ill fit for such people, it frequently is not something afforded to their victims.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The spine of the Steve James documentary series \u003cem>City So Real \u003c/em>is the 2019 campaign that led to Lori Lightfoot becoming mayor of Chicago. But the heart of it is the conviction that no single election, no matter how hard-fought and no matter how high-stakes, is the single cause of or cure for problems that are systemic and longstanding. Director Steve James (\u003cem>Hoop Dreams\u003c/em>, but also fine films like \u003cem>Life Itself \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Abacus: Small Enough To Jail\u003c/em>) may not have gotten the story he anticipated when he started, but the one he tells here has arrived right on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s Chicago mayoral race turned into a real scramble, particularly after Rahm Emanuel decided not to run for reelection. A large field of candidates scrapped to get on the ballot for the February race. Fourteen of them did. Of those, Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle advanced to a runoff, and Lightfoot became mayor in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James doesn’t begin with a deep examination of the election, though: He begins by introducing the city. His camera lingers on porches, at protests, at the enormous Bud Billiken Parade. And he begins to introduce you to mayoral candidates who, even in a huge city like Chicago, are working hard at the kind of one-on-one retail politics—shake a hand, have a cup of coffee—that might seem obsolete. These candidates are operating in a city that finds itself in crisis in a number of ways, all of which community activists and organizers have long been trying to address. 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It’s an immersive style that’s well-suited to longer formats like a five-plus-hour series, because rather than pointing to the subtleties of the city he’s profiling, as he might have to in a feature film, he lets them show themselves like a slowly developing photo in a darkroom, and that kind of filmmaking takes time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQ85DEVpbc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, when the story begins, Chicago is deeply divided over the trial of Jason Van Dyke, the police officer who would eventually be convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The shooting and the trial, as the film opens, are a wound, open and painful. Police violence is already the subject of large protests; the city’s handling of the video of McDonald’s shooting, which happened back in 2014, is as much a focus of public anger as the shooting itself. 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There’s a lot about \u003cem>City So Real \u003c/em>that reminded me of the work of Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated documentarian who makes long films that document sprawling systems by watching their small gears turning in close-up—he most recently made \u003cem>Ex Libris \u003c/em>about the New York City Public Library; \u003cem>Monrovia, Indiana \u003c/em>about a midwestern city in transition; and \u003cem>City Hall \u003c/em>about the city government of Boston. Wiseman has endless patience for spending, say, 20 minutes just watching a public hearing or a board meeting or a celebration of Veteran’s Day. While James doesn’t go that far, this is still a series about how small things are the engines driving big things, as much as the other way around. 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And the divides between residents of her city remain. A white guy waiting outside a barbershop that’s finally about to reopen after its pandemic closure is asked whether he’s been surprised by the unrest in the city. It doesn’t, he says casually. “That happens every time someone—one of them get killed. They riot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balance that’s so effective here is that James brings out the scale of the election—the money and the attention and the effort that’s involved in winning it — but then demonstrates that even this massive undertaking is a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of the systemic problems that need solving. The outcome of the mayoral election doesn’t do anything about racism on its own; it doesn’t do anything about police violence unless it leads to some other kind of change. 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"filters": [
"Any Region"
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},
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"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
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"error": null
},
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"isBot": true
}
}
