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In Steve McQueen’s 4-hour Cannes Entry ‘Occupied City,’ Holocaust Past Meets Amsterdam Present

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — In Steve McQueen's “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous...

Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses Among the Millions of Nazism’s Victims

By Stacy M. Brown, Special to NNPA Newswire On January 27, the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of...

A Painful and Still-Present Memory: Honoring the Lives of Holocaust Victims

By Jaivon Grant, California Black Media For some, it may be hard to imagine barely escaping alive from one of the biggest mass genocides in...

There Once Were Three Black Popes– Will there be More?

By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Afro News With the recent death of retired Pope Benedict XVI, some little-known history of Black occupants of the papacy...

‘Untraditional’ Hanukkah celebrations are often full of traditions for Jews of color

By Samira Mehta, The Conversation Hanukkah, the Jewish “festival of lights,” commemorates a story of a miracle, when oil meant to last for one day lasted...

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