by Terry FitzPatrick | Mar 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last night’s best picture Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave was more that a tribute to powerful filmmaking. And the evening’s final acceptance speeches were more than ritual thanks to Hollywood insiders. The highpoint of the Oscar telecast became an awareness-raising...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Feb 2, 2014 | Slavery in the News
Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Ridley is concerned that moviegoers might miss a key lesson from the poignant script he wrote for the hit movie 12 Years a Slave. “As beautiful as this film is, one of the dangers is people will go in and say thank God we’re not like...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
These days, we’re used to the image of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a marble chair – at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. But another Lincoln chair is about to capture the public’s attention. It’s the bentwood Hickory chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he...
