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Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

Los Angeles Times

‘Emancipation’ review: Will Smith wins the Civil War, and a true story loses its authentic edge

Opening in select theaters this week before its Dec. 9 streaming premiere on Apple TV+, “Emancipation” is rated R for violence, and for “disturbing images and language.”

Chicago Tribune

Iran Sentences 4 People to Death for ‘Cooperating’ with Israeli Intelligence

Four people were sentenced to death on Wednesday by Iran's judiciary for allegedly cooperating with the Israeli intelligence service and committing kidnappings, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Tehran has long accused arch-enemy Israel of carrying out covert operations on its soil. It has lately accused Israeli and Western intelligence…

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Urine Isn't a "Noxious or Filthy Substance for Purposes of 1851 Massachusetts Vandalism Law"

In Commonwealth v. Narvaez, decided Tuesday by the Massachusetts high court, the defendant had allegedly deliberately "urinated on the floor both inside and outside of [his jail] cell": Based on the location of the toilet in the cell, the officer stated that "it [was] apparent that [the defendant] purposely urinated…

Reason

New Spanish law on locating Franco-era victims divides opinion

Almost five decades after the death of Spain's right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, the country is making a fresh attempt to offer justice to his victims. A new Democratic Memory law, which came into force in October, makes the state responsible for the search for tens of thousands of those forcibly…

France 24

Beirut 'neighbourhood watch' echoes troubled past

In the darkness of Beirut's unlit streets, men wielding batons and torches are taking security into their own hands in an initiative they hope will keep neighbourhoods safe but critics see as a worrying echo of Lebanon's troubled past.

Reuters

Former Ivory Coast militia leader Ble Goude returns home after exile

Charles Ble Goude, a former militia leader who was acquitted of crimes against humanity related to his role in Ivory Coast's civil war, returned from exile on Saturday as politicians sought to reconcile after years of instability and conflict.

Reuters

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Lincoln made a Thanksgiving plea for peace. Let’s now envision a world without war or hunger.

On Thanksgiving, as you enjoy time with family and great food, be an advocate for peace and unity for all.

Chicago Sun-Times

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022

The Independent UK

Patrick Thomson: the man who ‘helped save UK pensions’

The chair of the fund managers’ trade body says he has his army training to thank for the cool head he kept during the crisis sparked by the mini-budget

The Guardian - UK

COUNTERPOINT: Americans of every race deserve a fair shot; affirmative action provides one

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.

Tribune News Service

‘Traditions can change’: is it time to get rid of the Thanksgiving turkey?

Turkey shortages and inflation may make this the year to alter the holiday dinner, which was an unheard-of celebration until after the civil war

The Guardian - US

Progress made toward Stone Mountain truth-telling exhibit

ATLANTA — Monuments are subjective things.

Tribune News Service

Andor: how a Star Wars deep cut became one of the best TV shows of the year

With no Jedi or Skywalkers to be seen, this politically charged, slow-burn thriller adds human stakes and a real sense of the fascism behind Star Wars’s endless civil war

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Daily Mirror

Amazing story of 18-inch duelling dwarf who was loved by royals until he killed a man

Jeffrey Hudson might have only been 45cm tall but he wrote himself into history after fighting for the king in the English civil war and shooting a man dead during a duel

Asharq Al-Awsat

Analysts: Iran's 'Civil War' Warning May Presage Bloodier Crackdown

Iran has accused foreign foes of trying to spark "civil war" by stoking the protests over Mahsa Amini's death -- harsh language that, analysts warn, could presage an even bloodier crackdown.

ABC News

The Jungle and the Sea, follow-up to Counting and Cracking, uses theatre as a safe space to discuss Sri Lankan civil war

For years, Anandavalli stayed silent about her country's civil war but then her playwright son, S. Shakthidharan, started writing about it anyway. Now, she stars in his latest play.

Al Jazeera

Can new Spanish law lay the ghosts of the Civil War to rest?

‘Democratic Memory Laws’ bring some relief to families of General Franco’s victims, but much needs to be done, they say.

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The Conversation

How medieval Catholic traditions of thanksgiving prayers and feasting shaped the Protestant celebration of Plymouth's pilgrims

President Abraham Lincoln instituted the celebration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863 after the Union victory at the battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War. It was not a new idea – in 1789, President George Washington had proposed a yearly presidential proclamation of each annual Thanksgiving…

The Guardian - AU

The Jungle and the Sea review – Sri Lankan civil war drama lifts joy above trauma

Play by the creators of the Helpmann-winning Counting and Cracking shows people living and loving despite danger, but sometimes minimises the horrors

Reuters

Analysis-Libya's festering crisis risks slide back to war

As its political stalemate festers, Libya risks sliding back towards civil war with diplomacy at a standstill, politicians thwarting progress towards elections and military leaders including eastern commander Khalifa Haftar threatening violence.

Reuters

Iran accuses Israel, Western spy services of plotting Iranian civil war

Iran on Thursday accused its-arch enemy Israel and Western intelligence services of plotting to start a civil war in the Islamic Republic, now gripped by some of the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 revolution.

Axios

GOP leadership under siege as civil war spills into public view

McCarthy and McConnell have both been drawn into ugly battles for control over their respective conferences.

Salon

GOP will regroup — but this win was big

Longtime Democratic insider on why the "red wave" evaporated, and why the GOP civil war is great news for America

Reuters

El Salvador court frees Army officer behind Jesuit massacre

A Salvadoran court released a retired high-ranking Army officer convicted of ordering the massacre of six Roman Catholic priests belonging to the Jesuit order during the brutal peak of the country's civil war decades ago, his lawyer said on Monday.

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