The Lottery

Filmmaker Raymond Gayle

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The Lottery
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: The four elementary students shadowed in The Lottery are among thousands of hopefuls who enter the Harlem school lottery for a chance to attend one of the district’s charter schools. This compelling documentary, from first-time filmmaker Madeleine Sackler, examines this luck-of-the-draw admission process and the disparity between these charter schools and students …
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Video: Talking Volumes with Nora Ephron
Author and filmmaker Nora Ephron talks with Kerri Miller about Ephron’s ability to remember things during Talking Volumes at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Nov. 17, 2010.
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Bruce Lee Movie Approved by ‘Pleased’ Family
The martial arts star’s siblings and relatives are happy with the way director Raymond Yip portrays him because it is close to what really happened.
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Brazil’s Blacks Celebrate a Day of Racial Consciousness
RIO DE JANEIRO—Celebration of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day began early, just after dawn. Afro-Brazilian community and religious leaders climbed the pyramid at the base of the statue of Zumbi dos Palmares, the country’s most important black hero, and ceremoniously began…
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