The cast of The Diplomat describes the second season as all about pressure. Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum spoke with cast members ahead of the second season to understand more about the characters and the higher stakes they’re facing. Keri Russell, who plays U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kate Wyler, said that […]
But the security going up around the Hennepin County courthouse, City Hall and the jail — all in the heart of downtown — is extraordinary. It includes three rings of concrete barriers, two topped by chain-link fencing with a trough in between filled with coils of razor wire. The innermost fence is topped with barbed […]
A half-century after their deaths, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X remain two of the world’s most revered political activists. They were both respected leaders of the American Civil Rights movement, struggling for racial equality and freedom. But at the start of the 1960s, the media were constructing a conflict that stirred the civil […]