This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of film, Matewan, which tells the story of the fight to unionize the southern West Virginia coal fields nearly a century ago. Joel Beeson talks to filmmaker John Sayles about his return to West Virginia, and parallels in his film for […]
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Hours after white supremacists’ violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors killing one woman and leaving scores hospitalized, President Trump read a strategically vague, equivocal statement from his private golf club in New Jersey. He blamed “many sides” for the violence and […]
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