Last Week, Pbs Broadcast “Birth Of A Movement,” A Film

Last week, PBS broadcast â€Å"Birth of a Movement,† a film about the battle between William Monroe Trotter, a firebrand African-American publisher born a few years after the end of the Civil War, and D. W. Griffith, the filmmaker responsible for the racist classic â€Å"Birth of a Nation.† Trotter, a contemporary of W. E. B. Du Bois, was a Boston native and graduate of Harvard University, and an uncompromising advocate for racial equality, if a bit of a loose cannon. Trotter’s contempt for the accommodationist response to Southern racism championed by, among others, Booker T. Washington culminated in his incitement of a riot when Washington attempted to give an address in Boston. The pivotal conflict of his career, however, was his attempt to†¦show more content†¦Last year, Yiannopoulos was permanently banned from Twitter for his role in a campaign of racist, sexist harassment directed at Leslie Jones, a â€Å"Saturday Night Live† cast member. Wh en Twitter suspended his account, Yiannopoulos denounced it as â€Å"cowardly† and declared himself a martyr for the cause of free speech. Twitter, he said, was â€Å"a no-go zone for conservatives.† The tacit admission that Yiannopoulos sees targeted abuse of a female African-American comedian as â€Å"conservative† is revealing, if only in that it strips away the fig leaf of euphemism separating the alt-right from the hive of racism and sexism that defined last year’s Presidential election. That it was the Berkeley College Republicans who invited him to campus further supported this association. No chemistry department would extend an invitation to an alchemist; no reputable department of psychology would entertain a lecture espousing phrenology. But amid the student conservatives at Berkeley—and along the lecture circuit where he is a sought-after speaker—Yiannopoulos’s toxic brew of bigotries apparently meets their standard for cr edibility. And this recognition is as big a problem as anything he has said in his talks or in his erstwhile existence as a Twitter troll. An even more disturbing element of the Jones incident lay inShow MoreRelatedProduct Placement10682 Words   |  43 PagesRecent scholarship in film and media studies has drawn attention to the fact that product placement was a common feature of many of the earliest actualities and cinematic attractions that characterised the first ten years of cinema history [7] [8] [edit] Placement in movies Recognizable brand names appeared in movies from cinemas earliest history. Before films were even narrative forms in the sense that they are recognised today, industrial concerns funded the making of what film scholar Tom GunningRead MoreProduct Placement10670 Words   |  43 PagesRecent scholarship in film and media studies has drawn attention to the fact that product placement was a common feature of many of the earliest actualities and cinematic attractions that characterised the first ten years of cinema history [7] [8] [edit] Placement in movies Recognizable brand names appeared in movies from cinemas earliest history. Before films were even narrative forms in the sense that they are recognised today, industrial concerns funded the making of what film scholar Tom GunningRead MoreContemporary Issues in Management Accounting211377 Words   |  846 PagesRobin Cooper is Professor in the Practice of Management Accounting at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He is an expert on the design and implementation of strategic cost systems. He was a founder of the activity-based cost system movement and is an expert in Japanese cost management techniques such as target and Kaizen costing. He has authored several books, seventy articles, and fifty teaching cases. He is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Cost Management. James Jianxin GongRead MoreInnovators Dna84615 Words   |  339 Pagesexperimenting by employees. Our chapters on building the innovator’s DNA in your organization and team describe how you too can actively encourage and support others’ innovation efforts. Why the Ideas in This Book Should Matter to You Over the last decade, many books on the topic of innovation and creativity have been written. Some books focus on disruptive innovation, such as Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution. Others, such as Ten Rules for StrategicRead MoreBrand Building Blocks96400 Words   |  386 Pagescustomers or recapture old ones. A promotion, for example, which provides an incentive to try a new flavor or new use will be more effective if the brand is familiar, and if there is no need to combat a consumer skeptical of brand quality. Second, the last four brand equity dimensions can enhance brand loyalty. The perceived quality, the associations, and the well-known name can provide reasons to buy and can affect use satisfaction. Even when they are not pivotal to brand choice, they can reassure,