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Amma Asante Fearlessly Shines Bright Light on Hidden History

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Today is Amma Asante’s birthday! She is the first woman to receive the BUFF honorary award for her contribution to film and TV.
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Contributor reflects on ban, ‘Muslims are people’

My father is Jewish, my mother is Methodist, and when I was in high school my family opened up our home over the summer to an Indonesian girl named Astrid. Astrid was about the same age as I was. Throughout her stay with my family and I, we all discovered how much we had in common. There was one difference, though. Astrid just so happened to be Muslim.… read more.

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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016)

Based on the New York Times bestseller by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train  (adapted by screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson) follows “Rachel” (Emily Blunt), a self-pitying alcoholic who is the victim of a failed marriage. Her only reprieve is living vicariously through the “perfect” couple whose lives she spies on from her seat on the train.… read more.

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