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Filmmaker Mag: Five Questions with Water Warriors Director Michael Premo
By Paula Bernstein
I saw Water Warriors in February, just a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, during its world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.
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The Advocate: Why Black Gay Filmmaker Marlon Riggs Matters Now
By Charles Stephens
During the 1992 presidential primaries, Pat Buchanan, seeking the Republican Party's nomination, used an unauthorized clip from Tongues Untied to blast the National Endowment for the Arts and attack George H. W. Bush.
CPB: Statement on the President’s Budget Proposal Eliminating Funding for Public Media
By Patricia Harrison
There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services.
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Battle for the Net: Our Letter to the FCC
Protecting net neutrality is crucial to ensuring that the internet remains a central driver of economic growth and opportunity, job creation, education, free expression, and civic organizing for everyone.
Cosmo: Why It’s Important to Recognize That ‘Moonlight’ Was Robbed Of Its Moment
By Brittney Cooper
The Academy Awards did the best possible thing in the worst possible way last night, when it conferred Moonlight the Oscar for Best Picture.
TechCrunch: the Implications of the End of Net Neutrality
By Sergey Denisenko
When Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory to win the U.S. presidency, I—and many others who work in digital media—began to speculate about how the Trump administration might handle net neutrality.
BroadwayWorld: Arts Organizations on the Importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
By Alexa Criscitiello
The overall assumption regarding an interest in the arts seems to be one of partisan politics. Its value is an often-debated topic in a divided nation whose idealistic chasm grows wider by the day.