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‘Underground’ on WGN America: The Railroad Gets Real In Season 2

March 2, 2017 Lori Acken

WGN America’s acclaimed civil rights series Underground is about to teach you more about the heart and soul of Harriet Tubman than you ever learned in history class. In the final scene of Season 1, the famed abolitionist and humanitarian — played by Under the Dome’s Aisha Hinds — encountered Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s escaped slave Rosalee, who’d been separated from her love, Noah (Hidden Figures‘ Aldis Hodge). This season Tubman is a fully realized force in the fractured world of the Macon 7, their allies and enemies. Embodying the civil rights icon, says Hinds, “elevated me in my spiritual life, it […]

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How Did This Happen? Spike Shares The Kalief Browder Story

March 1, 2017 Barb Oates

Kalief Browder’s story seems almost unimaginable in a country where we are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and have rights that guarantee us a speedy and public trial. In 2010, Kalief, a 16-year-old student from the Bronx who was on probation, was arrested for allegedly robbing a man. He denied the accusation. Never convicted of the crime, he was incarcerated for three years at one of our country’s worst jails — Rikers Island. At Rikers he was physically and mentally abused, while outside the walls the penal system continued to delay his due justice. He spent roughly two years in […]

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Comedy

Jane the Virgin Chapter 57 recap: The Proposal

February 27, 2017 StayTuned Staff

There’s nothing wrong with some girl power, but it looks like Jane needs to work on her gender bias on this week’s episode of Jane the Virgin.  She can start by allowing some men to have a say in her life, including her editor. That’s going to be difficult. Okay, is this editor a high school jock? Everything this guy seems to care about is related to sports and partying. I’m just as shocked as Jane when he tells her that he wants to see more obstacles in her novel. You know, the one she wrote about based on her […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases Feb. 27-March 5

February 27, 2017 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases Feb. 27-March 5 Allied In 1942 North Africa, an intelligence officer meets a French resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines and is immediately smitten. When they reunite in London, the couple are put to the test as some suspect there is more than meets the eye with this lovely woman. Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris (R, 2:04) 2/28 Doctor Strange Dr. Stephen Strange loses the use of his hands after a horrific accident. He finds Kamar-Taj, a mysterious enclave that is not just a healing center but is also on the front line […]

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‘When We Rise’: ABC’s Civil Rights Mini is Moving and Timely

February 21, 2017 Lori Acken

If you thought San Francisco in the ’70s was still about hippies and Haight-Ashbury, ABC’s powerful new miniseries When We Rise is an eye-opener. As the Haight fell into squalor, the city’s reputation as a haven for outsiders lingered, drawing a new faction of young people to the area — men and women who would change America in ways not even they could imagine. Their stories are told in When We Rise, a stirring, four-night miniseries from Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Rise weaves together the harrowing, hopeful journeys of real pioneering members of an evolving U.S. civil rights movement: […]