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The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The imagery haunts, and the stench of slavery and racial oppression lingers through the 13 minutes of footage. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.

Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American Granta Magazine The Trouble with 'The Testament of Mary' May is the month in which the church honors Mary; by happy coincidence, it is also the month when secular culture honors mothers. According to the Bible, Mary’s role in salvation history is small but mighty. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, she conceives the Messiah, gives birth to Jesus and raises him to adulthood. Admittedly, this isn’t much to go on. A new, and highly unorthodox, depiction of Mary has been in the public eye of late, the Irish writer Colm Toíbín’s play “The Testament of Mary.” I greeted the publication of the novella with enthusiasm and attended the play as soon as I could get a ticket. And here is where Colm Toíbín lost me. Toíbín sins here against Scripture and tradition, yes, but also against the more universal code of Motherlove—that irresistible compulsion that drives a mother to protect her child at any cost. UPDATE: America contributor Rob Weinert-Kendt weighs in on the "The Testament of Mary" here.

Books News and Opinion on The Huffington Post How to change your view of Africa Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close... I once had coffee in Cape Town with a Cameroonian named Ntone Edjabe. He ran an English-language journal called Chimurenga, but what I remembered from our chat were his vignettes of Lagos (where he’d studied) and Johannesburg (where he went next). In Lagos, he said, you’d be driving down the highway and suddenly see a guy selling cars on the highway. I sent Edjabe some articles, but otherwise forgot about Chimurenga until a recent issue arrived in the mail. It’s also more surprising: I love well-off media types from New York or London, but by now we do tend to know how they think. Edjabe arrived in South Africa in 1993, instantly had his passport and money stolen, but stayed. On a Skype call, puffing on cigarettes, he recalls, “I printed 1,000 copies, which I carried around in my bag. His idea was to get Africans to write about Africa as they saw it. Chimurenga is rising.

Tattered Cover Read & Feed February: Love it or loathe it. Don’t gobblefunk around with words. Celebrate your freedom to read with us. Don’t be Absurd. Read Banned Books freely. Vintage ads promoting reading. "…the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory….” Yeah, that’s what happiness is make of. Books Berlusconi’s So-Called Bunga-Bunga Life By Barbie Latza Nadeau In a new authorized biography, ‘My Way,’ there’s an ‘awestruck’ Putin, the sick joke he and Gaddafi made famous—and the Italian playboy PM who remains as slippery as ever. Keep Reading Books Did CIA Director Order the Hit on JFK? By James A. 1519 Shares The Ladybird Book Covers: Grown-up Ed... By William Boot10.13.15 17 Shares U.K. By Tom Sykes10.13.15 50 Shares We’re Suckers for Hil’s Redemption Story By Gil Troy10.13.15 60 Shares How Hillary Remade Her Image By Gil Troy10.12.15 416 Shares Is ‘Artisanal’ Music the Next New Thing? By Ted Gioia10.11.15 3676 Shares Dolley Madison’s Killer Fish Croquettes By Ailsa von Dobeneck10.11.15 394 Shares My Cancer Is As Strange As My Fiction By Adrian Barnes10.11.15 1012 Shares Lou Reed: Dylan Is a ‘Pretentious Kike’ By Nico Hines10.10.15 16579 Shares When Smoking Was Fun By Luc Sante10.10.15 1295 Shares Meet Little Miss Overshare and Mr Selfie By Tim Teeman10.10.15 708 Shares President? By David Masciotra10.10.15 close

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