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NPR Here it is: a tour of Grand Staircase-Escalante. That is, a tour of the national monument's economic impact, the political cloud surrounding it — and what we can expect next, once that final call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke comes down.
105 months ago
MTV Remember Melina ?
107 months ago
The New Yorker “I wanted to show—this is black people,” Melina Matsoukas said about Beyoncé's “Formation” video. “We triumph, we suffer, we’re drowning, we’re being beaten, we’re dancing, we’re eating, and we’re still here.”
108 months ago
The New Yorker For Beyoncé's “Formation” video, Melina Matsoukas found ideas in the work of Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Octavia Butler.
109 months ago
The New Yorker “I wanted to talk about police brutality and talk about us dying and us being killed, but do it an artful way,” Melina Matsoukas said about Beyoncé's “Formation” video.
109 months ago
The New Yorker Melina Matsoukas had just returned home from a trip to Cuba when she was asked to direct the video for a Beyoncé song called “Formation.”
109 months ago
The New Yorker Black feminists have often been forced to pick between being politically black or politically female. “It’s an unfair struggle that only black women can understand and relate to,” Melina Matsoukas said.
109 months ago
The New Yorker “I wanted to show—this is black people,” Melina Matsoukas said about Beyoncé's “Formation” video. “We triumph, we suffer, we’re drowning, we’re being beaten, we’re dancing, we’re eating, and we’re still here.”
109 months ago
The New York Times Beyoncé rang about the "Formation" video. Melina Matsoukas then came up with a concept in the middle of the night.
111 months ago
NBC News "I don't know one president, one pope, one engineer, one sports giant, one astronaut, that could have done it without a teacher."
-Actor Edward James Olmos on the late Jaime Escalante
116 months ago
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