Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE SpeakersCornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, visited the University of Oklahoma late last week. He was on campus to take part in OU’s Presidential Speaker Series in a point/counterpoint discussion, “Saving America: Conflicting Views in Civil Dialogue,” with his Princeton colleague Robert P. George. Dr. West graciously sat down with me before that conversation to take part in the following exchange for World Literature Today. The following excerpt concluded our conversation.Hill: Brother West, I would like to…
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Women get lonely. Men do, too, but there’s something ineffably unique about female loneliness, which is more vulnerable and open to danger than the male version. Female bodies walk through the world as moving targets, rather than as weapons. Perhaps this is why writing on the loneliness of women has a particular haunted quality to it, and on the flip side, more urgency. The search for connection (romantic, platonic, or otherwise) has, for female bodies, higher stakes. Loneliness and the search for connection are major drivers for the characters of Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, my short story collection.…
Several multiplexes in Florida are seeing their final shows tonight before Hurricane Idalia hits the state in what’s expected to be a category 3 storm with surges of 15 feet on the state’s Gulf Coast side. Deadline hears that at least 24 cinemas are closing in Florida tonight including but not limited to AMC locations in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Orange Park and Regal sites in Ocala, Pinellas Place, and Gainesville. Many are looking to safely reopen on Thursday before Labor Day weekend which will bring the Sony hit, The Equalizer 3, set to make $30M-$40M over four days. The…
WASHINGTON — Increasing demand but decreasing budgets are putting a strain on NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), threatening its ability to provide communications for the agency’s science missions and Artemis lunar expeditions. While pressures on the DSN, a system of antennas located in Australia, California and Spain used primarily for communications with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, have been growing for years, the Artemis 1 mission and the demands it placed on the network laid bare the challenges NASA will face in the future, officials warned. “When Artemis comes online, everybody else moves out of the way, and it’s an impact…
Threads, Meta’s challenger to depose Twitter as the go-to platform for celebrities, companies and governments, is now available on the web as it seeks to revive its underwhelming launch.A web version of Threads is seen as key to attracting professionals and media types who are the most active users of social media and post mainly from their computers during working hours.”Threads.net is now live for everyone. Let us know what you think,” posted Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Thursday, who also leads Threads.Threads Web version is now livePhoto Credit: Threads/ @mosseriUntil now, Threads was accessible only as a mobile app…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a news conference at the Fulton County Government building in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023.Joshua Lott | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesThe Atlanta district attorney prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others asked a judge Tuesday to order that defendants granted so-called speedy trials be tried together.Fulton County DA Fani Willis also asked Judge Scott McAfee to set a deadline for defendants in the case to file requests to sever their cases. McAfee has discretion on whether to sever the cases for separate trials.So far,…
Play video content TMZ.com Jidenna and Team Wondaland have become quite the hedonists — a lifestyle the Classic Man wants everyone to know is not for the pushy or immature. TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Jidenna Tuesday at LAX, where he told us he’s excited about hitting the road with Janelle Monáe and his labelmates Flyana Boss, Nate Wonder and Nana Kwabena for The Age of Pleasure Tour … a concert that’s sure to expose a ton of skin!!! Jidenna will be performing cuts from his latest album “Me You & God” onstage … a project that’s making headlines…
In this articleTSLAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTSpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he speaks during his visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. Alain Jocard | Afp | Getty ImagesTesla has received a special order from federal automotive safety regulators requiring the company to provide extensive data about its driver assistance and driver monitoring systems, and a once secret configuration for these known as “Elon mode.”Typically, when a Tesla driver uses the company’s driver assistance systems — which…
Iconic actress Meryl Streep has been with her husband Don Gummer for over four decades, and they still sweep the red carpet together at big events every year. Streep has an incredible career spanning even longer than her marriage, and Gummer has been by her side the whole time. Most people don’t necessarily have a lot of info about the artist and father of Streep’s four children, despite how long they have been together.Ron Galella//Getty ImagesHere’s everything to know about Meryl Streep’s husband Don Gummer. Who is Don Gummer?Gummer is an accomplished artist with a bachelor’s degree from the Museum…
There was no relief at being home for Jamila and Trevante. That’s because both were still haunted by not knowing the fate of Casper on Invasion Season 2 Episode 2. It’s a shame since Jamila and Trevante went through so much to return to their families. Jamila was one of the standout characters of Invasion Season 1, the most mature among her classmates who were stranded when their bus crashed on the day of the invasion. She befriended the sickly, oft-bullied Casper, who had been crushing on her. They grew closer throughout the invasion crisis. Jamila was skeptical about what Casper…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (L) and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng pose for photographs before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2023.Andy Wong | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has left Beijing with a few deliverables: plans for formal discussions on export controls and tourism.”Now it’s more than just agreements to keep talking. It’s a specific channel to address commercial issues,” Raimondo told reporters late Tuesday as she was leaving the capital city for Shanghai.”I hope that this becomes a moment where we start to see…
In this articleCMCSAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTValerie Macon | Afp | Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — Christopher Nolan’s films, from “The Dark Knight” to “Inception,” have been a force at the box office for a solid two decades.But “Oppenheimer,” the director’s R-rated historical drama about the man who spearheaded the creation of the atomic bomb, has outpaced even the loftiest of expectations.As of Sunday, the dizzying, dialogue-heavy three-hour epic has generated around $300 million at the domestic box office, the fifth-most this year, and topped $777 million globally, the fourth-highest, since its July 21 debut. And it continues to draw…
by Trevor Kimball, August 26, 2023(Photo: Disney+) Lahela is going to have more time on her hands. Disney+ has cancelled the Doogie Kamealoha, MD series, so there won’t be a third season. A coming-of-age medical drama series, the Doogie Kamealoha, MD TV show stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Jason Scott Lee, Matthew Sato, Wes Tian, Emma Meisel, Mapuana Makia, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, and Milo Manheim. The story revolves around Lahela Kameāloha (Peyton Elizabeth Lee), a child prodigy who was nicknamed “Doogie” because of the 1990s Doogie Howser, MD series. She juggles her life as a teen with her early medical…
In a cold, cruel city indifferent to your fate, an acquaintance from your hometown can be a lifeline, as can the three guys you happen to bunk with. You feast on donkey burgers and rooftop views of the city. You watch your friends forced out of the city, then befriend others to take their place. These are the days of distraction for the young men in Xu Zechen’s Beijing Sprawl. The stories are razor-sharp, exuberant, and heart-rending, conveying so much life squeezed into the characters’ cramped circumstances. Living on the margins of Beijing, the young men dream about building cars,…
Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio Díaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upswings last week, with the former selling out for its best week take of $1,147,057 and the magician conjuring a big $2,717,000 to break the house record at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with an unusually busy 13-performance week. For its 10-day run, El Mago Pop grossed a whopping total of $3,341,826. Both El Mago Pop and Good Night, Oscar played their final performances on Sunday, August 27. Also of note: Funny Girl…
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The 72 data-transport satellites that the Space Development Agency plans to launch to orbit in 2026 will be the most complex yet, and will carry communications payloads that have never been deployed in low Earth orbit, a senior agency official said Aug. 29. These satellites, which make up the Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta portion of a U.S. military mesh network, have “new capabilities that we have not done before, including direct-to-weapon” communications, said Frank Turner, SDA’s technical director. Turner spoke at the ExecutiveBiz space technology conference. SDA split the $1.5 billion Tranche 2 Beta satellite…
Oppo Watch 4 Pro was launched on Tuesday in China as the company’s newest smartwatch, alongside the Oppo Find N3 Flip. The wearable sports a 1.91-inch curved LTPO AMOLED screen on a square dial. The company has launched the smartwatch in two colour variants — Breaking Dawn Brown and Extreme Night Black (translated from Chinese). It is equipped with Snapdragon W5 and Hengxuan 2700 chips, along with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The Oppo Watch 4 Pro watch is backed by a 570mAH battery, which is claimed to offer up to 14 days of battery life.Oppo Watch 4…
ReutersA street gang in Milwaukee, Wisc., allegedly stole millions of dollars in pandemic relief money that was then used to carry out a murder and purchase guns and drugs, among other items, according to a federal indictment.The 43-count indictment charges 30 members of the “Wild 100s,” also known as the “Shark Gang,” with a litany of crimes that include mail fraud, murder for hire, conspiracy to sell guns, illegal possession of firearms including a machine gun, and drug possession with intent to sell.The indictment was returned by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…