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Hey. It’s Leila Fadel from Morning Edition. Right now, people are being killed in Sudan as two generals vie for political power. Three months before this conflict broke out, Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani finished filming Goodbye Julia, a film mostly set in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. Just two days before the conflict began on April 15, Kordofani flew to Beirut for sound design. Now, his film is a portrait of Khartoum before: before buildings were reduced to rubble, before looting, before fires and blasts and gun battles began. Kordofani’s film is a story of an unlikely friendship between two women whose paths would never have crossed had it not been for a death caused by racism. Mona is an upper-class Arab Muslim from Khartoum, and Julia is a southern Sudanese Christian trying to get by in the capital. The film is set in the years before South Sudan became independent, just as Sudan is emerging from an almost 22-year civil war. Kordofani uses the relationship between these two women to explore the ethnic, racial, tribal and religious divides that have fractured his country and led to conflict. The film is a dream about unity set in the reality of separation and bigotry. 🎧 Listen here. |
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Lakeisha Lee's and her family immediately contacted the police when her sister, Brittany Clardy, went missing, but they were brushed off. Clardy was later found murdered. For the past few years, Lee has led a task force in Minnesota dedicated to understanding why Black women go missing. Now, her state is creating the nation's first Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls. 🎧 Listen to how it can help Black women and their families, or read the story. |
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| Wildfires in the Canadian province of Québec have caused air quality across the Northeast U.S. to plummet, according to the National Weather Service. |
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| Whether you're at a comedy club or you're a medieval lord, a 15th century manuscript reveals comedy has remained similar through history. |
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This newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. |
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