** "I can look in the mirror and know that many of my ancestors prayed, died, suffered and struggled, to see that one of us has the ability to express our experience through art - and also to be an inspiration for other young people to express themselves."

Love Beats Rhymes: A Conversation With RZA. The Wu-Tang Clan rapper, musician, actor, director and author discusses his latest film spotlighting the crossroads between poetry, hip hop, and black youth in search of identity in America, Love Beats Rhymes - starring Azealia Banks, Jill Scott, Lorraine Toussaint and Common. Rza describes filming musicians in a movie, in contrast to say, directing Russell Crowe in The Man With The Iron Fists - and what he sees as the enduring impact and legacy of hip hop in the music world.

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** "The truth is that when society is not held back by greed - real miracles can happen."

Ideology And Culture Corner: Socialism In Six Minutes. Journalist, political analyst, RT reporter, author and veteran activist of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, Caleb Maupin weighs in on, what would a socialist America look like? Conjuring crystal balls, fusion energy, the demolition of military adventurism, corporate bailouts, and foreign aid to criminal regimes - and mining the untapped potential of the millennial generation.

** "A sometimes comic, sometimes absurd look at the fissures on which tensions in post-Soviet Russia express themselves - and an antidote to the current 'othering' of the country."

Bro On The Global Television Beat: Arts Express Paris Correspondent, Sorbonne Professor Dennis Broe with his Top Ten plus five global television series and trends for 2017. Touching on Scandinavian noir, slave ships, a Shakespearean death, the Naples Mafia, the dark days of the Cold War, and 'the inhuman culture that surrounds the rampant greed of network television.'

** "And you just see this amazing woman who seems very modern to me - and I think femme fatales feel that way because they felt like they could go toe to toe with all these macho men."

UK Filmmaker Paul McGuigan Talks 'Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool.' The director best known for the extreme moviemaking of The Acid House, Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park and Victor Frankenstein, turns his attention this time around to a class and cultural contradiction steeped dramatic focus on the final days of the eccentric and tempestuous '40s film noir femme fatale star, Gloria Grahame, - depicted with raw and ravaged intensity on screen by Annette Bening. 

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