HBO is making all nine episodes of Watchmen available to stream for free this weekend. The series is based on the classic comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, but the story has been adapted to, among other things, explore the history of systematic racism in the United States — and HBO is […]
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Daily Deals (6-11-2020)
Amazon isn’t quite giving away its Echo Dot smart speaker… but the company’s coming pretty close. You can buy one for 99 cents if you pay for a 1-month subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited. That means Prime members get an Alexa-powered smart speaker plus a month of commercial-free music for $9. If you’re not a […]
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Daily Deals (6-10-2020)
Ava DuVernay’s documentary movie 13th debuted on Netflix in 2016 and won an Emmy and earned an Oscar nomination. Now it’s available to stream for free on YouTube, no Netflix subscription required. The film examines the expansion of incarceration in the United States as a successor to slavery and Jim Crow, and the documentary is […]
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Daily Deals (6-08-2020)
This week most of the members of Minneapolis City Council agreed to start a process that would dismantle the city’s police department and explore ways to replace it with something new. The announcement comes in the wake of weeks of protest following the killing of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis police department, and […]
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Daily Deals (6-05-2020)
Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning was one of the best books I read in 2018. Now you can listen to it for free on Spotify. Kendi makes a strong case that history shows that racist ideas emerged as a way to justify racist policies rather than the other way around — and that only ending […]
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Daily Deals (6-03-2020)
The movie Just Mercy was released in late 2019, and now the film is available on most streaming platforms… and Warner Brothers has announced that it’s making the movie free to rent on all digital platforms during the month of June. Just Mercy is based on the true story of Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson’s […]