How blacklisted Hollywood artists joined forces to make a truly subversive film
Released in 1954, 'Salt of the Earth' was inspired by a 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico
Released in 1954, 'Salt of the Earth' was inspired by a 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico
After spending 12 years on the blacklist, Lee Grant found her path back to the screen through collaborations with Jewison and Lear
Comments dubbed antisemitic have prompted shake-ups in Hollywood
The Oscar winner, who survived the Blacklist to become a preeminent director and actor, knows the secret to her longevity
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
It started three years ago. I was the lone staff member welcoming guests to Jewish Museum Milwaukee (JMM) on an Air Show Sunday. It had been a pretty slow day. My office was filled with the droning of jet engines, and people who weren’t into watching the Blue Angels were avoiding the Milwaukee Lakefront. I…
The Jewish federation that the Forward exposed Wednesday as bankrolling the online blacklist Canary Mission now says it will no longer support the site. In a statement, the Jewish Community Federation of San Fransisco acknowledged that the Helen Diller Family Foundation, which it controls, made a $100,000 grant in 2016 to support the blacklist site,…
A new entry ban for the leaders of 20 international not-for-profit organizations puts Israel in the company of a group of mostly authoritarian nations that are cracking down on foreign nongovernmental organizations. Since 2006, restrictions on foreign NGOs have become increasingly prevalent worldwide, spreading from Russia to other authoritarian regimes, like China and Egypt, and…
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