- 1. Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
- (Movies)
- ... with the release of Clemency, that the writer-director got the praise she deserves. Starring Alfre Woodard, the film follows a prison warden’s re-evaluation of the nature of her job in the days leading ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 2. Today Is The 65th Anniversary of Emmett Till's Lynching—Days After The Shooting of Jacob Blak
- (Feminism)
- ... and Mobley’s work telling his story will be directed by Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu. Production is scheduled to start in 2021, coinciding what would have been Till’s 80th birthday. “I am deeply ...
- Created on 28 August 2020
- 3. Elizabeth Warren And Ayanna Pressley Advocate For Reduced Prison Population In Light of Coronavirus
- (Feminism)
- ... — The Appeal (@theappeal) March 20, 2020 Pressley and Warren are urging Trump to use his power of executive clemency – the power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in state ...
- Created on 24 March 2020
- 4. Week(s) Of Women: December 20, 2019 – January 2, 2020
- (Entertainment)
- ... is here: Greta Gerwig’s take on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, starring everyone from Saoirse Ronan to Laura Dern to Meryl Streep. In theaters December 25. Clemency Alfre Woodard stars as a prison ...
- Created on 19 December 2019
- 5. BUST's 10 Best Bets for Winter 202
- (Entertainment)
- ... flick opens December 20. 2. Clemency Paul Sarkis/NEON Written and directed by rising star Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency stars Alfre Woodard as a prison warden reckoning with the trauma of carrying ...
- Created on 03 December 2019
- 6. At 16, Cyntoia Brown Was Sentenced To Life In Prison For Killing The Man Who Bought Her For Sex. 15 Years Later, She'll Finally Be Set Free
- (Feminism)
- On Monday morning, January 7th, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam granted Cyntoia Denise Brown clemency. Brown was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for killing Johnny Mitchell Allen, who bought her ...
- Created on 07 January 2019
- 7. Cyntoia Brown's Case Shows Just How Broken The US Justice System I
- (Feminism)
- ... her fellow inmates. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is currently reviewing Brown’s most recent clemency petition and he is expected to make a decision before he leaves the governor’s office in January. ...
- Created on 12 December 2018
- 8. Brie Larson Calls For More Inclusive Film Criticism, Fewer 40-Year-Old White Dudes Reviewing "A Wrinkle In Time": Link Roundu
- (Feminism)
- ... Kardashian West Talks About Her “Mission” To Free Alice Johnson Recently, the TV star met with Trump about granting clemency to Alice Johnson, who was given a life sentence for a nonviolent offense in ...
- Created on 14 June 2018
- 9. Obama Commuted Chelsea Manning's Prison Sentence Just Days Before Leaving Offic
- (Feminism)
- ... clemency citing the fact that her life was in danger being the only transgender woman in an all-male prison. In case you forgot the details of the case, here’s a quick overview: While stationed as an ...
- Created on 18 January 2017
- 10. Spring Valley Cop To Be Fired, But Can’t Be Racist – “He Has Been Dating An African American Female For Some Time Now”
- (General)
- ... female for some time now,” which, apparently, grants one a lifetime of clemency for all things racially motivated. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, Fields has two separate federal lawsuits against him: a ...
- Created on 28 October 2015
- 11. Georgia Woman's Lethal Injection Delayed Again, This Time Due To Cloudy Drug
- (General)
- ... for Gissendaner, whose original execution was scheduled for February 25th, but was similarly deferred due to a winter storm. The Pardons and Paroles board denied her lawyers’ request for clemency last ...
- Created on 03 March 2015
- 12. Iranian Child Bride Razieh Ebrahimi Faces Execution
- (General)
- ... to execute child offenders in the last five years, the group says. This month, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay joined with Razieh’s lawyer in appealing for clemency. She released ...
- Created on 29 June 2014
- 13. Clemency from the Church of St. Vincent
- (Music)
- This past weekend marked the final string of performances of the U.S. leg of St Vincent’s Strange Mercy tour and Mercy us, is BUST glad to have made it to one of the shows. For those who haven’t ...
- Created on 07 November 2011
