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A Timely Film in Chad Examines Abortion
“Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” by Chadian director-writer Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, is his first film with female leads. It’s a venture he takes to broach abortion, a subject that carries stigma and shame familiar to American audiences after the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade.

Critics Lash Back Against Reporter Who Wrote About Xenophobia
As journalists, feedback — solicited and unsolicited — is inevitable. When it comes to sensitive subjects like xenophobia in South Africa, the approach taken to cover it becomes that much more important.