Britain’s Young Black Actors Should Go To America, Says Top British Black Actor

David Harewood, Birmingham-born star of US cable series Homeland: “Unfortunately there really aren’t that many roles for authoritative, strong, black characters in this country. We just don’t write those characters, that’s a fact. … I would encourage, particularly young, black actors, to get to America … as quickly as they can.”

Israeli Nationalist Group Campaigns Against Arab-Israeli Actor

Im Tzirtu, an organization created after the second Lebanon war which “acts to strengthen and promote Zionist values in Israel”, is running pickets and media protests against a Tel Aviv theater’s engagement (to play Bernarda Alba!) of Mohammed Bakri, who made a controversial 2002 movie about the Israeli Defence Forces’ actions in Lebanon’s Jenin refugee camp.

India Art Fair Struggles To Join World Circuit

“Nothing is simple in India. Although the government had agreed to waive a customs levy on imports, there was still duty and 12.5% sales tax to be paid on anything bought at the fair, with the result that dealers were reserving rather than selling and concluding transactions out of the country. The organisers also had to contend with India’s notoriously obstructive and lackadaisical bureaucracy–for example, the road to the fair was only paved the day before it opened.”

Is It Time To Relax Grammar Rules In Digital Communication?

“Seventy-two percent of adult cell phone users send and receive regular text messages, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. The numbers rise to 87 percent for teens, who average 50 text messages a day. We’re not speaking into a microphone, but we’re certainly recording our thoughts in ways that make them both public and possibly eternal. So how careful should we be about our grammar?”

Chicago Mayor Asks City’s Libraries To Help Students

“In the summer months, our children, not just in the city of Chicago but across the country, lose about six months of their educational standards from one grade to the next,” Rahm Emanuel said at a City Hall news conference. “And one of the things I asked him to take on was to find that mission in the summer, how the Chicago Public Library can step into that void.”