The men in these photographs are soldiers who were wounded in Iraq. Two of them were wounded in firefights. One was delivering ice. Another walked off into the desert on a bathroom break and stepped on a mine. One was wounded while blowing up a munitions dump. Two of the soldiers who look the least damaged are blind, far more damaged than the camera can record. Whatever they may feel about their condition now, these men tend to sum up our involvement in Iraq in simple, blunt phrases. Like this, from a double amputee: “The reasons for going to war were bogus, but we were right to go in there. Saddam was a bad guy.”
Returning from Iraq, the Damage Done.”
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MOLTEN GATE Fireworks explode over the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate its 75th anniversary on Sunday. (Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images via MSNBC)
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Whilst producing for Aviva at Crystal Palace athletics track. Lee met Dominique Tipper and Lashana Lynch, two of the stars of the upcoming film “Fast Girls”.
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…stars a multiracial cast, and centers on a street-smart runner who forms a rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy athlete…
more, plus trailer, here.
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“Next question… I’m so bored of answering that. Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said. I’d rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that’s it. Hopefully that’s it. The less I talk about being black, the better.”
-Idris Elba on the ‘shortage of roles for black actors.’
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“That’s politics. That’s the politics of outside New York and L.A. That’s the politics of race. We had a running joke where after every nomination, this one woman in the hair department would be so hurt, you know, “You guys were so good!” I was like “Janet, sorry, but you’re on a black show!” — Wendell Pierce is perfect (x)
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“It was crazy. We saw our audience get bigger and bigger, and then come the SAG awards, the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globes—nothing. We were like, “Well, what the fuck is going on?” And David Simon, he was so cool. He was like “Fuck the awards, I’m not about that. I’m about telling a good story.” He was on interviews, like, “We don’t need that.” And some of us, in the back of our heads were like, “Yo, stop sayin’ we!” — Andre Royo on the Emmy snubs (x)
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