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O.J. Simpson’s murder trial unfolded nearly 30 years ago. Where are the key players now?
The June 12, 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman brought what’s dubbed the “Trial of the Century” that culminated with O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders. The announcement Thursday that Simpson is dead has brought renewed attention to the closely watched trial and the fascinating cast of characters who played a role in the case.
Here’s a look at where they are now.
The defendant
Two years after Simpson’s 1995 acquittal, a civil court jury found him liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and Goldman and ordered he pay their survivors $33.5 million. He got into a series of minor legal scrapes ranging from a 2001 Florida road-rage incident to racing his boat through a protected Florida manatee zone in 2002; he was acquitted for the former and fined for the latter.
His most serious transgression came in 2007, however, when he and five others barged into a Las Vegas hotel room with guns and seized property from memorabilia dealers that Simpson claimed to own. He served nine years in a Nevada prison and was paroled in 2017. In recent years, Simpson lived quietly in Las Vegas, where he played golf and sometimes posed for selfies with those still enamored with his celebrity.
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He died Wednesday from prostate cancer.
The victims’ families
Ron Goldman’s sister, Kim, was 22 and broke into sobs when the not-guilty verdict was read. Since then, she counseled troubled teens as executive director of a Southern California-based nonprofit, The Youth Project, until it closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. A best-selling author and public speaker, Kim Goldman also has launched several podcasts including “Confronting: OJ Simpson” and, most recently, “Media Circus.”
Fred Goldman, Ron’s father, has relentlessly pursued Simpson through civil courts, maintaining it is the only way to achieve justice for his son. Goldman’s family has seized some of Simpson’s memorabilia, including his 1968 Heisman Trophy as college football’s best player that year. The family has also taken the rights to Simpson’s movies, a book he wrote about the killings, and other items to satisfy part of the $33.5 million judgment that Simpson refused to pay. Goldman told NBC News Thursday that Simpson’s death was “no great loss to the world.”
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Denise Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister, has remained the family’s most outspoken critic of Simpson, although, like the Goldman family, she refuses to speak his name. The former model has become a victims’ rights advocate and a speaker, urging both women and men to leave abusive relationships. She said she has moved past her anger with God for the killings but has never forgiven Simpson, and will not watch any films or documentaries about them.
The legal “Dream Team”
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Simpson’s lead attorney, died of brain cancer in 2005 at 68. His refrain to jurors – “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” – sought to underscore that the bloody gloves found at Simpson’s home and the crime scene were too small for the football legend when he tried them on in court. After the trial, that line became a national catchphrase. Following the trial, Cochran expanded his law firm to 15 states and frequently appeared on television. He also became the inspiration for Jackie Chiles, the bombastic lawyer character on the TV sitcom “Seinfeld.”
Another key part of the defense team, Robert Kardashian, died of esophageal cancer in 2003 at age 59. A longtime friend of Simpson’s, he renewed his law license specifically to represent him in the trial. Between the time of the murders and his arrest, Simpson stayed in Kardashian’s home. When Simpson fled authorities in a white Ford Bronco on June 17, 1994, Kardashian read to reporters a rambling message Simpson had left behind as a historic freeway chase unfolded on national television. Since his death, Kardashian’s fame has been eclipsed by that of ex-wife Kris, and children Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob, thanks to their reality TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympian and reality TV personality who was previously married to Kris Jenner, wrote Thursday after Simpson’s death: “Good riddance.”
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Robert Shapiro, the first member of Simpson’s defense team, continues to practice law. In 2005, he created a foundation that grants college scholarships to 11- to 18-year-olds for staying sober after his 24-year-old son died of an overdose.
Barry Scheck was the lawyer who introduced DNA science to jurors and undermined the prosecution’s forensic evidence by attacking the collection methods. He and fellow defense lawyer Peter Neufeld co-founded The Innocence Project in 1992. It uses DNA evidence to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted.
F. Lee Bailey was the lawyer who played a key role in exposing racist statements made by one of the prosecution’s key witnesses, police Det. Mark Fuhrman, which undermined his credibility. When he joined the defense team, Bailey was already famous for his role in some of the most high-profile cases of the 20th century, including that of heiress-turned-bank-robber Patricia Hearst. Bailey was disbarred in Massachusetts and Florida in the early 2000s for misconduct in handling a client’s case. He died in 2021.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor emeritus, also helped Simpson get an acquittal and consulted on the scientific aspects of the case. Since then, he courted controversy by helping the late hedge fund manager and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein win a lenient sentence for abusing underaged girls. He was also part of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team that ended with his acquittal.
“He had a very complicated legacy,” attorney Carl E. Douglas, who was on Simpson’s legal team during the murder trial, told CBS News. He said Simpson’s legacy included his accomplishments on the football field and successful move from athletics to becoming a highly sought-after pitchman.
“Before Michael Jackson, before Tiger Woods, there was O.J. Simpson running through airports and highways hawking cereal, cars and rental car agencies,” Douglas said.
The prosecutors
Marcia Clark, the trial’s lead prosecutor, quit law after the trial, although she has appeared frequently over the years as a TV commentator on high-profile trials. She was paid $4 million for her 2016 memoir, “Without a Doubt,” and has gone on to write a series of crime novels.
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Chris Darden, the co-prosecutor, was criticized for having Simpson try on the bloody gloves in the courtroom without first ensuring they would fit. He is now a defense attorney himself. He represented the man charged with killing hip-hop mogul Nipsey Hussle before withdrawing from the case, saying his family had received death threats. Darden has also taught law, appeared on television as a legal commentator and wrote about the Simpson trial in the 1996 book, “In Contempt.” Currently, he is running for Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
The judge
Lance Ito retired in 2015 after presiding over approximately 500 trials. Simpson’s trial made him such a household name that “The Tonight Show” briefly featured a comedy segment called “The Dancing Itos,” in which lookalikes performed in judicial robes. After the Simpson trial, he had to remove his nameplate from his courtroom door because people kept stealing it. Ito has never discussed the trial publicly, citing judicial ethics.
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The houseguest
Brian “Kato” Kaelin, a struggling actor living in a guest house on Simpson’s property, testified he heard a “bump” during the night of the murders and went outside to find Simpson in the yard. Prosecutors later said Kaelin’s testimony showed Simpson was sneaking back home after the killings. Mocked on talk shows as America’s most famous houseguest, Kaelin has gone on to appear on reality shows, as well as in small parts in TV sitcoms and films, and to launch a loungewear clothing line.
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The Electoral College votes to confirm results for the 2024 presidential election today. Here’s what to know.
At state capitols across the U.S. Tuesday, the presidential electors will be gathering to cast their electoral votes, formalizing President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
It’s largely a ceremonial vote, the next step after the presidential election. When Americans cast their ballots on Election Day, they’re technically voting for a slate electors committed to supporting their choice for president and vice president.
How does the Electoral College work?
The rules governing the Electoral College are outlined by the 12th Amendment.
Presidential electors, according to the amendment, “shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify.”
The political parties choose the slate of electors ahead of the general election.
After Election Day, all the votes are counted and then certified by each state. According to the 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act, the deadline to certify the results is set at six days before the electors are scheduled to meet, traditionally on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December.
The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 also requires that each state determine a state official — the governor unless specified otherwise — to be responsible for submitting the “certificate of ascertainment” that identifies the state’s electors and includes a security feature.
What were the 2024 Electoral College results?
Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris’ 226. See state-by-state results here and below.
Nationally, Trump also won the popular vote, winning 77.2 million votes to Harris’ 75 million.
How many electoral votes does each state have?
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and a majority of 270 is needed to become president.
Each state’s electoral votes are equal to the number of representatives they have in the House, plus two senators.
While the number of Electoral College votes has remained at 538 since 1964, the number of votes per state changes to match congressional apportionment after the decennial census. Between the 2020 election and the 2024 election, Texas gained two Electoral College votes, while five other states — Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon — gained one electoral vote each. Six states lost an electoral vote: California, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The map below shows the changes by state between the 2020 election and the 2024 election.
Does each elector have to vote with the state election results?
Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., are winner-take-all, so the winner of the popular vote in the state wins all of the state’s electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska allocate their electors based on the winner of the popular vote within each Congressional District and then two “at-large” electors are determined based on winner of the statewide popular vote.
The electors are supposed to vote in accordance with the outcome of the popular vote in their state. The Constitution does not require electors to vote with the winner of the popular vote, but most states have laws that nullify the votes of “faithless electors.” The Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that states can punish these “faithless electors.”
According to FairVote, there have been 90 “deviant” votes cast by electors for president since the founding of the Electoral College, although the majority of these were due to the death of a party’s nominee rather than a true deviation from the voters’ intent.
There have also been 75 faithless electors for vice president, for a total of 165 faithless electors throughout history, according to FairVote.
After the 2020 election, so-called “fake” Republican electors in seven battleground states won by President Biden met anyway and cast phony votes for Trump. State criminal charges have been filed against fake electors in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. In charging Trump for attempting the overturn the election results, special counsel Jack Smith said these fake electors were part of a plan to overturn the election, orchestrated by pro-Trump attorneys with Trump’s support. Those charges have been dismissed since Trump’s victory in the 2024 election.
What’s next after the Electoral College certification?
After the results are signed and certified, they are sent to Harris, acting as the president of the Senate. The vote certificates must be received by the fourth Wednesday in December, which this year is Dec. 25. The archivist then transmits the sets of certificates to Congress on or before the new Congress meets on Jan. 3, 2025.
On Jan. 6, 2025, Congress meets in a joint session to count the Electoral College votes, overseen by Harris. After the votes are counted, the vice president announces the winner of the election.
Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will take the oath of office at the inauguration at noon on Jan. 20, 2025.
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“Star Trek II,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Beverly Hills Cop” among films named to National Film Registry for 2024
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” the Eddie Murphy action-comedy “Beverly Hills Cop,” the romantic drama “Dirty Dancing,” “The Social Network,” about the founding of Facebook, and the Coen Brothers’ modern western “No Country for Old Men,” are among the films named today to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, to be preserved for future generations.
Each year since 1989, the Library has selected 25 motion pictures to be preserved given their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to America’s film heritage. The Registry includes movies from all genres, after being nominated by filmmakers, academics and fans.
Also among this year’s additions: Cheech & Chong’s stoner comedy “Up in Smoke”; the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart crime drama “Angels with Dirty Faces”; Andy Warhol’s underground classic “The Chelsea Girls”; the children’s fantasy-adventure “Spy Kids”; and the gruesome horror film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
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The full list of this year’s additions reflects advances in film technology, from the earliest (an Edison short from 1895 called “Annabelle Serpentine Dance”) to the most recent (David Fincher’s slickly edited and shot “Social Network,” from 2010), as well as the breadth of the American experience. Edward James Olmos stars in two Registry additions (“American Me” and “My Family/Mi familia”) depicting the lives of Latino immigrants, while “Powwow Highway” tells a story of Native Americans, and “Compensation” dramatizes the lives of deaf characters.
“Films reflect our nation’s history and culture and must be preserved in our national library for generations to come,” said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. “We’re honored by the responsibility to add 25 diverse new films to the National Film Registry each year as we work to preserve our cultural Heritage.”
On Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies will screen a selection of this year’s Registry additions. Select titles are also freely available online in the Library’s National Screening Room.
Below is a complete list of this year’s additions.
To submit nominations for films to be inducted in the Registry, click here.
2024 additions to the National Film Registry
“American Me” (1992)
In his first film as director, Edward James Olmos stars as a prison gang leader who, upon his release, tries to maintain his hold on criminal organizations and drug trafficking in Los Angeles.
“Angels With Dirty Faces” (1938)
Once the Hays Office decided in the early 1930s that movies had become too violent and licentious, bad guys either had to make good for their crimes, or pay the ultimate price. No longer could James Cagney break the law and get away with it! Director Michael Curtiz’s film about childhood friends who follow different paths — Cagney, as gangster Rocky Sullivan, and Pat O’Brien, as Father Connolly — offers a redemptive tale in which young hoodlums idolize Rocky. But when the condemned criminal is being led to the execution chamber, his change of heart — pretending to die a coward’s death — offers a way out for the impressionable youth. One of Cagney’s best performances, the film also features Humphrey Bogart as a crooked lawyer, Ann Sheridan, and the Dead End Kids (whose Hollywood careers would turn from kitchen sink drama to slapstick comedy).
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“Annabelle Serpentine Dance” (a.k.a. “Serpentine Dance – Annabelle”) (1895)
This early Edison short film captures dancer Annabelle Moore maneuvering fabric-wings. Several versions of the film were released, including some with color tints.
“Beverly Hills Cop” (1984)
Eddie Murphy had already appeared in two hit films — “48 HRS.,” opposite Nick Nolte, and “Trading Places,” pairing off against Dan Aykroyd — but in “Beverly Hills Cop” Murphy carried the film on his own as Detroit detective Axel Foley, a fish-out-of-water who has gone to Los Angeles on the trail of a killer. Buoyed by Murphy’s screen charisma and Harold Faltermeyer’s electronic score, the mix of action and comedy was a blockbuster, a formula carried forth in three sequels starring Murphy.
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“The Chelsea Girls” (1966)
Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s 16mm feature was a proto-typical underground movie — heavily improvised, with rough edits (or no edits), multiple and split screens, and a leisurely 3.5-hour length. Being banned in Boston at least added to its allure. Today, the film, set in the landmark Chelsea Hotel in New York City, and featuring Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, International Velvet, Mario Montez, Mary Woronov, Dorothy Dean and other Warhol “Superstars,” offers a unique time capsule of the bohemian 1960s.
“Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt” (1989)
The origin of the NAMES Project Aids Memorial Quilt — a tapestry of stories memorializing those who died from HIV/AIDS, as well as a society that had failed them — is told in this Oscar-winning feature documentary, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, that also earned a Peabody Award.
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“Compensation” (1999)
The debut feature of director Zeinabu irene Davis tells two parallel love stories, set nearly a century apart, each involving a deaf woman and a hearing man diagnosed with a fatal disease. Michelle A. Banks (who is herself deaf) and John Earl Jelks play both couples, and their stories are illustrated with title cards and American Sign Language.
“Dirty Dancing” (1987)
At a 1960s Catskills resort, a teenage girl vacationing with family hits the dance floor with a hot instructor, and summers would never be the same. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze starred in the hit romance that earned the Jennifer Warnes-Bill Medley song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” an Oscar and a Grammy.
“Ganja and Hess” (1973)
Duane Jones, who played the lead in “Night of the Living Dead,” stars in this horror story in which an anthropologist studying ancient African cultures becomes a vampire. A low-budget tale that served as a metaphor for drug addiction, “Ganja and Hess” was directed by writer and playwright Bill Gunn, and was later remade by Spike Lee as “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus.”
“Invaders from Mars” (1953)
When little David McLean (Jimmy Hunt) wakes up in the middle of the night and witnesses a spaceship landing nearby, he tries to convince his dad it was real. But when dad returns from investigating the landing site, there’s something not quite right about him. And then, a similar change comes over his mother. What are those strange marks on the back of their necks? What’s poor little David to do? Fifties paranoia blends with stylish photography, cool-looking sets, and ridiculous Martian costumes in this nostalgic sci-fi tale directed by William Cameron Menzies.
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“KoKo’s Earth Control” (1928)
A wild addition to the genre of apocalyptic cinema, this silent cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer features Koko the Clown and his naughty dog Fitz, visiting the place that runs our planet’s weather. Alas, there is a lever that warns, if pulled, it will mean the end of the Earth! Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive primarily from the original nitrate negative, this is a hilarious take on the End Times — and the problem of pets that refuse to obey. Bad, BAD dog! [You can watch the restored film here.]
“My Family/Mi familia” (1995)
Directed by Gregory Nava (“The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez”), this emotional and tearful multi-generational story of Mexican immigrants settling in East Los Angeles stars Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Elpidia Carrillo and Enrique Castillo.
“The Miracle Worker” (1962)
Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke each won Academy Awards for their performances in the true story of Anne Sullivan and her attempts to teach Helen Keller, a child deaf and blind since she was a toddler. Keller’s autobiography was originally adapted for television and later Broadway (Bancroft and Duke both starred in the stage version). Director Arthur Penn’s black-and-white film version preserved the actresses’ performances in a cooly unsentimental story of determination and human connection.
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“My Own Private Idaho” (1991)
Gus Van Sant (“Drugstore Cowboy”) wrote and directed this haunting tale of friendship, loosely based on plays of Shakespeare, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as street hustlers searching for family and connection.
“No Country for Old Men” (2007)
The Coen Brothers’ sharp precision and keen eye for irony is beautifully on display in this enthralling modern-day Western, in which Josh Brolin’s hunter comes across the scene of a drug deal gone very bad. Alas, that satchel containing mounds of currency with no living owner is just a little too tempting to pass by. Enter Javier Bardem’s sinister hit man, hot on Brolin’s trail, who will let nothing deter him from his prey. Based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel, the film won four Academy Awards, including best picture, best direction, and best supporting actor for Bardem, weird haircut and all.
“Powwow Highway” (1989)
A prize-winner at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Wacks’ comic-drama was remarkable in its time for telling a humanistic story of Native Americans without resorting to stereotypes. Gary Farmer and A. Martinez star as former childhood friends who reconnect for a road trip in a dilapidated car, a journey that is by turns spiritual and criminal.
“The Pride of the Yankees” (1942)
An inspirational biopic of one of sports’ true legends, this story of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig, whose life came undone with a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (what came to become known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), stars Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright, and features several of Gehrig’s teammates (including Babe Ruth) as themselves. Cooper’s reenactment of Gehrig’s farewell speech at Yankee Stadium (in which he states, “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth”) became one of the actor’s most memorable moments.
“The Social Network” (2010)
Like the Akira Kurosawa classic “Rashomon,” “The Social Network” uses competing points of view to decipher the origins of Facebook, as told through legal depositions being filed years after the revolutionary website was born, by former friends now suing each other. Based on Ben Mezrich’s “The Accidental Billionaires,” David Fincher’s classic is a tale of genius, hubris and ethics, involving a paradox: A site founded on the notion of exclusivity which grew to host hundreds of millions of members. Starring Jessie Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield, Max Minghella, Armie Hammer, and Justin Timberlake, and an Oscar-winning script by Aaron Sorkin. Oscars also went to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their haunting score, and to editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall.
“Spy Kids” (2001)
Writer-director Robert Rodriguez made a splash with his debut feature, “El Mariachi,” and followed with “Desperado” and “From Dusk till Dawn.” But for the fantasy “Spy Kids,” he connected with his inner kid, in a story about two children of secret agents who go out on a mission to rescue their captured parents. Starring Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as mom-and-pop spies, and Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as their budding young agents, the film was a hit, spawning a franchise (including a 3-D entry starring Sylvester Stallone).
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982)
The first film of the “Star Trek” franchise to be inducted in the National Film Registry, it’s considered by most to be the best movie, in capturing both the zing of the original TV series and the camaraderie of the Enterprise crew. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, it’s a sequel of sorts to the 1967 episode “Space Seed,” in which a 20th century villain in hibernation is thawed out, stirring much interplanetary trouble. In “Wrath of Khan,” Ricardo Montalban returns in the role of Khan, who sets his sights not just on destroying worlds, but also in taking revenge against Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner). There is action galore, but it’s Kirk’s friendship with Spock (Leonard Nimoy) that gives this film its emotional heft.
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“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)
Among exploitation movies, horror is a genre that has enticed many aspiring filmmakers with little money but lots of fake blood at hand. But Tobe Hooper’s grand guignol tale of a group of young people who find themselves at the wrong isolated farmhouse went far beyond typical drive-in fare. It would give rise to countless slasher films (from “Halloween” to “Friday the 13th”) in which a weapon-wielding bad guy (in this case Leatherface) ticks off cast members one by one. Nasty, bloody and weirdly funny, the film even found itself projected onto the screen of the Museum of Modern Art in New York — a fact it heralded in newspaper ads, as if that would give a low-budget horror film more street cred.
“Up in Smoke” (1978)
The counter-culture duo Cheech Marin & Tommy Chong had already released five successful comedy albums (including “Big Bambu” and “Los Cochinos”) when they dipped their toes into movies with this stoner comedy. Dipped their toes isn’t exactly accurate, though; they plunged head-first into a wild mélange of bits involving marijuana, LSD, hash, cocaine (or Ajax cleanser mistaken for cocaine), alcohol, and pills that are anybody’s guess what they are. “Up in Smoke” took in more than $100 million at the box office, leading to a string of Cheech & Chong films.
“Uptown Saturday Night” (1974)
Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, and director Sidney Poitier star in this action comedy in which victims of a robbery go in search of a stolen wallet containing a winning lottery ticket. With Richard Pryor, Flip Wilson, Roscoe Lee Browne and Rosalind Cash. Poitier directed two follow-up films starring himself and Cosby, “Let’s Do It Again” and “A Piece of the Action.”
“Will” (1981)
Cinematographer Jessie Maple directed this, the first independent feature helmed by an African American woman, in which a former athlete and coach (played by Obaka Adedunyo) struggles to overcome drug addiction.
Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-1976)
The democratic nature of the National Film Registry allows for the preservation of Hollywood studio features, independent films, industrial and advertising shorts, student films, and newsreels. The Registry has also preserved home movies, which capture American life in unfiltered and wholly revealing ways. During her years as a film student in Chicago, Adaora “Zora” Lathan shot six short 16mm films documenting her family members — whimsical vignettes which she characterized as “artworks.”
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Head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces killed in Moscow blast triggered by device hidden in scooter, officials say
Moscow — The head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed along with his deputy early Tuesday in an explosion in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
An explosive device hidden in an electronic scooter went off outside a residential building as the two men left the structure, Agence France-Presse cites investigators as saying.
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“Investigators, forensic experts and operational services are working at the scene,” committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement. “Investigative and search activities are being carried out to establish all the circumstances around this crime.”
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The committee carries out responsible major investigations in Russia.
Kirillov was sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court on Dec. 16 for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine that started in Feb. 2022.
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Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, said it had recorded more than 4,800 uses of chemical weapons on the battlefield since February 2022, particularly K-1 combat grenades.
During the almost 3-year operation, Russia has made small but steady territorial gains to the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine it already controls.
Kirillov had been in his post since 2017, AFP notes.
The Electoral College votes to confirm results for the 2024 presidential election today. Here’s what to know.
“Star Trek II,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Beverly Hills Cop” among films named to National Film Registry for 2024
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The Electoral College votes to confirm results for the 2024 presidential election today. Here’s what to know.
“Star Trek II,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Beverly Hills Cop” among films named to National Film Registry for 2024