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  • Watching 12 Years a Slave Could Save Your Life

    Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave  is leading the Golden Globe nominations and is sure to be an Oscar contender. It’s been praised as an antidote to slavery-nostalgia fantasies like Gone With the Wind. Yet some see no redeeming qualities or uplift in the movie—just pain. Others feel that we don’t need to be reminded…

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