WellBeing

COUNTER CULTURE

DVDS

LOVING

DIRECTED BY JEFFNICHOLS STARRING JOEL EDGERTON, RUTH NEGGA

HIDDEN FIGURES

DIRECTED BY THEODORE MELFISTARRING TARAJI P HENSON, OCTAVIA SPENCER, JANELLE MONÁE

JACKIE

DIRECTED BY PABLO LARRAÍN STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN

Let’s look back at the 1960s, that not-sodistant time of Mad Men, the Kennedys, the Cold War and the Space Race — and racial and political conundrums that are largely still with us.

Ironies abound in the very title of , the true story of white construction worker Richard Loving who, in 1967, defied the anti-miscegenation laws of the state of Virginia to marry Mildred Jeter, a woman of black and Native American heritage. The Lovings are hounded, arrested and even jailed until their young ACLU (Civil Liberties Union) lawyer takes the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Asked if he has a message for the justices, Richard says simply, “Tell them

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