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Just Mercy (English: Just Mercy) is an American film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, featuring biographical and dramatic elements. The production, scripted by Andrew Lanham and Destin Daniel Cretton, is adapted from Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, which recounts his true story. The lead roles are played by Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. The film was first released on 29 December 2019.PlotThe film centers on young lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s

In the 20th century, the Tuskegee and Guatemala studies conducted under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) are among the practices in the history of clinical research in which ethical principles were systematically violated and which have been examined within the context of scientific racism debates. These studies involved the administration of experimental procedures without informed consent on economically and socially vulnerable groups, the failure to adequately i

Get Out is a 2017 American horror thriller film directed by Jordan Peele. It stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, and Bradley Whitford. The film explores disturbing and terrifying events that unfold when a young Black man visits the family of his white girlfriend.PlotChris Washington travels from New York to the Armitage family’s rural estate to meet his white girlfriend Rose Armitage’s family. At first, everything seems normal, but Chris gradually becomes uneasy about the behavior of the Arm

To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan and adapted from Harper Lee’s novel of the same name by screenwriter Horton Foote, is a 1962 American drama film. Set in the 1930s in Alabama, it centers on themes of racism, justice, and human rights. Produced by Alan J. Pakula, the film was made by Pakula-Mulligan-Brentwood Productions and stars Gregory Peck in the lead role.PlotThe film takes place in a small Alabama town in 1932. Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer and father of two children, Je

The National Socialist Underground (NSU) (original name: Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) is an extreme-right terrorist organization held responsible for the murders of ten people, eight of whom were Turkish, between 2000 and 2007 in Germany. The existence of the organization and its role in the murders came to light following evidence uncovered after two of its members were found dead on 4 November 2011. Until that date, investigations conducted across different states had failed to establis

The Hanau Attack was a racist and far-right terrorist attack that took place on February 19, 2020, in the city of Hanau, located in the Hessen state of Germany. The German Federal Prosecutor's Office classified the incident as a terrorist act. In the attack, nine people lost their lives, including four Turkish citizens, while six others were injured.The perpetrator, Tobias Rathjen, killed his mother after the attack and then committed suicide. The incident was interpreted as a consequence of the

Discourse on Colonialism (Sömürgecilik Üzerine Söylev) is a significant manifesto written in 1950 by the Martinican poet and philosopher Aimé Césaire, and it is considered a foundational text of postcolonial thought. In this work, Césaire harshly critiques the nature of colonialism, which he argues is intertwined with Western civilization's narratives of progress and capitalism. Written at a time when colonial administrations were still in power in Africa and Asia and millions of people were und

Kindred, by American author Octavia E. Butler, was first published in 1979 and is a hybrid of the science fiction, historical fiction, and social novel genres. The novel uses the theme of time travel to explore profound social issues such as racism, slavery, and reckoning with the past. Butler’s novel aims to make readers experience the historical traumas of African Americans not merely as intellectual concepts but on a physical and emotional level.PlotThe protagonist of the novel is Dana Frankl

The Solingen Attack was a racist assault that occurred on the night of 29 May 1993 in the city of Solingen, located in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, resulting in the deaths of five Turkish women and a young girl. The incident, which began with the arson of the home of the Genç family, is recorded as one of the deadliest racist attacks in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany since World War II.Infographic of the Solingen Attack (Anadolu Agency)" image-alternate="" image-el