After honoring “Reservation Dogs,” “Dopesick,” “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” and Dan Rather yesterday, the Peabody Awards continued their four-day rollout revealing seven additional winners. To no one’s surprise, HBO Max’s “Hacks” and the PBS docu-series “Philly D.A.” were among the winners. A very pleasant surprise, however, was that the CBC and HBO Max series, “Sort Of” also made the cut.

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Awarded in virtual presentations, Melissa McCarthy introduced “Hacks,” Kevin Bacon spoke for “Philly D.A.,” Tan France honored “Sort Of” and Bryan Stevenson presented “My Name is Pauli Murray.” On the News category side, Congressman Adam Kinzinger introduced The New York Times’ “Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S.

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What does dismantling the American carceral state look like? How can meaningful and radical police reform actually be enacted? After years of tireless work by activists, acting upon decades of injustice against the poor and People of Color, these issues of now part of mainstream political platforms. On a federal level, President Joe Biden’s recent executive order to phase out the use of private, for-profit prisons is a clear indication of how far things have come….and how much further they need to go.

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The fact there are even 72 selections for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival is something of a miracle. The fall festivals had the benefit of movies that mostly shot before the pandemic hit in March. Outside of three selections originally set to debut at Cannes (a silver lining for Sundance), most of the narrative pictures premiering in January were shot at least partially after the virus hit North America. When there is a will, there is a way.

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