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Meet the Woman Who Made a Fashion Show Out of #MeToo

SHOW AND TELL

Myriam Chalek, organizer of the controversy-generating International Dwarf Fashion Show, has turned her attention to #MeToo, with an event that combined sex abuse and spectacle.

Alex Brook Lynn/ARBL Murray, Sarah Shears, Max Toomey, Lizeth Beltran | Published Feb 11, 2018

Watch: Turkey’s Ripoff of ‘Star Wars’

Stealing a Classic

Çetin İnanç, a Turkish filmmaker who specialized in gangster films and light erotic fiction, had a problem. The only solution, as he saw it, was to rip off the space epic.

Max Toomey | Published Jan 24, 2018

The March Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Never Got to See

Poor People’s Campaign

They set up a shanty town and elected a mayor. Fifty years after it occurred, the goals and story of the Poor People’s Campaign still resonate.

Alex Brook Lynn/ARBL Murray, Max Toomey, Deepa Lakshmin | Published Jan 15, 2018

MartinLutherKing.Org is Owned by Neo-Nazis

The page by the Neo-Nazi Stormfront calls King a “sexual deviant” with a “propensity for violence,” and is a top result for searches of “Martin Luther King” on Google.

Ben Collins, Max Toomey | Published Jan 13, 2018

The Best (Maybe True) Heartwarming Christmas Story

Truth or Christmas

Christmas across the trenches, singing soldiers, and possibly a mythical football game, all add up to make one of the greatest holiday stories of all time.

Max Toomey | Published Dec 23, 2017

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