In the 1930s, the Soviet Union reeled under the purges of Joseph Stalin. Every person knew the terror of losing a family member to the gulag, or to a death sentence. Official government decrees defined truth and beauty. Traditional composers were declared decadent and their music forbidden. Only Beethoven survived the ban. In this environment Dmitri Shostakovich, the greatest Soviet composer, found himself heavily scrutinized. Shostakovich was only 26 when he completed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934).

Irv Gotti says he wants to “shake s--t the f--k up” with his new BET anthology series, “Tales.” And Gotti, who created and produces the series, did just that in the show’s June 27 premiere episode, “F–k the Police” — in which a white man (played by Brody Jenner) was lynched by an African-American mob. “I am not a political guy at all. I just seen the chance to put the mirror up to the world with the concept of ‘Tales,’” Gotti says.

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GENEVA (AP) — All sides in Ethiopia’s yearlong war in the Tigray region have committed abuses marked by “extreme brutality” that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday, noting “the big numbers of violations” are linked to Ethiopian forces and those from neighboring Eritrea. The conflict that has killed thousands began in November 2020 after a political falling-out between the Tigray forces that long dominated the national government and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s current government.

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