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Today — 26 June 2024World News

TV tonight: get ready for Little Simz’ Pyramid stage debut

The Mercury Prize winner reflects on Glastonbury festivals past. Plus: Hilary Swank’s Eileen is off to the country fair on Alaska Daily. Here’s what to watch this evening

10pm, BBC Two
Glastonbury 2024 headliners Dua Lipa and Coldplay have already been profiled in this pre-festival hype strand. Now the spotlight falls on Little Simz, the 2022 Mercury prizewinner poised to make her Pyramid stage debut on Saturday night. It has been a fascinating journey for the rapper and Top Boy star, who first played Glasto in 2016. Here, she reflects on her previous experiences in deepest Somerset and shouts out some of her favourite festival sets. Graeme Virtue

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© Photograph: Paul Bergen/EPA

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© Photograph: Paul Bergen/EPA

Yesterday — 25 June 2024World News

Bad Press review – Native American journalists’ thrilling battle for free speech

25 June 2024 at 18:35

This documentary’s plunge into the fight to regain editorial independence for Oklahoma’s Muscogee Nation is a murky, twisty tale

It can take decades to win a free press, but only a moment to lose it. Bad Press, a woolly but instructive documentary in the Storyville strand, begins by showing us one such moment. A group of casually dressed people are hunched round a long table in a room cluttered with filing cabinets and spare chairs. This is the legislative council of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, sitting in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. After a brief debate, the motion in front of them is carried by seven votes to six. With that, the Nation’s government‑funded newspaper and radio station lose editorial independence.

This is 2018. Three years earlier, the Muscogee Nation had enshrined the freedom of its press in law. Native American tribes are not bound by the US constitution – which includes that protection – because they govern themselves independently. Almost none of them have chosen to legislate to protect a free press; the Muscogee was one of only five of the 574 federally recognised tribes to have done so.

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© Photograph: Joe Peeler/BBC/Oklafilm LLC

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© Photograph: Joe Peeler/BBC/Oklafilm LLC

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