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African American Documentaries

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:41:27 -0400

Well dear readers, I have been watching a lot of documentaries lately (the product of waiting to go back to work) so I thought I would share the one’s I have seen and my thoughts with you. However, the list alone is a multi-page word document (when I commit, I commit; Oops) so I will start with the list of African American specific documentaries and go from there:

4 Little Girls (1997)

A Man Named Pearl (2006)

A Question of Color (1992)

A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom (1996)

African American Lives (2006)

African American Lives 2 (2008)

All of Us: Protecting Black Women Against AIDS (2009)

America Beyond the Color Line (2005)

BaadAssss Cinema: A Bold Look at 70s Blaxploitation Films (2002)

Banished (2006)

Bastards of the Party (2005)

Between Black and White (1994)

Black American Conservatism: An Exploration of Ideas (1992)

Black Is – Black Ain’t: A Personal Journey Through Black Identity (1995)

Black Like Who? (1997)

Black on Black (1968)

Blacking Up: Hip Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity (2010)

Breaking the Huddle (2008)

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2002)

By River, By Rail (1998)

Chester Himes: A Rage in Harlem (2009)

Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)Citizen King (2004)

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America (2009)

Color Adjustment (1991)

Crisis in Levittown (1957)

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003)

Ethnic Notions (1986)

Eyes on the Prize Series (1987)

Awakenings, 1954-1956

Fighting Back, 1957-1962

Ain’t Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961

No Easy Walk 1962-1966

Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964

Bridge to Freedom, 1965

The Time Has Come, 1964-1965

Two Societies, 1965-1968

Power! 1967-1968

The Promised Land, 1967-1968

Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More, 1964-1972

A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968

The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974-1980

Back to the Movement, 1979-mid 1980s

Fannie Lou Hamer: Voting Rights Activists (2009)

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)

Freedom Riders (2009)

Good Hair (2009)

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks (2000)

Hoop Dreams (1994)

It’s a Damn Shame: Homosexuality in Hop-Hop (2006)

Jazz (2001)

Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity (1992)

Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)

Lady Day Sings the Blues (2005)

Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994)

Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994)

The N Word: Divided We Stand (2006)

Passin’ It On: the Black Panthers’ Search for Justice (2006)

Prom Night in Mississippi (2009)

Racism in America: Small Town 1950s Case Study

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer (2009)

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004)

Roads to Memphis: the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2005)

Secret Daughter (1996)

Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change (2007)

Slavery and the Making of America (2004)

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Soul Food Junkies (2012)

Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)

Strange Fruit (2002)

The Abolitionists (2013)

The Black List: Volume 1 (2008)

The Black List: Volume 2 (2009)

The Black List: Volume 3

The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 (2011)

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1998)

The Black Wall Street

The Central Park Five (2013)

The Darker Side of Black (1996)

The Language You Cry In (1998)

The Loving Story (2011)

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)

The Mirror Lied (1999)

The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2004)

The Two Nations of Black America (2008)

Two Dollars and A Dream (1989)

Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives (2003)

Underground Railroad: the William Still Story (2012)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)

Wattstax (1973)

We Shall Overcome (1988)

When the Levies Broke (2006)

With All Deliberate Speed (2005)

ofnationalgeographic: National Geographic, July 1977

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:33:52 -0400

ofnationalgeographic:

National Geographic, July 1977

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:21:47 -0400

Twinkle Ain't Dead

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:20:51 -0400

Twinkle Ain't Dead:

liveinjusttoday:

Shouts out to jommeez for helping me discover most of these songs! I stumbled across his YouTube channel the other day and ended up making the most perfect playlist. RIYL: Grown Ups, Midwest Pen Pals, and Algernon Cadwallader. Stay #turnt.

[01] Balloon Boyz - Jazz Hands
[02] The Bikes & The Basement - Nai Harvest
[03] No Man Left Behind - Mane Horse
[04] Friends With Elephants - Family Might
[05] Comedown Kid - Nicknames
[06] The First One - Kittyhawk
[07] Baraka Mouth - Spanish Club
[08] Fun In The Sun - SPF 420
[09] A Detailed and Poetic Physical Threat to the Person Who Intentionally Vandalized my 1994 Dodge Intrepid Behind Kate’s Apartment - Pet Symmetry
[10] Who Is John Galt - Friends Like Steve
[11] Shorts - Zola
[12] Number One Feel-Good Movie Of The Summer - Oswald
[13] Dressed For December - Papayér
[14] Gold Cobra - Foxing
[15] Third Floor - Cheyenne
[16] Japan - Dios Trio

landlockedmermaid: new blog post

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:40:14 -0400

landlockedmermaid:

new blog post

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:30:12 -0400

landlockedmermaid: my room this morning

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:40:10 -0400

landlockedmermaid:

my room this morning

abstrackafricana: (via TumbleOn)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:07:10 -0400

abstrackafricana:

(via TumbleOn)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:01:04 -0400

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:54:11 -0400

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”

- Voltaire (via ceedling)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:35:16 -0400

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:40:00 -0400

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got” -Janis...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:02:31 -0400

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got”

-Janis Joplin (1943-1970)

DUMB ROCK PLAYLIST #1

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:46:22 -0400

dumb-rock:

Introducing music you may actually like, FOR FREE!

You can download it here.

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You can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:11:10 -0400

You can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.

sea-change: when brave bird saved - a short film from laura...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:22:53 -0400

sea-change:

when brave bird saved - a short film from laura marling

stepneycityfarm: Goats in armchair. Relaxed. Photos by Terry...

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:20:16 -0400

stepneycityfarm:

Goats in armchair. Relaxed. Photos by Terry Alan Jones.