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QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"
"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."
- Fred Wilson
"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."
- N. Abdul-Wakil
"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."
- Dredlocks Tree
The REEL Black Same Gender Loving Filmography Resource (A 24/7 ONLINE FILM DATABASE)
Click The Pic To Access The Film Library Database! (166 Films) LAST UPDATE: Monday, December 3rd, 2012
A Shades of Truth Theatre and Kumble Theatre Presentation
Thursday, January 13th, 2011 @ 7:30 PM
SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR YOU AS A CIRCLE OF BROTHERS GUEST
ONLY $20.00 WITH PROMOTION CODE – “COB11”
Written by Jeff Stetson Directed by Eric Coleman with Lawrence Winslow as Malcolm X, Michael Green as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ron Wilks as Rashad
Synopsis:
THE MEETING is an engaging and intelligent play that depicts a fictional account of a secret meeting between Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following the bombing of Malcolm X’s home and shortly before he was assassinated, Malcolm and Martin meet in a room inside the historic Theresa Hotel. This riveting play deals with issues that are still relevant today, such as war, poverty, racism and the need for Black self-empowerment. They were two men with different ideologies, but a common understanding of the plight of Black America.
THE MEETING by Jeff Stetson Directed by Eric Coleman Starring Michael Green as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Lawrence Winslow as Malcolm X and Ron Wilks as Rashad
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts Long Island University @ One University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Flatbush Ave between DeKalb Ave & Willoughby St)
Box office (718) 488-1624 Open 1pm – 6pm Monday through Friday & Weekends of shows. Purchase tickets online @ www.kumbletheater.org Use Promotion Code - "COB11"
For more info contact Michael Green @ 212-690-0797/646-488-9576
Today, the 4th day of KWANZAA which is celebrated with the principle of Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah-AH): Cooperative Economics has always resonated with me.
I hardly ever post STATUS updates on Facebook, but today I will. It's disappointing how our money from the African FAMILY gets enormously spent outside our community, but doesn't funnel back in to us to support our ROOTS, like a tree.
I believe we need to challenge ourselves around this principle. Let's support (and/or continue to support) Black music/spoken word artists such as Yolo Akili, Baron, William Scott (all on Facebook, by the way) and the other great artists out there - let's support Black owned businesses such as Nubian Heritage (aka know Nicholas Variety) in downtown Brooklyn, NY on Fulton Street; Hue-Man Bookstore on 125th in Harlem and the great Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center on 156th St. & Amsterdam Ave. and all the others around the country - support organizations such as BMX (Black Men's Xchange), Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), etc. and support Black painters, photographers, filmmakers, and other PROGRESSIVE people and entities out there.
The Jews do this for themselves quite successfully ... less cynicism on our part and let's just support and nurture the ones who are willing to do the work with each other in the African FAMILY. PEACE!
The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) presents a 44th Anniversary Kwanzaa Celebration with Dr. MAULANA KARENGA this year's message Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba: An Ethics of Sharing Good in the World
At Boys & Girls High School, on Monday, Kujichagalia (Self-Determination), December 27, 2010, the creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga will address this year's theme.
TIME: 5:30PM - 9:30PM
BOYS & GIRLS H.S. located at 1700 Fulton St., in Brooklyn (between) Utica and Schnectady Aves.) 11226.
$10.00 Admission $7.00 Seniors & Children Trave: "A" or "C" train to Utica Avenue
"...Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense." Dr. Maulana Karenga (quote from the Founder's 2010 Welcome statement)
Cultural entertainment will be provided by the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble as well as vocalist Camille Yarbrough and Zahmu/Threee
The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) presents a 44th Anniversary Kwanzaa Celebration with Dr. MAULANA KARENGA this year's message Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba: An Ethics of Sharing Good in the World
At Boys & Girls High School, on Monday, Kujichagalia (Self-Determination), December 27, 2010, the creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga will address this year's theme.
TIME: 5:30PM - 9:30PM
BOYS & GIRLS H.S. located at 1700 Fulton St., in Brooklyn (between) Utica and Schnectady Aves.) 11226.
$10.00 Admission $7.00 Seniors & Children
"...Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense." Dr. Maulana Karenga (quote from the Founder's 2010 Welcome statement)
Cultural entertainment will be provided by the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble as well as vocalist Camille Yarbrough and Zahmu/Three
KWANZAA A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture
Dr. Karenga is Professor of Africana Studies at California State University, at Long Beach. He is also chair of the Organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations. He has been an activist scholar since the 60s especially in such educational and social movements as Black Studies, Black Power, Black Arts, independent schools, Afrocentricity, ancient Egyptian Studies, Ifa ethical studies, the Million Person Marches and Reparations. He is the author of numerous books, some including Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture; Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle,and; Introduction to Black Studies as well as numerous articles. He has earned two Ph.D.s, one in social ethics (University of Southern California, and the other in political science (U.S.International University).
My friend Ernest treated me to an NBA game to see the New Jersey Nets in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center (Stadium) on Wednesday December 1st, 2010.
I haven't been to a live sports game in about 15 years and it was so qool to be there and humbled to have such GREAT friends in my life.
Quickly I will say that prices are outrageous and I couldn't imagine bringing a family to see any type of games on a regular basis. The prices for food and drinks could put me on a "fast".
Overall, I had a GREAT, GREAT TIME!! Can you believe that this game ended in TRIPLE OVERTIME!!!! This game was meant for me!!
Foreground (Left to Right): My Friend Ernest and ME (ROD)
“Chocolate Babies” (1997) Directed by Stephen Winter Running Time: 83 minutes (35mm film print) When a band of HIV-positive African American drag queens have had enough of patronizing activists and politicians, they launch an underground terror campaign to fight for justice. Writer-director Stephen Winter's scathingly funny and tender feature debut hits like a hand grenade, demolishing independent film conventions as thoroughly as the political marginalization and complacency that are its main targets.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Legacy Project series, in partnership with OutFest. Chocolate Babies is distributed by Frameline Distribution.
Producer: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente. Screenwriter: Stephen Winter. Editor: Francisco Macias. Cast: Suzanne Gregg Ferguson, Dudley Findlay, Jr., Jon Kit Lee, Michael Lynch, Claude E. Sloan.
In person: Ernest Hardy, Tisa Bryant, editors, War Diaries; Kevin Simmonds, contributor, War Diaries; Pato Hebert, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA); Keith M. Harris, associate professor, UC Riverside.
What an INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL and SENSUAL PIECE OF MOTION ART about the Black Same Gender Loving (SGL) experience Concretely is.
MAN! The video is so beautiful. For some reason it reminds me of something the late Black SGL filmmaker Marlon Riggs would have done.
Spoken Word And SGL Artist Yolo Akili
And check out Yolo's website, too. I went to Amazon.com and downloaded Yolo's new CD Purple Galaxy back in September 2010. CDBaby.com and iTunes also has his music as well.
Even though you may enjoy the great meal and the coming together of family on Thanksgiving, please be aware of this historical significance of this holiday. For the descendants of the indigenous people of "North America" (originally called Turtle Island), this holiday is represented by the sadness the Native American monument below speaks of.
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As time has evolved, pagan rituals have been used to instill a revisionist sense of history in us all. It's cool to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with your family, friends and loved ones. However, please don't forget the atrocities committed against Native Americans in the name of imperialism. Their losses were to the same people that held our (African) ancestors in the most barbaric form of race-based chattel slavery the world had/has ever seen. The losses of the Native American people are also our losses. Our losses are also their losses.
It is the worst form of ignorance to be unaware of your history. It insults the memory and sacrifices that your ancestors made so that their descendants might have a better life.
- N. Abdul-Wakil
The National Day of Mourning A Different `Thanksgiving' Perspectiveby Terri Jean
"Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed!"-- Miantinomo (Narraganset) 1642. (He was executed by the colonists and their Indian government allies in 1643). It's that time of year. The holiday originated by poor Pilgrims and their neighborly Indian friends is about to be set again on Americas' kitchen table. With televised parades and football games, families gather together to give thanks for the previous year, and to inject heartfelt hope into the year to follow. All the while a growing number of protesters gather yearly in Plymouth, Massachusetts to mourn the traditional feast. Well, not the feast itself or even the thankfulness it is meant to instill; they grieve the fictional foundation the national holiday sits upon, and with each passing year those protesters continue to feel the incessant societal slap dispensed to this continents first people. Read the rest of this entry...
Where's the 'Thanks' in Thanksgiving?
One of the most cherished American holidays is Thanksgiving, a day that Abraham Lincoln officially declared in 1863, in praise of "our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens." In the early 1900s, Gimbels and Macy's saw dollar signs and commandeered the celebration, evicted the heavenly Father altogether, added a parade with Santa Claus, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Every American school child learns of the harvest feast where the friendly local Indians broke bread and shared turkey with the black-hatted, big-buckled European Pilgrims in a festival of interracial harmony and mutual respect. Yet, there is almost nothing true about this idyllic scenario--not even the turkey. This comforting mythology has concealed some of the bloodiest acts of race hate in American history. Let us pull the stuffing out of this Thanksgiving myth and get down to the bones of the Thanksgiving idea, which has some harsh and disturbing truths...
In order to whet the appetite of the fierce Spanish dogs for human flesh, New World natives were chopped up and fed to the dogs!!!!!
The New World Holocaust!!
"From all this it is clear how a virtuous life in the preachers of the faith takes the place of miracles, so that unbelievers readily hear the words of life and see that it is reasonable to believe them, and thus finally they gain these men for Christ. But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in the Indian lands of the west, nothing can be clearer than that we have become an effective obstacle to their conversion"
--(In Defense of the Indians, de Las Casas, p. 136).This is a famous quote from Don Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Defender of the New World people from his own rapacious countrymen. All we need to do to make it applicable to today is to change a few WORDS:
"But it will be just the opposite if their lives are stained by crime, especially by devastating their lands, by looting, invading and unjustly seizing the domains and properties of these same unbelievers. And if for this reason a countless number of them are killed and slaughtered, as we have always done and continue to do in IRAQ, nothing can be clearer than that we have become an effective obstacle to their conversion."
"[The Spaniards] took babies from their mothers' breasts, grabbing them by the feet and smashing their heads against rocks. . . . They built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground and prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles. . . . Then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive."
Mandating Indigenous Holocaust EducationDr. June Terpstra
On yet another USA manufactured “holiday” where schools close to honor the savage conquistador, Christopher Columbus, who ushered into history the holocaust of approximately 11 million native north American “Indians” I propose a mandate for indigenous holocaust education, K-12. Like the new federal legislation introduced in congress to mandate education of the Jewish holocaust, I also propose we replace not only senior citizens arts and crafts but pre-school arts and crafts with education workshops developed to examine the denial of Indian genocide and removal; the denial of African Diaspora genocide and slavery, past and present; and, the genocide of Arabs and Muslims occurring in Palestine today.
Own a Copy of the Award-Winning Mississippi Damned Pre-Sale Begins
Just in time for the 2010 holiday season, you can now purchase the Mississippi Damned DVD for your home collection! Own the film that made a definite mark on the film festival circuit, winning 15 awards at festivals all over the country. Honors include: Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 Chicago Film Festival, Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 American Black Film Festival, and Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.
The DVD is full of GREAT features including Deleted Scenes, the Trailer, Behind The Scenes Material, Interviews from the Film Festival Circuit, and Tina Mabry's first short, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, which stars Jossie Harris Thacker who plays Charlie in Mississippi Damned.
Starring Malcolm Goodwin (Leatherheads, American Gangster), Michael Hyatt (The Wire), Malcolm David Kelley (Antwone Fisher, Lost), Tessa Thompson (For Colored Girls), Simbi Kali Williams (3rd Rock from the Sun), and DB Woodside (24,The Temptations), the film has been cited as one of "the best ensemble casts of the year."
Buy now to get the pre-sale price of $14.95 + shipping and handling! Take advantage of this great price as it will go up at the end of the pre-sale period. DVDs will be available for shipping on December 3rd, 2010 in plenty of time for the holiday season.
Just visit www.MississippiDamned.com and visit the store to get your copy today!(Navigate to the STORE tab)
Mississippi Damned Awards and Honors
Jury Award for Best American Independent Film: Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest 2009
Jury Award for Narrative Breakthrough Film: 2009 Atlanta Film Festival 365
Audience Award for Best Feature Film: NewFest 2009
Grand Jury Award for Best Actor (Tessa Thompson): 2009 American Black Film Festival
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: 2009 American Black Film Festival
Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature Film: Outfest 2009 Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Film: 2009 Urbanworld Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Feature Film: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Screenplay: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Supporting Actress (Jossie Harris Thacker): 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Writing & Directing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Producing & Editing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
Mississippi Damned's Writer/Director, Tina Mabry & Cinematographer, Bradford Young Named in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film
2009 AfterEllen.com Visibility Award for Best Festival Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters
2010 Black Reel Award for Best Independent Feature Film
Audience Award for Best Feature Film: Hayti Heritage Film Festival 2010
Tina Mabry Named 2010 United States Artist James Baldwin Fellow.
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One World, One Family™
DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.
One FUN thing I LOVE playing is a game called WARRI . It is the oldest game in the world and originated in AFRICA. It is played many different ways and called numerous names depending upon the region of the world. The play mechanics in terms of thinking is as challenging as chess YET incredibly easy to learn and play like the simplicity of checkers. I have two WARRI game boards (the bigger one shown above). I bought both of them and learned the rules of WARRI from my friend and mentor, Oba. Click the pic to find out more. Really qool!
The Term "Same Gender Loving" (SGL)
"Same-Gender-Loving" or "SGL", its meaning which was coined and derived out of the Black community "...emerged in the early 1990s to offer Black women who love women and Black men who love men (and other people of color) a way of identifying that resonated with the uniqueness of Black life and culture". READ MORE...
Basically, it's a CULTURAL AFFIRMATION SPECIFIC to PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. We speak for ourselves and self-identify for ourselves.
I live its ideology through LOVE and ACCEPTANCE.
All The AFRICAN Resource Links Starting From Here & Downward Are Alphabetized By Category. HAVE FUN! | | | V
FIRE!! (Reprint of the 1926 Issue) In 1926, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett and John P. Davis Created The Publication Called FIRE!!
The 2009 List: 25 Film Festivals Worth the Fee (by MovieMaker.com)
Every moviemaker has dreams of his or her film landing at Sundance or Cannes and instantly acquiring the enduring acclaim that fests of that caché can offer. There ’s nothing wrong with striving for those rarified venues, but moviemakers need not get their celluoid in a bunch if it doesn’t happen, because now more than ever there are excellent alternatives—festivals that go the extra mile to make certain that a moviemaker ’s efforts are well compensated.
Whether the payoff comes in the form of a generous cash prize, the opportunity to hobknob with an industry titan, or just a fattening of one’s press kit and crew Rolodex, the festivals that are worth your fee and your time can make all the difference in your burgeoning career:
• Action on Film International Film Festival • Angelus Student Film Festival • Ashland Independent Film Festival • Austin Film Festival • Bermuda International Film Festival • Boxur Shorts Film Festival • Calgary International Film Festival • Dark Carnival Film Festival • DC Shorts Film Festival • Doorpost Film Project • Elevate Film Festival • L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival • Mammoth Film Festival • Marfa Film Festival • Myrtle Beach International Film Festival • Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival • Ottawa International Animation Film Festival • Oxford International Film Festival • Palm Springs Shortfest • Poppy Jasper Film Festival • Red Rock Film Festival • Screamfest Horror Film Festival • SILVERDOCS • Syracuse International Film Festival • Whistler Film Festival
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