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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
Written and performed by Colman Domingo Choreographed by Ken Roberson Directed by Tony Kelly
Where do you get soul?
From the kitchen rotary phone cord your sister stretched out nine feet? From never learning the real secrets of your crazy cousin until you were older? From the broken Easy Bake oven your brother used to torment your sister’s Barbie dolls? Or from the memory of watching your parents sell the house you grew up in?
Maybe you get soul from listening to the music on WDAS FM with your mother in the backyard at midnight on a hot summer evening. From Stevie, Aretha, Marvin, Chaka, Barry, Gladys...and Colman.
Come groove into 1970’s West Philly at Vineyard Theatre and discover the "captivating" (Newsday) new play by Colman Domingo, of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE and Logo Network’s ‘THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW’ that NY1 hailed as "Theatrical gold! A tour de force... with so much heart ...and soul."
GET ‘SOULED’ THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 2009.
Colman Domingo in A Boy and His Soul in a moving and hilarious New Play that explores the life-experiences of a young African-American man in 1980s Philadelphia, propelled by the beat of classical soul music.
There will be a Talk Back after the performance with Colman Domingo led by our own (Black SGL brutha) Bryan Glover.
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 5:23 am By: Denise Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com
A Black Missouri teen, who last month was doused with gasoline and set afire by two white schoolmates, now faces charges himself as he recovers from burns over most of his body.
Walter Currie Jr., a 15-year-old in Poplar Bluff, Mo., was burned on June 13 after an exchange with two teens with whom he reportedly had a previous altercation.
The youth who allegedly doused him with the gasoline and lit the fuel has been charged with assault as a juvenile, Currie’s parents said.
On July 6, several weeks after the incident, authorities gave Currie and his parents notice that he is being charged in connection with another incident where a teen related to the youth who set him afire was hit in the face, said Winonia Currie, Walter’s mother.
“All of a sudden, they decided to charge him with something that happened on June 10, but Walter said he didn’t have anything to do with it,” she said.
Because all of the people involved are juveniles, court officials in Butler County, Missouri said they can give only limited details on the incidents and cannot discuss names.
“I can tell you that there are charges against everyone involved,” Lesi Smith, chief juvenile officer for Butler County, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
The suspects have not been revealed publicly and could not be reached for this story.
Walter Jr. said the teen who burned him told him he had gasoline and a lighter, and then began to spray him with the fuel before striking the lighter. Walter Jr. ran and jumped on a car, rolling on it to try to stop the burning. He even shed some of his clothing.
Initially, the youth suspected of burning Walter Jr. was arrested and was being held in a juvenile detention facility. He has since been released, according to sources familiar with the case.
The Curries say they want to see justice for their son. They want the 16-year-old to face stiff penalties.
“I want him to serve some time,” Walter Currie Sr. told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Winonia Currie said her son is scheduled for a hearing on Aug. 5 at 1 p.m. and the teen that set her son afire is scheduled on the same day, in the same courtroom, at 2:30 p.m.
The Curries say they have only lived a couple of years in Poplar Bluff, a town about 125 miles south of St. Louis, Mo.
“It’s like a country city,” Winonia Currie said.
Though the family has received words of encouragement from black and white residents, Mrs. Currie said she questions whether everyone will get just treatment.
“The prosecutors have told us they will do everything they can to try him as an adult, but we’re getting very little information,” she said.
The charges for Walter Jr. bring additional hardships for the family.
“We’ve had all these medical bills. The insurance will only cover so much. We have to take him back and forth to the hospital in St Louis,” she said. “Now we have to try to find a lawyer. That’s more money.”
Doctors have told the Curries that it may be two years before their son’s burns are completely healed. He suffered burns on much of his body, including his face, chest, neck and arms.
“The physical wounds are healing, but we still have to deal with the mental stability,” Mrs. Currie said.
The incident has taken a devastating toll on the Walter Jr. and the family, said Tierra Shaffer, Walter’s older sister via email. “He has nightmares of being burned alive,” she said.
The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players at The Harlem School of the Arts Theatre 647 St. Nicholas Avenue (off W. 142nd St.) Present
"Light In The Cellar" Written by Gertrude Jeannette Directed by Patricia R. Floyd
SYNOPSIS: Southern family moves to Harlem in the 1960's to escape racial discrimination, only to face discrimination of a different kind.
FEATURING:
A.C. Davison*, Valarie Tekosky*, Norman Smalls, Toni Ann DeNoble, Albert Eggleston, Benja K*, Steven Lee Edwards, Colette Bryce, Leopold Lowe*, RayMartell Moore, Nzingtha Smith, and the children of The Harlem School of the Arts
*Appearing Courtesy Actor Equity Association
October 23 - November 15, 2009
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM Sundays at 2:30 PM
HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE - PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY
TICKETS - $22 GENERAL, $18 SENIORS/STUDENTS $18 GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE $8 CHILDREN UNDER 14
OPENING Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:30 PM - Reception to Follow $25 For Everyone
FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 & SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 FREE WILL OFFERING (Donations Only)
For Tickets & Info: 212-368-9314. Seating Limited. Reserve online at: www.ticketannex.com or (866) 388-4-TIX or (866) 388-4849
Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:00 PM WRITING WHAT WE KNOW
Join us for a lively reading and discussion with four writers whose thought-provoking innovative works challenge conventional social and cultural norms. Readers include Pamela Sneed, Herukhuti, Curu Necos-Bloice, G. Winston James, and Cheryl Boyce-Taylor. Hosted by Steven G Fullwood, project director of the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive. Books will be available for purchase in the gift shop prior to the event.
Monday, November 2, 2009, 7:00 PM SONGS FROM THE PARADISE
Three esteemed writers read from their latest works and engage questions about being immigrants, creative artists, and pushing against the grain of social norms as queer artists of color. Featuring Staceyann Chin, Anton Niblett, and Curu Necos-Bloice. Hosted by Steven G Fullwood, project director ofthe Black Gay & Lesbian Archive. Books will be available for purchase in the gift shop prior to the event.
For more information, contact Steven G Fullwood at 212.491.2226 or via email at sfullwood[AT]nypl-dot-org.
You know... I agree with some of the things that Mos Def said on this particular Real Time with Bill Maher show. I'm in total alignment with him when he said (summary paraphrase)"I'm from the projects. I know DANGER.... someone from the projects ain't worried about that boogeyman shit." I definitely feel that way and further, everytime I get on a New York City Transit train I wanna scream when I hear the message "...protect yourself. If you see suspicious activity on the train or platform edge, do not keep it to yourself". I mean YO, IT'S A FUCKING JOKE THAT 8 FREAKIN' YEARS LATER (ALMOST A DECADE NOW) WE ARE STILL ON WITH THIS BROKEN RECORD (PROPAGANDA OF FEAR MESSAGES) BY SAYING THIS SHIT! I think people are capable of articulating if there's a potential danger without having a propaganda message reminder constantly. And then it end with NOT "...have a nice day" BUT "...have a SAFE day". Like Mos Def said, if someone is going to get you, then they're going to get you. Ain't no one going to make no damn video tape of what they're going to do to you. Now I'm not proposing that there aren't real threats out there, but at the same time I'm a Black man living under a FUCKING potential and very real siege everyday. It is more likely that I'll have a run in with a white racist police officer and possibly shot and killed than in my honest opinion, then a blown up building or other activity by terrorists. The NYPD as Mos Def said are hired terrorists of the state.
As much as I LOVE most of Bill Maher's views he's totally off base by saying in the very beginning of this clip that racist police officers (that Mos Def was alluding to without having to say it) and terrorists are apples and oranges. Terrorism is terrorism, and the scale in which they happen doesn't minimize who it is happening to. But Bill is a white man and his reality is always going to be different than that of a African peoples living in Amerikkka. It's really just that simply.
And as Mos Def so aptly mentioned, we NEVER question what terrorists motivations are. I've always said that 9/11 didn't just happen out of thin air. What did the United States do COVERTLY to FUCK with another nation to the point hat they'd plan and pitch a large scale terror attack on the U.S. - And this is the discussion that never happens.
And, oh yeah, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE HAS GOT TO GO!!
49-year-old Jack Price was beaten so severely he suffered a broken jaw, ruptured spleen, every one of his ribs were fractured, and his lungs both collapsed. He languishes in a coma, on a ventilator, in a city hospital.
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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