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Black History Month Programming
HBO is putting out a Documentary Film called "Unchained Memories: Readings From The Slave Narratives" It will have Angela Basset, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Sandra Daley, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, Samuel L. Jackson, CCH Pounder, LaTanya Richardson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Roger Guenveur Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Vanessa L. Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Alfre Woodard in it. It premieres Monday, February 10th at 8PM Eastern/7 Central.
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Black History Month Events 2003
On February 2nd and 3rd, there will be a National African American Read-in Chain. Join the chain to promote literacy during Black History Month. For more information, call: (217) 278-3635 or visit http://www.ncte.org
On Februrary 3rd, Black museums and colleges nationwide will be featuring a photographic tribute to nine African American AIDS activists, called "Heroes in the Struggle". For more information, call (213) 353-3610 or visit http://www.blackaids.org The Underground Railroad educational site at http://www.nationalgeographic.com has an interactive section that lets you click on the choices that slaves would have faced on the plantation or on the run. February 15th through 18th, in Anaheim, California, there will be a National Youth Summit on Preventing Violence. To learn how to help deter youth violence, or to learn more about the conference, call (202) 261-4165 or visit: http://www.ncpc.org/summit The Art of African Women: Empowering Traditions display of pottery, weaving, and handicrafts is at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture through March 30th. For more information, call (212) 491-2200. The Pope House Museum in Raleigh, NC was the home of a free Black Man who was the first lieutenant in an all-black regiment in the Spanish American War. (919) 833-4633 or http://www.thepopehousemuseum.org for more information. In bookstores right now: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due....also: Rock My Soul by Bell Hooks and Separate, but Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson. |
SOUNDER (2003 version) will be on ABC this Sunday starring Carl Lumbly and Suzanne Douglass (Parenthood, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) -- isn't she a member of Sigma Gamma Rho as well?
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"The Murder of Emmett Till" (Directed by Stanley Nelson. Premieres on PBS Monday, Jan. 20, 9 p.m. ET. Check local listings) Excerpt of Esther Iverem's review posted under "Bonus Reviews."
"...This is in-your-face history for those of us who run from it, who weren’t born in 1955 and wonder why we have to go there, for everybody who doesn’t understand that less than 50 years ago in Mississippi, a Black boy could be tortured, shot and drowned because he whistled at a White woman. And for those who remember the case well, Nelson offers, probably for the first time, interviews with witnesses who have never spoken publicly about the case..." |
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If you haven't seen it, please do! Teachers, you need to make this required viewing in your classes!! |
:( I forgot to tape it because I do plan to show it this Friday and next Monday.
Crap I need to see the schedule. Thanks Eclipse.:) |
From PBS.org
Ted Koppel anchors a live town meeting from Jasper, Texas, site of one of the most horrific hate crimes in recent memory, the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr. The program brings together members of the black and white communities of Jasper for a conversation with Koppel about race relations today.
America in Black and White: Jasper, Texas Members of the black and white community of Jasper, Texas, discuss the murder of James Byrd, Jr., a victim of a hate crime Jan 24 4:00am :eek: Emmitt Till's Website with Teacher Guides http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/ Hopefully they will rebroadcast this special. |
I cannot WAIT for the Slave Narratives, and I'm almost positive most of my professors will record these programs mentioned above and show them in class. I've been talking about the narratives since I first saw the commercial.:D
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I agree with you ladies on the importance of programming such as the narratives. I strongly feel that more youth need to grasp that slavery(particularly in the south) existed fairly recently. I think a lot of people make sweeping generalizations about southerners, not realizing that the slave mentality lingers for many reasons.... I will indeed be watching the HBO program.
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A&E and History Channel Programming
Black perspective from A&E:
02/01/01 Jackie Robinson 02/02/01 Rosa Parks, Mother of a Movement 02/05/01 Sally Hennings: Redefining History 02/06/01 Cinque: Freedom Fighter 02/07/01 Frederick Douglass 02/08/01 Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom 02/09/01 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream 02/12/01 Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All 02/13/01 Malcolm X: A Search for Identity 02/14/01 Colin Powell: A Soldier's Campaign 02/15/01 Muhammad Ali: The Greatest 02/16/01 An Evening with Harry Belafonte Black perspective on The History Channel: 02/02/01 Save our History: The Underground Railroad, Part 1 02/05/01 Frederick Douglass 02/06/01 Harlem Hellfighters 02/07/01 Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage 02/08/01 The Night Tulsa Burned 02/09/01 Save Our History: The Underground Railroad, Part 2 02/19/01 Murder in Memphis: Unanswered Questions 02/20/01 America's Black Warriors: Two Wars to Win |
Inside TVLand: African Americans in Comedy
Airs Friday, February 7, 2003 @ 8:00 p.m. EST. |
Miles Davis
If you didn't catch this biography on Bravo last night you missed it. Miles Davis was a genuis. The interviews and pictures from the archives really added so much insight into his life. I had no idea that he experienced so much discrimination. It's been an exceptional start to African American programming for Black History Month. If Bravo runs this again, don't miss it.
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Is it just me or does Black History Month seem to be getting no play this year? I mean, I see all the programs listed above, but if it weren't for you guys, I wouldn't even know about those. Usually, around this time we're bombarded with everyone jumping on the Black History Month bandwagon (i.e. commercials/ads from McDonald's, Ford, Prudential, fried chicken specials at your local grocery store (lol), etc...), but I haven't seen any of that this year. Is it because this country feels as if there are too many other important things going on like the impending war, shuttle explosion, and possible terrorist attacks? Or, maybe it really is just me. Help me out here. Have you noticed the lack of "enthusiasm" for BHM this year?
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That is why we need to be self-educated and in turn educate others about programs and events (not criticizing anyone). Every day I put on my board the Blacks born that day and a BLACK FACT and my kids learn indirectly without me harping on it too much. You would be surprised how much they DO NOT KNOW. Keep in mind, my classes are 90% Black students. |
Slave Narratives Air Dates & Website
ALL SHOWINGS, HBO/MAX East & West
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ROOTS is on
I just discovered that today it is on ALL DAY. IT is on the first episode now. . . they are in Mandinkan training.
Hallmark Channel So enjoy this Snow day and watch ROOTS with me. :D |
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New PBS program spotlights black Americans
Henry Louis Gates produced ‘America Beyond the Color Line’ http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Co...2p.hmedium.jpg Kathy Willens / AP Henry Louis Gates, Jr., head of Harvard University's African-American studies department and co-editor of the encyclopedia 'Africana,' website and CD-ROM, holds a copy of the encyclopedia. By Lynn Elber The Associated Press Updated: 2:45 p.m. ET Jan. 28, 2004LOS ANGELES - Ask scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. about the problems facing black Americans and how to fix them and the words pour out. He talks about personal responsibility, government obligation and how successful blacks must reach out to “brothers and sisters left behind.” But in “America Beyond the Color Line,” a four-part PBS documentary Gates wrote and produced, he gives others the floor. The mighty and rich, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, are heard. So, in equal measure, are those who often are voiceless. Giving voice to the voiceless Following in the footsteps of acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel, Gates lets people living with poverty, crime and stunted dreams tell their story and offer their answers. There’s the mother who, living with her daughter and grandchildren in a Chicago housing project, rises above its drugs and gangs. The young man who gave up crime to choose morality and minimum wage at a fast-food restaurant but sees little chance to advance. Meet the man who’s wasted much of his life behind bars: “If I was Jesse Jackson and I was trying to keep those black men from even going to prison, or trying to get them out of prison, I would encourage everybody in the neighborhood ... to grab a person that they feel needs help.” We also hear from those who have excelled. Gates talks with a successful young couple who moved from Detroit to Atlanta and are content to live in an affluent black neighborhood — a new kind of segregation but one they chose, not one forced upon them — and others who are emblematic of black achievement. Rooted in the here and now “America Beyond the Color Line” (airing 9-11 p.m. ET Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 3 and 4; check local listings) comes during Black History Month, when television remembers to pay attention to black Americans and usually does it literally: by relating the past. The documentary is firmly in the here and now, using history to illuminate where we stand and where we need to go. The first hour, “South: The Black Belt,” scrutinizes the region that was home to the civil rights movement and how it has changed for blacks who have returned, including actor Morgan Freeman and poet Maya Angelou. “Chicago: Streets of Heaven,” is the ironic title of a look at the poverty of the city’s South Side housing projects and the contrast with an expanding black middle class. Blacks who have emerged as political, business and cultural leaders, including Powell and Simmons, and what their success means for the overall progress of black America are featured in “East Coast: Ebony Towers.” In “Los Angeles: Black Hollywood,” the final hour, actors Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson and musician Alicia Keys are among those weighing in on the role of race in the entertainment industry. A companion book, “America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans” (Warner Books) compiles and extends Gates’ film interviews. The best of times, the worst of times What Gates found was both encouraging and discouraging, including a black middle class that is the largest in U.S. history but an underclass that is unchanged since the 1968 murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “For the African-American community, it’s the best of times, the worst of times,” Gates, a Harvard University professor and chairman of the school’s Department of Afro-American Studies, said in an interview. He was inspired in his quest by black leader and scholar W.E.B. DuBois’ contention that “the color line” between whites and blacks was the major 20th-century issue facing black Americans. Gates found a very different perspective emerging as he queried a broad cross-section of fellow 21st century blacks. “What was really interesting to me is that so many people focused on the poor choices that we as a people are making,” he said. “We can’t wait to be liberated by an Abraham Lincoln galloping down Main Street on a white horse anymore. “We have to reach into the community, insist we stay in school, learn our ABCs, learn our math tables, embrace deferred gratification, stay away from drugs, ignore the bling-bling and return to values that we were raised on.” In the 1950s and ’60s, he says, “getting an education was the blackest thing you could do. Our heroes were Martin Luther King, not basketball and football players. Everyone understood that the value added to the black community by a doctor and a lawyer was considerably greater” than that of an athlete. While Gates heaps demands on blacks — “Stop dropping out of school. Stop being homophobic, anti-Semitic, sexist” — he is equally hard on what he sees as the government’s inadequate response to black social and economic problems. “We need a moral and attitudinal evolution within the African-American community at the same time we’re insisting on comprehensive federal jobs programs, school reform and prison reform,” he said. Missing sense of urgency But the sense of urgency that once accompanied discussions of civil rights and black poverty is missing from the American dialogue, Gates acknowledged. “The growth of the black middle class has led many people to say, ‘See, the creme de la creme brulee, as it were, has risen to the top. And we’re not racist because look, there’s Colin Powell and Condie Rice and Vernon Jordan and (American Express Chairman) Ken Chenault,”’ he said. But that ignores reality, including the harsh truth in a city like Chicago, he said: One in five black men there is in prison, on probation or on parole and 45 percent of all black men between the ages of 20 to 24 are out of school and unemployed. Everyone must have a hand in finding solutions, Gates said. “This film is meant to be a wake-up call both to the American society at large and to the African-American community.” © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
Showtime Presents
CROWN HEIGHTS movie infomation provided by IMDb
Main Photos Trailer RATING: TVPG - VL SHOWTIME ADVISORIES: Violence, Adult Language, Adult Content Stereo / CCAP 1 h 29 m UPCOMING AIRDATES: Click on the airtime below if you would like an email reminder to watch. All times ET/PT. Showtime Feb 16 9:00 PM Showtime Feb 24 8:00 PM Showtime Feb 29 10:15 AM The tragic true story of three days of racial strife, riots and murder in Brooklyn between African-Americans and Hasidic Jews during the sweltering summer of 1991. Sparked by the accidental death of a young child in a car accident, the city erupts in a wave of hate - until two brave community leaders (Mario Van Peebles and Howie Mandel) step forward to quell the unrest with an outreach program that changes lives. Jeremy Blackman and Dequan Henderson costar in this stirring, fact-based family drama. DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Paul Kagan Story by: Michael D'Antonio Screenplay by: Toni Ann Johnson |
C-SPAN author interview series
Feb 8, 2004 - Sunday 8pm 11pm et Nikki Giovanni, The Collect Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1766 |
Please watch the Beah Richards doc on HBO. It's incredible! She was an amazing woman. If you are unfamiliar with her, please read her piece entitled, A Black Woman Speaks.
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HBO'S 2004 Black History Month Celebration Pays Tribute to African American Women
Thursday January 8, 11:14 am ET - Campaign to center around documentary, 'Beah: A Black Woman Speaks,' and contest created to honor the accomplishments of black women in local communities - NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- HBO's 2004 Black History Month celebration will highlight significant contributions made by African American women with key programming that spotlights their remarkable lives, the difficulties they faced and the positive changes their efforts have made. The campaign, "Hearing Her Voice, Telling Her Story," includes an essay contest that will honor everyday women. Additionally, HBO has joined forces with Essence Magazine to present special screenings of "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," featuring discussions with actress and director of the documentary, LisaGay Hamilton, that will focus on the unique challenges black women face today. The exclusive HBO documentary "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," which debuts on Feb. 25 and celebrates the life of acclaimed actress, poet and activist Beah Richards. "Paying tribute to the African American experience has been a long-standing commitment of HBO's," said Olivia Smashum, senior vice president, marketing & business development. "While we're focusing on the efforts and accomplishments of prominent black women, we wanted to open the doors to others on a community level who embody the same strengths and character. It is these women, who serve as daily role models, that need to be heard today." Also premiering during Black History Month is the documentary "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks" (Feb. 11) and a children's special about diversity, "Happy to be Nappy And Other Stories of Me" (Feb. 24). In addition, HBO will present encores of HBO Films' award winning "Miss Evers' Boys" (Feb. 9), the original documentaries "Lalee's Kin" (Feb. 7), "Unchained Memories: Readings From The Slave Narratives" (Feb. 16) and the critically acclaimed theatrical release "Antwone Fisher (Feb. 21). HBO Films' "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" (Feb. 9), "Boycott" (Feb. 10) and "The Josephine Baker Story" (Feb. 11) and will be presented on HBO2. |
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. Dr Gates showed the real face of Black America while demonstrating that while we are all individuals, our struggles are fundamentally the same. He was not preachy or trying to push an agenda; it was just real. I would LOVE to meet him and just rap.
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Did anyone catch LisaGay Hamilton's documentary of Ms. Richards?
It was very, very profound. At the end, 2 weeks before she died, she made a statement that really stayed with me. Her sentiments were in regards to those actors (they never really used actress in the documentary) and the roles they play. She said (not verbatim) that it doesn't matter what kind of role you play, but how you play it. I thought back to the flack Halle received for playing the role she did in Monster's Ball. What Beah said was that an actor is to find the GOOD in the role, regardless of what's in the script...regardless of the 'trash". I don't know if you all can follow, it's something you have to see/hear for yourself. It was truly, truly deep. I didn't know she went to Dillard. She said she hated her time here. Mind you, this was back in the 30s, 40s. :o |
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I was looking for the thread that mentioned the Beah Richards documentary! It was really good. I hope they repeat this, because it's something we all should see. It broke my heart when she had to move out of her house:( It struck me of how full of life she still was in her old age. You could see her mind was hard at work even though her body was weak. I wasn't really familiar with her until this documentary. I would love to see it again.
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Great Kings and Queens of Africa
Here is an article and link (http://www.abcorpaffairs.com/page.asp?p=5) on the Budweiser Kings and Queens of Africa educational materials. My parents bought this series for me and my sisters when we were growing up and it was a great resource for learning about our accomplishments before leaving Africa, which is part of our history as well. Now the information is apparently offered online for free! :)
The article is below. If you go to the link and click on "Great Kings and Queens" you will be able to access actual online information about great kings and queens of Africa. SC Great Kings and Queens of Africa Since 1975, the Budweiser Great Kings and Queens of Africa program has promoted cultural pride and cultural awareness, as well as an opportunity for African-American artists to share their talents. An art collection featuring 30 portraits of kings and queens, the program was created to help fill the void in the ancestral history of African-Americans by highlighting the richness of African history. All of the paintings in the series are created by African-American artists. The series debuted in 1975 with four Great Kings of Africa paintings; in , the series expanded to include Great Queens of Africa. This inclusion provided insight into the powerful role women played throughout African-American history. The program, in its entirety, has consistently been a focal point during Black History Month observances. Yet increasingly, individuals and organizations with an interest in this rich history have found a variety of opportunities to request an exhibition. Beginning in 2003, the Great Kings and Queens of Africa series will go on the road for viewing at museums, historical institutions and historically black colleges and universities. Today, as in 1975, the series highlights the essence of African-American history and continues to be viewed as an important and vital part of Anheuser-Busch’s commitment to supporting and promoting cultural heritage within the African-American community. |
Al Roker Presents/Bernie Mac Hosts/Samuel L Jackson Narrates
Honor Deferred on The History Channel, Saturday Feb. 11, 2006
Premieres: Saturday, February 11 @ 8pm ET/PT African-Americans have fought bravely for America throughout our history. But sadly, until recently, they didn't receive deserved commendations. This is the story of seven men who deserved the Medal of Honor for their valor during WWII, but only recently received their medals--six had already died. More than a million African-Americans served within the army's segregated ranks. Despite their bravery and courage, not one of the 432 Medal of Honors awarded went to a black soldier. Was the army racist? Did African-Americans receive appropriate training? We explore all these issues and more in breathtaking recreations as we document the stories of the seven black Congressional Medal of Honor winners. Vernon Baker is the last living awardee. Witness as President Clinton presents these medals to Baker and the proud family members of the other six. TVPG cc |
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