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African American Documentaries
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:
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom (1996)
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)
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)
Blacking Up: Hip Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity (2010)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2002)
Chester Himes: A Rage in Harlem (2009)
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)Citizen King (2004)
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America (2009)
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003)
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)
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks (2000)
It’s a Damn Shame: Homosexuality in Hop-Hop (2006)
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)
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 Darker Side of Black (1996)
The Language You Cry In (1998)
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)
We Shall Overcome (1988)
(Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower, via diasporicroots)
“
Stokely told his audiences that one of the most important aspects of the struggle for Black Power was the right to define. Black people have been the victims of white America’s definitions. White people defined black people as inferior, as Negroes and niggers, as second-class citizens. By reacting to white America’s definitions, the blacks allowed themselves to be put in a bag which white America controlled. But now black people must demand the right to define themselves. White America has defined black as evil, Carmichael explains. “I have a little syllogism for that. According to America, everything black is evil; I am black, therefore, I am evil.”
“There is something wrong with that,” he goes on to explain, “because I am black and I am good.” He never fails to score heavily with his audience when he says that.
His favorite example of this always elicited a hysterical response, from both black and white audiences. “Here’s a perfect example of the power to define in action. During the civil rights movement, black leaders would say: ‘We want to integrate.’ And then white people would come along and define what integration means. They’d say: ‘You want to integrate? That means that you want to marry my daughter.’ What the Negro leaders had actually meant was that they wanted more jobs, better schools, housing, and an end to police brutality, and things like that. What we must do is define our own terms. We must not react to white definitions.
”Eldridge Cleaver on Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Taken from the book “Eldridge Cleaver: Target Zero” (pages 99-100)
(Source: disciplesofmalcolm, via im-afrotastic-darling)
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Pop: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood by Carol Ross
In 51 visually stunning, emotionally compelling portraits, acclaimed photographer Carol Ross presents a hopeful, heartwarming, and caring view of black fatherhood in the United States. In an era that pays little positive attention to black fathers, Ross’s inspirational perspective on the relationships between black men and their children is vitally important—and long overdue. Ross’s richly textured duotone photographs reveal a group of devoted fathers whose common bond is their profound love for their children. For her subjects, Ross has selected men from all walks of life—college professors, filmmakers, technicians, construction workers, and corporate executives—along with well-known music executives, directors, entertainers, and actors, such as Antonio L. A. Reid, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Funk Master Flex, Doug E. Doug, and Melvin Van Peebles. Film star Samuel L. Jackson, photographed with his daughter, provides the book’s foreword, and each portrait is accompanied by a poignant personal recollection by the father depicted. Exquisitely designed, Pop: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood finally gives black men their own voice about their experience as fathers. Inspired by her own father, Ross’s book is, in her words, “a round of applause, a bow, a ‘God bless you,’ ” to all those fathers who “take their children to that place where, one day, they can fly on their own.” [book link]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/eecdd4a12ca4f1925c246824e4c51e90/tumblr_mohq23Rvy01qzmh88o1_1280.jpg)
Pop: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood
by Carol Ross
In 51 visually stunning, emotionally compelling portraits, acclaimed photographer Carol Ross presents a hopeful, heartwarming, and caring view of black fatherhood in the United States. In an era that pays little positive attention to black fathers, Ross’s inspirational perspective on the relationships between black men and their children is vitally important—and long overdue.
Ross’s richly textured duotone photographs reveal a group of devoted fathers whose common bond is their profound love for their children. For her subjects, Ross has selected men from all walks of life—college professors, filmmakers, technicians, construction workers, and corporate executives—along with well-known music executives, directors, entertainers, and actors, such as Antonio L. A. Reid, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Funk Master Flex, Doug E. Doug, and Melvin Van Peebles. Film star Samuel L. Jackson, photographed with his daughter, provides the book’s foreword, and each portrait is accompanied by a poignant personal recollection by the father depicted.
Exquisitely designed, Pop: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood finally gives black men their own voice about their experience as fathers. Inspired by her own father, Ross’s book is, in her words, “a round of applause, a bow, a ‘God bless you,’ ” to all those fathers who “take their children to that place where, one day, they can fly on their own.” [book link
Indeeeeeeeed!
I’m gonna sing till the spirit moves in my heart.
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Baltimore’s first Pride since Maryland embraced marriage equality. (via The Advocate)
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“i think one
of the most pathological
things i have ever seen
is
to stab
someone
and then tell them that their
pain and anger
over being stabbed
is making you sad.”
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Missing. Searching. Being Found: Feminist texts written by women of color
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds…
for my Daughters…
