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The Rah Rah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com Dispatches From The Underground posterous.com Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:46:00 -0800 Jamal Joseph - "Panther Baby" Book Signing Event @ Columbia 2/17 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/dtDcrOXEJf8/jamal-joseph-panther-baby-book-signing-event http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/jamal-joseph-panther-baby-book-signing-event <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpwwwjamaljos_rmgxf" height="1224" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/clHuhtHHyEbmgxkoBtuGktnIdidmhbhcowzmuqDEEjDcpFzJcFpteAfwGkFe/media_httpwwwjamaljos_rmGxF.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="793" /> </div> <p />The evening will celebrate the release of the autobiography, Panther Baby, (Algonquin) with a conversation with the author, political activist Afeni Shakur, and Columbia faculty of political science and public affairs, Dorian Warren. IMPACT Repertory Theatre in Harlem will conclude the evening with a performance. Jamal Joseph, Film Faculty and the author of the illustrative biography Tupac Shakur Legacy (Atria, 2006) publishes a gripping memoir,Panther Baby. The book is an intimate account of Joseph’s coming of age within the Black Panther movement. His memoir recounts his compelling and illuminating personal odyssey.<div> <div><div><p /><div>I've had the pleasure of taking Jamal's Television writing workshop through the Harlem Arts Alliance- good dude!</div><div> <p><b>Friday February 17, 2012</b></p> <p><b>Miller Theatre</b></p><p><b>Columbia University</b></p> <p><b>116th & Broadway </b></p> <p><b>6:30PM</b></p></div></div></div></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/jamal-joseph-panther-baby-book-signing-event">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/jamal-joseph-panther-baby-book-signing-event#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/dtDcrOXEJf8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/jamal-joseph-panther-baby-book-signing-event Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:26:55 -0800 Zora Neale Hurston’s "Their Eyes Were Watching God" 75th Anniversary Celebration http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/_s5WGDc4PeY/zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpmediawnycor_wglbb" height="638" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/kfABjIrCCpnsqFyFzkhCEyivFhfjdrGHBJoHuEnjkEHnHpEhhrxcIHFypmyt/media_httpmediawnycor_wglBB.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="720" /> </div> <p /><div><span><strong style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of </strong></span><span><strong>Zora Neale Hurston’s </strong></span><span><strong>Their Eyes Were Watching God</strong></span><p /> <span><strong>Celebrate this seminal work from the American literary canon with live theater, conversations and more this season from The Greene Space.</strong></span><p /><span>FRI FEB 24 AT 7 PM</span><br /> <span><strong>I, Too, Sing America: Langston And Zora’s Unsung Collaboration</strong></span><br /><span>Host <strong>Terrance McKnight</strong> explores the music of the era through the lens of Langston Hughes and his close and controversial relationship with Zora Neale Hurston. </span><p /> <span>WED FEB 29 AND THU MAR 1 AT 7 PM</span><br /><span><strong>Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Radio Drama</strong></span><br /><span>Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson</span><br /> <span>Starring <strong>Brandon Dirdon</strong>, <strong>Phylicia Rashad</strong>, <strong>Roslyn Ruff</strong>, <strong>Leslie Uggams</strong> and others. Radio drama adapted by </span><br /><span>Arthur Yorinks. </span><p /> <span>WED MAR 14 AT 6 PM</span><br /><span><strong>A Literary Salon</strong></span><br /><span>Mix and mingle and enjoy readings from Their Eyes Were Watching God by poet and actor <strong>Carl Hancock Rux</strong>. </span><p /> <span>WED MAR 28 AT 7 PM</span><br /><span><strong>Women Writers on the Horizon</strong></span><br /><span>A conversation with <strong>Alice Walker</strong>, <strong>Sonia Sanchez</strong> and <strong>Ruby Dee</strong>, moderated by Zora Neale Hurston’s niece, </span><br /> <span><strong>Lucy Anne Hurston</strong>. </span><p /><b><span>The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space</span><br /><span>44 Charlton Street in SoHo</span></b><p /><span>Tickets and information at <a href="http://communications.wnyc.org/site/R?i=cKN0eHzLbEKBbvj69k8BGQ" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">thegreenespace.org/zora</a></span><br /> <p /></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/_s5WGDc4PeY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/zora-neale-hurstons-their-eyes-were-watching Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:01:20 -0800 Black History Month Television 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/vK93HOgNG_o/black-history-month-television-2012 http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-history-month-television-2012 <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpaamgovstedu_qabfo" height="448" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/JqCDFqybjhApukGjmoqIaDjHzCCprxEqfBygiivxcxqbptnuCbnHjfvICyCa/media_httpaamgovstedu_qAbfo.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="640" /> </div> </p> <p><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">Little</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"> </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">Rock</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"> schools were closed to avoid integration.</span></span></em></p> <h1 class="entry-title" style="font-size: 24px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Black History Month 2012 TV schedule</h1> <div style="font-size: medium; padding: 0px; margin: 10px;"> <div class="entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><em>Each Black History Month I usually put together a listing of Black HIstory Month - this year a lot had been going on, but luckily <a href="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/">Channel Guide</a> had done a good deal of the work for me and I have supplemented their listings with others I have found and will continue to do so as I find more.</em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;">Here are some notable new and returning television programs profiling memorable people, themes and events in African-American history, in celebration of Febr<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-44741" title="daisy" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/daisy.gif" height="371" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 1em;" width="300" />uary’s Black History Month. Programs and times are subject to change; check back throughout the month for updates and additions.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (encore) </strong><em>– PBS, February (check local listings). </em>Lolis Eric Elie, a New Orleans newspaperman, takes viewers on a tour of the city in what becomes a reflection on the relevance of history folded into a love letter to his storied neighborhood, Faubourg Tremé. Arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America and the birthplace of jazz, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South during slavery and a hotbed of political ferment. Here, black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor, cohabitated, collaborated and clashed to create America’s first civil rights movement and a unique American culture.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Independent Lens: “When I Rise” (encore) </strong><em>– PBS, February (check local listings).</em>This feature-length documentary is about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who found herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings (encore) </strong><em>– PBS, February (check local listings).</em>At the end of the American Revolution, thousands of African-American slaves risked everything to fight for the British in exchange for a promise of freedom. John Clarkson, a young Royal Navy lieutenant, was sent to North America by British abolitionists to fulfill that promise. According to plan, each slave would be resettled in Nova Scotia. However, when that frigid, rocky terrain proved inhospitable to those who had worked the cotton fields of the Deep South, Clarkson arranged for them to be transported across the Atlantic to Sierra Leone. Using journals, diaries and autobiographical accounts, writer-narrator Simon Schama reconstructs this epic journey. Dramatizations transport viewers from the slave plantations of Georgia to the bone-chilling cold of Nova Scotia to the trim parlors of Georgian England and finally to sweltering Sierra Leone, where Clarkson’s dreams of a haven for former slaves would come to a tragic end.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Third and a Mile: The History of the Black Quarterback (encore) </strong><em>– ESPN Classic, Feb. 2 at 5pm ET; Feb. 12 at 12:30pm ET; Feb. 18 at noon ET; Feb. 19 at 5pm ET. </em>A look at the history of the black quarterback, with interviews and clips of how black QBs have progressed through the NFL despite racism and stereotypes.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Brooklyn Boheme </strong><em>– Showtime,</em><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-44750" title="boheme" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/boheme.gif" height="200" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 1em;" width="300" /><em>Feb. 2 at 8:30pm ET/PT. </em>Noted filmmaker, historian and author Nelson George explores the Black arts movement that exploded in the famed Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the mid 1980s to ’90s, and launched the careers of such artists as filmmaker Spike Lee, comedian Chris Rock, musicians Branford Marsalis, Common, Erykah Badu and Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), among many others. This film kicks off Showtime’s Black History Month celebration, which will include documentaries and standup specials each Thursday and Friday in February.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Independent Lens: “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” </strong>(pictured at top of page) <em>– PBS, Feb. 2 at 10pm ET (check local listings). </em>As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was commonplace, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. This film tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself. Unconventional, revolutionary and egotistical, Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame, but paid dearly for it.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>The Black List: Volume Three (encore) </strong><em>HBO, Feb. 3 at 3:30pm ET/PT; Feb. 5 at 1pm ET/PT. </em>Following the same format as <em>The Black List: Volume One</em> and <em>Volume Two</em>, this documentary focuses on over a dozen prominent African-Americans as they speak their minds about a wide range of influences and experiences in this intimate series of first-person video portraits. Introduced via simple IDs, the interviewees speak directly into the camera and share their insights into what it was like growing up black in America, how their backgrounds shaped their philosophies, and what they feel about a society where new opportunities abound, but discrimination still exists.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Dogfights: “Tuskegee Airmen” (encore) </strong><em>– Military History Channel, Feb. 3 at 11pm ET; Feb. 4 at 9am & 3pm ET. </em>In the face of bigotry and ignorance, the Tuskegee Airmen — an all-black fighter squadron — shattered racist stereotypes. Their exploits became the stuff of legend during World War II. In this program, firsthand accounts, rare archival footage and computer graphics help bring to life their missions.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>The Express (encore) </strong><em>– BET, Feb. 4 at 7:30pm ET. </em>Rob Brown stars in this 2008 film based on the true story of Ernie Davis, the first black football player to win the Heisman Trophy. Dubbed the “Elmira Express” for his relentless drive, Davis also lived up to his nickname off the field as he battled for racial equality. Dennis Quaid costars as Syracuse coach Ben Schwartzwalder, who teaches Davis the game and in return learns much from his running back’s bold civil rights achievements.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (encore) </strong><em>– Centric, Feb. 5 at 9pm ET. </em>Based on the <em>New York Times </em>bestseller of the same name, this is a celebratory look at the lives of two African-American sisters, Sadie (Diahann Carroll) and Bessie Delany (Ruby Dee), from North Carolina, who each lived over a century. Having encountered firsthand discrimination based on their race and sex, the two sisters recall their support for each other and the various societal changes during their lifetimes.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Classroom: “Double Victory, Part 1″ </strong><em>– History, Feb. 6 at 6am ET/PT. </em>Cuba Gooding Jr. (<em>Red Tails</em>) narrates this documentary about the training, battles and lives of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Included is original wartime footage, interspersed with the words of the Airmen.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Sing Your Song (encore) </strong><em>– HBO, Feb. 6 at 8am ET/PT; Feb. 20, 6am ET/PT. </em>During the course of an inspiring life that has paralleled the American civil rights movement, artist and crusader Harry Belafonte has tirelessly used his humanitarian influence to advance causes of social justice, while forging a unique career punctuated by prestig<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-44757" title="still" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/still-185x300.gif" height="300" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-right: 1em;" width="185" />ious awards and industry firsts. Filmmaker Susanne Rostock tells the rich life story of this remarkable artist and humanitarian in this intimate, feature-length documentary.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Underground Rail</strong><strong>road: The William Still Story </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 6 at 10pm ET (check local listings).</em>Extraordinary people risked their lives to help fugitive slaves escape via the clandestine Underground Railroad. Among them was William Still of Philadelphia, a free black man who accepted delivery of transported crates containing human “cargo.” This documentary reveals some of the dramatic, lesser-known stories behind this humanitarian enterprise, and explores key Canadian connections, including the surprising fate of former slaves who crossed the border to “Freedom’s Land.”<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>American Experience: “Freedom Riders” (encore)</strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 7 at 8pm ET (check local listings). </em>This is a re-airing of the outstanding, Emmy-winning documentary. In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students — many of whom were the first in their families to attend a university — decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face-to-face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued the nation.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">“Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” – Tuesday, February 7 (8 p.m.) - The Documentary Channel</strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Crossing in St. Augustine - Feb 8 8 p.m. - BOUNCE TV. </span></strong></em></strong> Focuses on the impact of the civil rights movement in St. Augustine, Florida that culminated in a visit by Andrew Young at the request of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. Young was beaten and kicked in St. Augustine while attempting to cross at the corner of King Street and St. George Street to speak with police officers while leading a non-violent march.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">500 Years Later - Feb 8  - 10:30 p.m. BOUNCE TV. </span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">T</span><span style="font-size: 13px;">he multiple award-winning documentary, which was filmed on five continents and over twenty countries, tells the compelling story of the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.</span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">On The Shoulders of Giants- </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">Feb. 9</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>, 8:30 p.m. ET, Showtime</strong> — A documentary on the rise of the New York Renaissance Big Five (The Harlem Rens) — the first all-Black pro basketball team — produced by NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and narrated by Jamie Foxx.</span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Independent Lens: “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975″ </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 9 at 10pm ET (check local listings). </em>Combining startlingly fresh and candid 16 mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, ”Mixtape” looks at the people, society, culture and style that fueled an era of convulsive change, 1967-1975. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, this is a cinematic and musical journey into the black communities of America.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"> <object height="328" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="512"> <embed src="http://www-tc.pbs.org/s3/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="328" flashvars="video=2173098686&player=viral&end=0&lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0" width="512"></embed> </object> </p> <p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: #808080; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; padding: 10px;">Watch <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2173098686" target="_blank" style="color: #4eb2fe !important; text-decoration: none !important; height: 13px;">Looking Back at the Black Power Movement</a> on PBS. See more from <a href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens" target="_blank" style="color: #4eb2fe !important; text-decoration: none !important; height: 13px;">Independent Lens.</a></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Black Magic (encore) </strong><em>– ESPN Classic, Feb. 10 at 10pm ET; Feb. 11 at 7:30pm ET; Feb. 12 at 7:30pm ET. </em>This ESPN original documentary offers a look at the role and impact of Historically Black Colleges on professional basketball. Part 2 follows.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>The Jackie Robinson Story (encore) </strong><em>–  </em><em>ESPN Classic, Feb. 11 at 3:30am & 8:30am ET; Feb. 18 at 10:30am & 5pm ET. </em>Jackie Robinson plays himself in this 1950 biopic about how he became the first black major league baseball player. Ruby Dee costars.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Secret Game (encore) </strong><em>– ESPN Classic, Feb. 11 at noon ET; Feb. 17 at 10pm ET; Feb. 18 at midnight, 8pm & 10pm ET; Feb. 19 at midnight, 8pm & 10pm ET. </em>This documentary is about how, in 1944, a secret game was arranged between the all-white Duke University team and the team from N.C. College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University). For the time, the game was revolutionary, as the doors to the gym were locked, and no spectators were allowed. With the Klan being so active in Durham at the time, the game remained secret until now.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>A Race Story (encore) </strong><em>– ESPN Classic, Feb. 11, 1pm ET; Feb. 19 at 6pm ET. </em>ESPN’s original documentary looks at Wendell Scott’s historic ride to break the color barrier and become the only African-American driver to date to win a race in what is now the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Scott endured track officials who wouldn’t let him run, drivers who wrecked him and spectators who shouted slurs at him, but through dogged determination he persevered.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; font-size: 13px;">“The 27th Annual Stellar Awards Show” - </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; font-size: 13px;">February 11th at 7:00 pm - Gospel Music Channel - </span></strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">celebrates accomplishments in gospel music with some of the greatest artists in gospel. Hosted by Dorinda Clark Cole and Marvin Sapp, the show is filled with riveting performances from Kirk Franklin, Earnest Pugh, Fred Hammond, Ricky Dillard & New G, Richard Smallwood & Vision and more.</span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Images in Black and White (encore) </strong><em>– ESPN Classic, Feb. 12 at 8am ET. </em>This special looks at some of the most influential African-American sports personalities, through pictures.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Soul Mates: Dr. Maya Angelou and Common </strong><em>– BET, Feb. 12 at 11am ET. </em>BET News brings together literary master Dr. Maya Angelou with celebrated hip-hop artist Common, and the result is exclusive access to one of the most accomplished African-American figures of our time relayed by one of today’s most popular artists.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left;">Feb. 12, 9 p.m. (Smithsonian). “MLK: The Assassination Tapes.” Material from the days around </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Martin+Luther+King+Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr." style="color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Dr. Martin Luther King</a><span style="text-align: left;">’s death, some not heard since the late 1960s.</span><span style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Joe Louis: America’s Hero…Betrayed (encore) </strong><em>– HBO, Feb. 13 at 6am ET/PT.</em>Joseph Louis Barrow — who became known as the “Brown Bomber” — was America’s first true crossover athlete. As the first black sports star worshipped by both black and white fans, he was respected not only for his boxing talents, but also for showing the world what a person of color could do if given the opportunity. This film underscores his importance during a critical time in America’s history. From the Great Depression through World War II and into the 1950s, Joe Louis was the poster boy for the American way of life. In 1938, when Louis defeated Germany’s Max Schmeling, his victory was interpreted as democracy’s defeat of Nazism, boosting public morale and transforming him into a true American hero.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>The 2012 BET Honors </strong><em>– BET, Feb. 13 at 9pm ET. </em>Actress Gabrielle Union hosts the<a href="http://www.bet.com/shows/bet-honors/2012.html" target="_blank" style="color: #f47d2b; text-decoration: none;">fifth annual installment of this event</a> that celebrates the outstanding achievements of African-American figures in music, literature, entertainment, media, service and education. This year’s honorees are poet/author Maya Angelou (Literary Arts); musician Stevie Wonder (Musical Arts); singer Mariah Carey (Entertainer); filmmaker Spike Lee (Media); World War II fighter-pilot squad the Tuskegee Airmen (Service); and coach and mentor Beverly Kearney (Education). Performances will be given by Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Cicely Tyson and Common, with appearances by Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Willow Smith.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Slavery By Another Name </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 13 at 9pm ET (check local listings). </em>A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012 (where its director, Sam Pollard, received a nearly two-minute standing ovation after the film’s screening), this new documentary based on the <a href="http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #f47d2b; text-decoration: none;">Pulitzer Prize-winning book</a> by <em>Wall Street Journal</em> senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. Blackmon examines the concept of “neoslavery,” which sentenced African-Americans to forced labor for violating an array of laws that criminalized their everyday behavior. Actor Laurence Fishburne narrates.<strong> </strong><em> </em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><em> </em><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>THE LOVING STORY Tuesday, FEB. 14 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT) - HBO  - </strong>In many ways, Richard and Mildred Loving were a typical couple. They grew up in the same Virginia town, fell in love and decided to cement their relationship by marrying. Because she was part-black and part-Native American, and he was white, however, their 1958 marriage was declared illegal by their home state. But the Lovings fought back and ultimately changed history through a watershed Supreme Court case that overturned bans on interracial marriage in 16 states.  Other HBO playdates: Feb. 14 (5:15 a.m.), 18 (3:30 p.m.), 23 (1:00 p.m.), 26 (9:00 a.m.) and 29 (12:30 a.m.)</span></p> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h62ZBiHNJoM" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">“Stand” – Tuesday, February 14 (8 p.m.) - The Documentary Channel</strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><em> </em><strong>Frontline: “The Interrupters” </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 14 at 9pm ET (check local listings). </em>This critically acclaimed (though snubbed by the Oscar nomin<strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-44761" title="interrupters" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interrupters.gif" height="169" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 1em;" width="300" /></strong>ating committee) documentary follows a group of former gang leaders in Chicago who try to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they themselves once committed. Steve James (<em>Hoop Dreams</em>) directs this compelling observational journey into the stubborn, persistent violence that plagues our American cities.<strong><br /></strong></p> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sXmm0MZLGxY" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>How We Got Over - </em></span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 15 8 p.m. - Bounce TV</span></strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px;">uses unique archival footage - mostly unseen since the time of its original broadcast in the 1950s and '60s - to re-frame the story of the civil rights struggle and bring our nation's struggle for racial equality to life. </span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em>Wild Women Don't Have The Blues </em></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>- </em></span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 15 9 p.m</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> - Bounce TV</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> details how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life.  The lives of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter and other music legends are showcased. </span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em>Freedom on My Mind  - Feb. 15 10:30 p.m. - Bounce TV </em></strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em> </em></strong><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;">Heart of Stone - Feb. 16, 8:30 p.m. ET, Showtime </strong><span style="font-size: 13px;">— Chronicles the journey of Ron Stone, a high school principal who transformed one of the most violent schools in the country to an academic powerhouse.</span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Independent Lens: “More Than a Month” </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 16 at 10pm ET (check local listings). </em>Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black<strong> </strong>History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, <em>More Than a Month</em> investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.<em><br /></em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>The 43rd NAACP Image Awards </strong><em>– NBC, Feb. 17, Live at 8pm ET. </em>This <a href="http://www.naacpimageawards.net/43/home/" target="_blank" style="color: #f47d2b; text-decoration: none;">special</a>showcases the best achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, featuring a star-studded lineup of performers, winners and presenters. For a list of nominees and special honorees, <a href="http://www.naacpimageawards.net/43/nominees-and-honorees/" target="_blank" style="color: #f47d2b; text-decoration: none;">click here</a>.<em> </em></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><em> </em><strong>BET Takes Hollywood </strong><em>– BET, Feb. 17 at 10pm ET. </em>BET’s first Oscar special looks at this year’s nominees Viola Davis (nominated for Best Actress in <em>The Help</em>) and Octavia Spencer (nominated for Best Supporting Actress in <em>The Help</em>). Veteran celebrity journalist Shaun Robinson of <em>Access Hollywood </em>sits down with each of the major African-American nominees of 2012 to discuss their race to the Academy Awards.<strong> </strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">A Cross to Bear - </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; font-size: 13px;">Saturday, February 18th at 7:00 pm EST - Gospel Music Channel - </span></strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; font-size: 13px;">an original GMC World Premiere Movie starring Kim Fields, Malinda Williams, Jackie Long and featuring newcomer Danielle Deadwyler tells the unflinching and inspiring story of Erica (Deadwyler) a would-be dancer with no family connections who finds herself fighting alcoholism and living on the streets with her newborn child after being left by her boyfriend. With </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> the guidance of other women who have found new beginnings at Joan’s </span><span class="wp_keywordlink" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/tag/house-ratings/" title="House" style="text-decoration: none; color: #0645ad; font-weight: bold;">House</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">, Erica finds the will to live and learns the redemptive power of forgiveness. </span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Soul Power </strong><em>– Centric, Feb. 19 at 9pm ET. </em>This legendary music festival (dubbed Zaire ’74) featured such musical luminaries as James Brown, B.B. King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz and a host of others. At the peak of their talents and the height of their careers, these artists were inspired by this to return to their African roots, as well as the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, to give the performance of their lives. The concert has achieved almost mythological significance in the minds of some as the definitive Africa(n)-American musical event of the 20th century.</p> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/omdJ-0qZbSA" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">“Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons” – Tuesday, February 21 (8 p.m.) - The Documentary Channel</strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>The Hip Hop Project</em></span></strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> - </span></strong><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 22 8 p.m. - Bounce TV - </span></strong></strong><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">the dynamic and inspirational story of a group of New York City teenagers who transform their life stories into powerful works of art, using hip hop as a vehicle for self-development and personal discovery. </span></strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600;"><em>The Real: Rucker Park Legends</em></strong></span></strong><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> - Feb. 22 -</span></strong><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> </span></strong><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">has been called "The best work ever done on inner city basketball." It offers historical insight into the importance of Harlem's legendary Rucker Park and its Stay in School basketball tournament and league as well as its' famous "Each One Teach One" program, pairing up basketball's greats with disadvantaged youth.</span></strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Phunny Business: A Black Comedy </strong><em>– Showtime, Feb. 23 at 8:30pm ET/PT.</em>Writer/director/producer John Davies’ docu-comedy is a bitters<em><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-44770" title="phunny" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/phunny.gif" height="214" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 1em;" width="300" /></em>weet Valentine to Chicago’s All Jokes Aside — which, for a decade, was one of the preeminent comedy clubs in the country, gave early exposure to important young comedians and was the most influential black comic showcase in America. With no comedy clubs booking minority acts on a regular basis at the time, the 300-seat venue in Chicago’s South Loop filled a void by showcasing black talent and entertaining black audiences in an upscale setting. This mostly unheralded “star factory” introduced audiences to future household names like Steve Harvey, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Mo’Nique, Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer and many more. Eventually, All Jok<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44777" title="cab" src="http://www.channelguidemagblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cab-150x195.gif" height="195" alt="" style="border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0.5em; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 1em;" width="150" />es Aside closed, but the artists and entertainers never forgot, and several of them nostalgically share memories and relive the glory days in the film, which incorporates stills, archival performance footage and interviews. </p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">BE INSPIRED: THE LIFE OF HEAVY D</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">– Premieres Sunday, February 26 at 11:00 p.m.* on CENTRIC. This one‐hour documentary chronicles the prolific life and career of Dwight “Heavy D” Myers. Family members as well as artists such as Will Smith, Mary J. Blige, Eddie F., Queen Latifah and many others will reflect upon Heavy’s life through his most popular songs, music videos, and his television, stage and film performances. Heavy’s final tweet was “Be Inspired,” a poignant phrase for the man who lived his life inspiring so many people.</span></p> <p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px;"><strong>HIP HOP: A CULTURAL ODYESSY</strong> – Premieres Sunday, February 26 at 12:00 a.m.* on CENTRIC. This one-hour documentary, based on the recently released Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey book, traces the origins, evolution, and spirit of hip hop and the prolific artists that changed the music industry forever. In a round table discussion, hip hop aficionados will be given a chance to see industry pioneers such as Doug E. Fresh, DJ Hollywood and Big Daddy Kane reminisce and reflect about what hip-hop was back in the day, the road blocks they faced and how they feel about where hip hop is today—while Dr. Cornell West and Reverend Al Sharpton reflect on how hip hop served as a sounding board for activism and rhetoric on both political and historical benchmarks throughout time.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong>American Masters: “Cab Calloway: Sketches” </strong><em>– PBS, Feb. 27 at 10pm ET; March 2, 9pm ET (check local listings).</em>This new episode profiles Cab Calloway, the legendary jazz artist who was one of the first black musicians to tour the segregationist South and who was a regular performer at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">“Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat By The Door” – Tuesday, February 28 (8 p.m.) - The Documentary Channel. </strong>A captivating film that examines the conspiracy and controversy behind a Hollywood picture about a black revolution shut down by the FBI due to its subject matter.</p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>The History Makers: Faith - </em></span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 29 8.pm -</span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em> </em></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">leads off the night as the first of two documentaries from the Russell Simmons High Self Series that features African Americans who changed the world. <strong style="font-weight: 600;"><em>Faith</em></strong> centers on the importance of faith in both oneself and a higher being to achieve the impossible. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., B.B. King, Susan L. Taylor, Rev. Al Sharpton, Kim Fields, Marva Collins among others are featured.</span></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 600;"><em>T</em></strong></span><strong style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em>he History Makers: Courage</em></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">  </span><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>- </em></span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 29 </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">follows immediately and features Harry Belafonte, Vernon Jordan, Nikki Giovanni, B.B. King, and Angela Davis who tell, or are featured in,</span><strong style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em> Courage's</em></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> triumphant stories of overcoming struggles and repression.</span><strong style="font-size: 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"> </strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 22px; font-weight: 600;"><em>Crossing in St. Augustine </em></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><em>- </em></span></strong><strong style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Feb. 29 </span></strong></p> <p style="padding: 10px; margin: 0px;"> </p> </div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-history-month-television-2012">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-history-month-television-2012#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/vK93HOgNG_o" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-history-month-television-2012 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:40 -0800 Pixelating: Indie Films in Black Screening Series http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/KvXI0KCCxhM/pixelating-indie-films-in-black-screening-ser http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/pixelating-indie-films-in-black-screening-ser <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/FtJkCedrwHbsvBbcqtBAfjiAvxjgbneAvCtJlqGoxwHHrrJfwhHnjxvChCAo/media_httpmocadaorgwp_pgvpr.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpmocadaorgwp_pgvpr" height="449" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/FtJkCedrwHbsvBbcqtBAfjiAvxjgbneAvCtJlqGoxwHHrrJfwhHnjxvChCAo/media_httpmocadaorgwp_pgvpr.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /></a> </div> <p /><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(92,92,92); font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">MoCADA and Black Public Media (BPM) present <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Pixelating: Indie Films in Black</em>, a series of screenings held in the month of February in honor of Black History Month.</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;"><b><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32104199?portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="554" width="980"></iframe></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(92,92,92); font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> Screening throughout various venues in Brooklyn and New York City, this film series couples independently produced films with web series to promote and highlight emerging Black voices in film and television. Following each screening, join a discussion with the directors, producers, and players that make this series possible. All screenings are free and open to the public.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(92,92,92); font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">SCHEDULE</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255,204,153);"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">DAY 1</strong></span><br /> <a href="http://mocada.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Header-for-pixelating.jpg" rel="fancybox-2698" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);"></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Saturday, February 4 | 4:00 – 6:00pm</strong><br /> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> FEATURE: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty</em> | Directed by Terence Nance</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> In <a href="http://oversimplification.mvmt.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty</em></a>, Terence Nance creates a multi-media film that puts you in the shoes of a quixotic young man, as fantasies, emotions, and memories, race through his mind during this singular moment in time. Selected for the 2012 <a href="http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/120135/an_oversimplification_of_her_beauty" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);">Sundance Film Festival</a>, this will be the New York premier.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> *Image credit | Film still from <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty</em></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> WEB SERIES: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl </em>| Created by Issa Rae</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <a href="http://awkwardblackgirl.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl</em></a> follows the title character and friends as they navigate through life, love and awkward situations. With the catch phrase: “We’re all awkward in our own way; it’s natural,” this popular web series created by Issa Rae portrays life’s uncomfortable and challenging situations.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255,204,153);"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">DAY 2</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Thursday, February 10 | 6:30 – 8:30pm</strong><br /> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">CUNY Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> FEATURE: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin | Directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> This documentary reflects on the life of <a href="http://rustin.org/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);">Bayard Rustin</a>, master strategist and tireless activist, best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Helping mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international peace symbol, he suffered backlash for being an openly gay man.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> WEB SERIES: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Mondo Black</em>: “Black Queer & Beyond” | Produced by Gabriel Tolliver, BPM</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://mondoblack.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);">Mondo Black </a></em>gets up close and personal with Jomama Jones, “more diva starlet than drag queen”– and visits with award-winning poet, writer, performer and actress Pamela Sneed to discuss international activism, gender identification, and the written and spoken word.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255,204,153);"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">DAY 3</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Saturday, February 25 | 4:00 – 6:00pm</strong><br /> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn</strong></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> FEATURE: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Medicine for Melancholy</em> | Directed by Barry Jenkins</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> This <a href="http://www.strikeanywherefilms.com/?p=42" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);">feature film</a> is a love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> WEB SERIES: <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Habesha Life</em> | Created by Ambessa Jir Berhe</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/habeshalife" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(227,165,102);"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Habesha Life</em> </a>is an episodic online short film series. The story is about social interactions of a group of young habesha/abesha (Ethiopian and Eritrean people) in and around the Washington, DC Metro Area.</p> <p></p><p /></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/pixelating-indie-films-in-black-screening-ser">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/pixelating-indie-films-in-black-screening-ser#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/KvXI0KCCxhM" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/pixelating-indie-films-in-black-screening-ser Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:33:00 -0800 "Black Power Mixtape" #FREE Screening @BronxMuseum Feb 3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/m5ZF0tR-f1s/black-power-mixtape-free-screening-bronxmuseu http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-power-mixtape-free-screening-bronxmuseu <p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-29319" title="Black_Power_Mixtape_bronx_poster" src="http://static.okayplayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Black_Power_Mixtape_bronx_poster.jpg" height="806" alt="" width="600" /></p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"> <p>One week from today the Bronx Museum is hosting a free screening of the treasure trove of cinematic revolution that is Black Power Mixtape as part of a whole program that features appearances from <strong>DJ Revolution</strong>, <strong>Latasha Diggs</strong> of <strong>Burnt Sugar</strong> fame and more goodies (full details after the jump). The whole thing runs from roughly 6-10pm next Friday February 3rd.</p> <p><span> </span></p> <p>FIRST FRIDAYS!<br /> The Black Power Mixtape<br /> Film screening honoring Black History Month<br /> FREE!</p> <p>THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them—the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Music by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African-American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle – including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles – give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.</p> <p>6:00pm DJ Revolution spins on the 1’s & 2’s (Soul, Classic R&B, Hip-Hop)<br /> 6:45pm Welcome Remarks<br /> 6:50pm Screening of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (100 min)<br /> 8:30pm Q&A with film co-producer Joslyn Barnes (Louverture Films)<br /> 8:45pm Performance: GIF (HABANA/HARLEM®)<br /> 9:00pm Performance: Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (Burnt Sugar, Black Earth Institute)<br /> 9:15pm Performance: Mahogany L. Browne (PoetCD.Com/Nuyorican Poets Café)<br /> 9:30pm Performance: M.C. K~Swift (New Rap Order/ Universal Zulu Nation)<br /> 9:45pm Closing Remarks<br /> 2nd Floor – North Wing<br /> Produced by Asho Productions.</p> </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.okayplayer.com/news/nyc-black-power-mixtape-screening-at-the-bronx-museum-23.html">okayplayer.com</a></div> <p> </p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-power-mixtape-free-screening-bronxmuseu">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-power-mixtape-free-screening-bronxmuseu#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/m5ZF0tR-f1s" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/black-power-mixtape-free-screening-bronxmuseu Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:51:00 -0800 Dope Music: D’Angelo Live! Mixtape http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/mK2WrgW2IwY/dope-music-dangelo-live-mixtape http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-dangelo-live-mixtape <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="" src="http://static.okayplayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/dangelo_x_sam_champ_live_mixtape.jpg" /> </div> </p> <div><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F35001211&show_artwork=true" frameborder="no" height="166" width="100%"></iframe></div> <p /> <div>All the way live via @okayplayer </div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-dangelo-live-mixtape">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-dangelo-live-mixtape#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/mK2WrgW2IwY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-dangelo-live-mixtape Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:25:23 -0800 Must See Web TV: Bryant Terry's Urban Organic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/Bt1_lgBr1f8/must-see-web-tv-bryant-terrys-urban-organic http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/must-see-web-tv-bryant-terrys-urban-organic <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpvegnewscomw_ihlxp" height="225" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/zDcEnzckEoqzxrvsJDzoIpuxoHewbxzpIueaheuhEyoFGwEqtatxAupnbuwp/media_httpvegnewscomw_IHlxp.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="381" /> </div> <br /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8jnflDWICMA?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div> <p /><div><span style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the premiere episode, author/chef/activist, <a href="http://www.bryant-terry.com/" target="_blank">Bryant Terry</a> visits an aquaponics farm in Oakland, California’s Mosswood Park. Urban Organic is a three part series that features cutting-edge chefs, urban farmers and social innovators who are bringing urban agriculture to neighborhoods in America that need them most.</span></div> <p /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">Terry's </span><i>nouveau</i><span style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> collard green recipe <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Citrus-Collards-with-Raisins-Redux-352451" target="_blank">Citrus Collards with Raisins Redux</a> from his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Soul-Kitchen-Creative-African-American/dp/0738212288/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327503871&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><i>Vegan Soul Kitchen</i></a> is a remix on what I refer to as "The Trinity" - collard greens, macaroni & cheese, and</span><span style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> candid yams. It changed my perspective completely on how I could enjoy the food of my culture, my community, and my youth. I've never cooked collards the same way again and I've never looked at food in quite the same way again. </span><span style="color: rgb(34,34,34); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In 2010, for the first time in my life I started cooking my own food not exclusively from a box or a can. I felt the best I'd ever felt in my life - both physically & mentally. I was taking control of my life. </span><span style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px; border-right-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px; border-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; margin-right: 0px; border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I was so inspired by the book that I gave his book as a Christmas gift that year to all my friends. In 2011, I got away from cooking and ended up in the hospital. While the </span><span style="line-height: 15px;">causation is not that direct, there is no doubt that my diet did not help my declining health.</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> In 2012 I'm back to taking control again. Just in time,</span></span><span style="">Terry has released a new cookbook </span><span style="border-top-style: none; text-align: left; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 17px; margin-right: 0px; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Vegan-Seasonal-Ingredients-Mouthwatering/dp/0738213756/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327464190&sr=8-1" target="_blank" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; margin-right: 0px; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; border-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Inspired Vegan</a><i>, </i>which I am waiting for in the mail from Amazon. </span></div> <p /><div><span style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border-right-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px; border-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; margin-right: 0px; line-height: 17px; border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px;">In his latest book </span><span style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border-right-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px; border-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; margin-right: 0px; line-height: 17px; border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px;">Terry is approaching "The Trinity" again with his recipe for </span><b style="line-height: 36px; text-align: left; color: rgb(51,51,51);">Molasses, Miso and Maple-Candied Sweet Potatoes. </b><span style="line-height: 36px; text-align: left; color: rgb(51,51,51);"> Can't wat to see if this Asian-twist on traditional candied yams does for me what his collard recipe did. </span></div> <div><span style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border-right-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 0px; border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpihuffpostco_gzkdc" height="400" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/AzIABkygHofHzDzAqqicBEaDFFDwGgGDxtzGxofAnHtbjesGxxCxazbtIhfI/media_httpihuffpostco_Gzkdc.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="550" /> </div> </i></span></div> <div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <strong style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; border-right-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 36px; text-align: left;">Molasses, Miso and Maple-Candied Sweet Potatoes</b></strong></blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><strong style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; border-right-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;">Yield</strong><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;"> <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">4 to 6 servings </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 17px;"><b><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; margin-right: 0px; border-left-style: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /> </b></span><em style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; border-right-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;">Candied Sweet Potatoes is a popular side dish often served on holidays in the South. This everyday version makes use of two staples of Japanese cooking -- tamari (wheat-free soy sauce) and Miso (fermented soy bean paste) -- to give this recipe an Asian twist. Sesame oil seals the deal. One might imagine the taste of these strong ingredients overpowering the combination of cinnamon, sugar, molasses, and maple. But the complex, multi-layered flavors coexist harmoniously and yield a perfect balance of sweet and savory. The sweet potatoes are roasted first to caramelize their exterior and bring out their inherent earthy sweetness. Next the liquid is used to baste the sweet potatoes for over half an hour to ensure that they are moist. Result: Slammin'.</em><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;"> </span></blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">2 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes or garnet yams, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch rounds <br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1 2-inch cinnamon stick <br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">2 tablespoons molasses <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1 teaspoon tamari or tamari <br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">2 tablespoons pure maple syrup <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1 heaping tablespoon white or yellow miso <br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice <br /></span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">1/4 teaspoon grated lemon zest <br /> </span><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">6 tablespoons filtered water </span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">Preheat the oven to 425°F. </span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">In a large bowl, toss the yams with 1 tablespoon of the sesame oil. </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">Spread the sweet potatoes on a parchment-lined or well-greased baking sheet in a single layer and roast for 50 minutes, turning over with a fork after 25 minutes. </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">Remove the sweet potatoes from the oven and reduce the heat to 375°F. </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">Place the cinnamon stick at the bottom of a 2-quart baking dish, and add the sweet potatoes in layers. Set aside. </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">In a medium bowl, whisk together the, molasses, tamari, maple syrup, miso, orange juice, lemon juice, lemon zest, water, and the remaining tablespoon of sesame oil. Pour over the sweet potatoes. </span><br style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 4px; border-right-style: none; display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-left-style: none; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 0px;" /> <span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;">Bake uncovered, for 30 minutes, thoroughly basting the sweet potatoes every 10 minutes.</span></blockquote> <p /><div><span style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out some more recipes from the new book and another collard recipe I'm excited to try over on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/bryant-terry-inspired-vegan-sunday-dinner_n_1207294.html#s611691&title=BlackEyed_Peas_in" target="_blank">HuffPo</a>.</span></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/must-see-web-tv-bryant-terrys-urban-organic">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/must-see-web-tv-bryant-terrys-urban-organic#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/Bt1_lgBr1f8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/must-see-web-tv-bryant-terrys-urban-organic Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:47 -0800 Dope Music: Kendrick Lamar - "His Pain" http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/XOzDd-xv69U/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain <p> <div class='p_embed p_audio_embed'> <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <span class='p_id3'><strong>His Pain F. Kendrick Lamar</strong> by Bj The Chicago Kid</span> <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain">Listen on Posterous</a> </div> </div> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpsunsetinthe_sjeng" height="379" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/laFhiAttEieibFyttnuqhGdradzpbIEqcJucxzmlzcEqgogufpnitbwjyqqa/media_httpsunsetinthe_sjenG.jpeg.scaled980.jpg" width="500" /> </div> </p><p /><div><div> This joint is simultaneously jazzy, bluesy and could fit right in at your local church's praise and worship service. </div> <p /><div><div>I'd heard the buzz on Kendrick Lamar for a while, but mostly ignored it. On the strength of this I'm officially on the bandwagon and have gone back and started checking out some of his old stuff. </div> </div><p /><div>Not the first time he's delved into religion check out his joints <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27HVvRUMy7E" target="_blank">"Faith"</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=695Dxe6LXMA" target="_blank">"Kush and Corinthians"</a> - the original collabo with BJ the Chicago Kid</div> <p /><div><b>I don't why He keeps blessing me ... so I can bless you.</b><br /><p /><p /><div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><b>Kendrick Lamar Talks About Religion And Faith In His Music<br /> </b><b>DX:</b> On the same song, you say, “Ministers tried to save me. How I’m gon’ listen when I don’t even hear God.” You also talk about God in other tracks. What has been your relationship with religion in your life?<p /> <b>Kendrick Lamar:</b> I intend to put that in my music because that's a part of me that I cannot hide. I had a record on my first EP called "Faith." I tend to put the record amid record about that because we're scared to talk about going in and out of faith with a higher power because there are certain moments in life are we feel that everything crumbles and we feel like there's no help, no where, not physical, mental or spiritual form. I felt I needed to put that because I’m a person right now-me as a person, not even an artist-I’m just somebody looking for answers. I think that’s why people can relate to me. I believe in a higher power. But, I am human at the same time and I go through things where I’m like, “damn, why is this happening to me?” That’s emotion and that’s how I vent. I vent through the music. I sit down in my room after I write records like that and I pray about it to help me better myself, and my strength with God, my relationship.<br /> <b>DX: </b>Right. On “Faith,” you talk about walking out of church feeling like you were free from sin but then getting a phone call that a homie was murdered, you lose faith again. I think that speaks to the ups and downs of the world. What helps you cope with the downs when you’re going through them?<br /> <b>Kendrick Lamar:</b> My family, man. My family. When I think about me going through downs, I always think about somebody going through a greater turmoil than I’m going through. I think about that, I think about my family and I know there’s a greater person, a greater power within myself that I have to build on. I know I can’t be selfish and dwell. I can feel down but I can’t sit and dwell on it. Everybody has sorrows but when you dwell on it and harp on it, that’s time consuming. That’s tedious. There are people that don’t even have homes. (via <a>Hip Hop DX</a>)</blockquote> <div> </div> </div><p /><p /> <p /></div></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/XOzDd-xv69U" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-kendrick-lamar-his-pain Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:42:04 -0800 Dope Flick: Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/h5NhaLqIFe0/dope-flick-miriam-makeba-mama-africa http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-miriam-makeba-mama-africa <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpiamediaimdb_egzuc" height="1004" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/HaaxgvzjFbleJrjxxzxoEgyJcBDpHvbzjhmysJEHngByzBzJrdGJsztponhG/media_httpiamediaimdb_eGzuC.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="640" /> </div> <p /><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4rEt3aSCjHw?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div><p /><div>This doc traces Makeba's roots in South Africa, years in exile, rise to prominence in America and then her unceremonious dismissal because of her marriage to Stokely Carmichael, and cements her legacy as the voice of a music and a movement.</div> <p /><div>This doc could have easily gone on for another hour - I would have liked to hear more about her later life and work including collaborations with her 2nd husband Hugh Masekela and others. </div><p /><div>This has definitely set me on the course to explore some of her earlier, more jazzy, yet heavily South African inflected work.</div><p /><div><div>Use <a href="http://translate.google.com/">Google Translate</a> on the subtitles when there is no English </div> <p /><div>Spotted on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/social/blog/africasacountry" title="Africa is a Country" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(235,235,235); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(28,98,185); text-decoration: none; display: inline!important; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Africa is a Country</a></div> <p /></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-miriam-makeba-mama-africa">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-miriam-makeba-mama-africa#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/h5NhaLqIFe0" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-miriam-makeba-mama-africa Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:36:39 -0800 Hip Hop Inspired Art + Food @FEAST_Brooklyn on Sat 1/21 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/nF2X6U7r6bc/hip-hop-inspired-art-food-feastbrooklyn-on-sa http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-inspired-art-food-feastbrooklyn-on-sa <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/eqJppdkacFCChiivsEqACAlHIkzEsgdqomhxHaqeelvdfxCtfIEzjEGrezaG/media_httpgallerymail_yvrxo.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpgallerymail_yvrxo" height="737" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/eqJppdkacFCChiivsEqACAlHIkzEsgdqomhxHaqeelvdfxCtfIEzjEGrezaG/media_httpgallerymail_yvrxo.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /></a> </div> <p /><div>COME OUT AND SUPPORT! The super-fresh, international women's printmakers collective (<a href="http://shanipeters.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=93d4254d8c96acb98c0273c5b&id=ccee87897d&e=b2afef2e88"><span class="s1">Grapevine INK</span></a>) will present their hip-hop inspired project <b>“Represent: I’m Shanté” </b>at this weekend's FEAST #12 event in Brooklyn. It's only $20 for dinner, art, and good times. You vote and they get the dough to make their project a reality. </div> <p /><div>The <b>“Represent: I’m Shanté” </b>project brings skilled printmakers (interdisciplinary artist, Shani Peters, interdisciplinary artist/graffiti writer Elena Stojanova, and vocalist/break-dancer Kelsey Pyro V.E., all members of the International collective of socially involved Women printmakers: Grapevine Ink.) to an audience of 1,000+ female hip-hop enthusiasts to lead live t-shirt printing demonstrations. This audience will be brought together at the <b>Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen (MHHK), Vol. 5: Be the Cure!</b> event. Attendees will either print their own, or have printed for them a t-shirt reading “I’m Shanté” in large pink letters with the words “ and I represent powerful women” in smaller lettering below.</div> <div> <p class="p1">The printed t-shirt phrase references lyrics from the 1987 hip-hop classic “Have A Nice Day” by hip-hop pioneer, Roxanne Shanté. By printing hundreds of t-shirts that allow hundreds of women to symbolically take on the identity of Shanté, an iconic and complicated figure in hip-hop history, the project demonstrates solidarity, awareness and connection to hip-hop’s grassroots origins, and pride in a tradition of women that are often pejoratively referred to as “ghetto”, “bitches”, “hood-rats”, etc. In a lighthearted, but earnest nod to the Civil Rights Movement’s “I AM A MAN” sandwich board protests, this project “amplifies” the voice of one woman through the visual demonstration of many. The pink ink color will direct attention to MHHK’s 2012 breast cancer awareness theme. Professional quality group photos will be taken of women wearing the shirts. Requested funding will cover the cost of prep time, printing supplies, and 300+ t-shirts.</p> <p class="p1"></p><div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5QkEHUMmpyM?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div><p /><p /><div><b><a href="http://feastinbklyn.org/">FEAST #12</a></b></div> <p></p></div><div> <p class="p1"><b>WHEN: Saturday, January 21st</b></p><p class="p1"><b>@ the Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint</b></p> <p class="p1"><b>129 Russell St., Brooklyn, NY 11222</b></p> <p class="p1"><b>5-8pm</b></p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-inspired-art-food-feastbrooklyn-on-sa">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-inspired-art-food-feastbrooklyn-on-sa#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/nF2X6U7r6bc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-inspired-art-food-feastbrooklyn-on-sa Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:30:34 -0800 "Hip Hop Family Tree" -The History of Hip Hop as Told Thru Comics http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/DLmx0xJXkQo/hip-hop-family-tree-the-history-of-hip-hop-as http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-family-tree-the-history-of-hip-hop-as <p> <div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="" src="http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hip-hop-family-tree-title.jpg" /> </div> </div><br /><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="" src="http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hip-hop-strip-edited.jpg" /> </div> </div> <p /><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="" src="http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/color-strip-2.jpg" /> </div> </div><p /><div><b><a href="http://twitter.com/edpiskor" target="_blank">Ed Piskor's</a> ongoing comic "The Hip Hop Family Tree" on <a href="http://boingboing.net/tag/brain-rot" target="_blank">boingboing</a> is a look into the viral propagation of a culture and details hip hop's lineage from its origins.</b></div> <div><b>New parts are scheduled to appear every Tuesday.</b></div><p /><div>Is the how future generations will learn of what came before them?</div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-family-tree-the-history-of-hip-hop-as">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-family-tree-the-history-of-hip-hop-as#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/DLmx0xJXkQo" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/hip-hop-family-tree-the-history-of-hip-hop-as Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:37:00 -0800 Dope Pics: EBONY Magazine's Tumblr http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/0FdzupNtkIA/92183281 http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/92183281 <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_http29mediatumb_iitko" height="593" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/EFhgEFghEscCyqeGdrlljosxaodjhGorBeDgzBJAaqvbcIfbAhqfdEBjzmAj/media_http29mediatumb_IItko.png.scaled980.png" width="500" /> </div> </p> <p>EBONY has launched a <a href="http://ebonymag.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>! Vintage EBONY. Get into it!</p> <p>Note the headline for the 1962 article "What Republicans Must Do To Regain The Negro Vote - Richard M. Nixon " which you can <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=X9cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=what+republicans+must+do+to+regain+the+negro+vote&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6XcGT8biFKnY0QHKiKGHAQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=what%20republicans%20must%20do%20to%20regain%20the%20negro%20vote&f=false">read in its entirety on Google Books</a> along with other issues of EBONY from back in the day. Pretty ironic given the Negro outreach strategy of the current GOP candidates.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/newt-gingrich-paychecks-food-stamps_n_1188193.html">Newt Gingrich has proposed speaking to the NAACP on<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">"why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps."</span></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57350990-503544/santorum-targets-blacks-in-entitlement-reform/?tag=mncol;lst;5">RIck Santorum has vowed he would not <span style="font-size: small;">"<span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left; background-color: #fefefe;">want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money."</span></span></a> He now claims that he said "blah" not "black". (insert side eye)</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2011/1229/Racist-newsletter-timeline-What-Ron-Paul-has-said"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron Paul of course is attached with a series of racist newsletters dating from the 1980s which included assertions such as <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">"Racial Violence Will Fill Our Cities" because "mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white 'haves.' " </span></span></a></li> </ul> <p>The current GOP has neither a promise nor a record - which Nixon suggested was necessary - to offer African-Americans. Instead the GOP continues to play the divisive game of racial politics -started by Nixon - with "The Black Welfare Boogeyman."     </p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_http30mediatumb_geeec" height="608" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/fltBFnnaigiIvEebpJpnsDjijzthqirpkobAIizduoAGsbwfoACdeqJEbFBH/media_http30mediatumb_gEeEC.png.scaled980.png" width="500" /> </div> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/92183281">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/92183281#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/0FdzupNtkIA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/92183281 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:02:31 -0800 Real Talk: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts on Spaces & Places http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/Hbfexg7ZHYg/real-talk-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-on-spaces-plac http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-on-spaces-plac <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httplifeandtime_kemui" height="1078" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/kFeJnApvadGlHEfHktsevsbIEBfjzCwuprfuqneAjrlBzgugnHuAwjsaaxql/media_httplifeandtime_kemui.jpeg.scaled980.jpg" width="722" /> </div> <p /> Good interview of <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px;">Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts author of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px;"><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Nowhere-Journey-Mecca-America/dp/031601723X" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America</a> </em><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">by dream hampton. </span></span><span>It touches on a concept I've been meditating on for a while - building cultural institutions in the absence of physical space and freeing our cultural expressions from the confines of physical space. Technology gives us the freedom to create these </span><div> <br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> as a people, our relationship to space has always been fugitive, always threatened. And that we’ve always had to claim space in other creative ways. </blockquote><p /> <div><a href="http://lifeandtimes.com/dust-tracks-on-a-road" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">from Life + Times </a></div><p /><div>I've been reading "Harlem Is Nowhere" for almost 3 months - it's a book that I should have been able to knock out in a weekend. As I confront the realities of my own existence in Harlem I think I have developed some kind of block with finishing it, but am vowing to see it to the end. I'm already more than half way done and can definitely say that <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">Rhodes-Pitts did a wonderful job capturing Harlem in all its glory and complexities. </span></div> <p /><div><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The dope pic for this article is from <i><a href="http://thinklove.carbonmade.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Laylah Amatullah Barrayn</a>’s current exhibit “</i><a href="http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/tag/female-writers/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Her Word As Witness: Portrait Of Women Writers Of The African Diaspora</a><i>“ </i>on view at <a href="http://www.restorationplaza.org/arts-and-culture/skylight-gallery" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17,85,204);">Skylight Galler</a>y in Brooklyn until March 31, 2012.</span></div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-on-spaces-plac">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-on-spaces-plac#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/Hbfexg7ZHYg" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-on-spaces-plac Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:02:20 -0800 Dope Music: QUADRON COVERS LAURYN HILL'S "EX -FACTOR" http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/PeAjcDaUOxU/dope-music-quadron-covers-lauryn-hills-ex-fac http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-quadron-covers-lauryn-hills-ex-fac <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_http4bpblogspot_funcw" height="453" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/bjdEihfxomGeFfzfEmDHszeDmDcHnoyjtxDyymumjHwxdselFrmlhlGAmjyg/media_http4bpblogspot_Funcw.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="710" /> </div> <p /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1IYwClBX8bM?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe><p /> I was looking for some new music when I came across this - it's a new take on a Lauryn Hill classic. <p />Coco does a simply marvelous job of interpreting this song, but it's not surprising she's shown this skill before on a super cool cover of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWaD0BdbwM">MJ's "Baby Be Mine"</a> <p /> #getitcoco!<p />Seeing Quadron live in 2011 was definitely one of the highlights. #imafan </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-quadron-covers-lauryn-hills-ex-fac">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-quadron-covers-lauryn-hills-ex-fac#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/PeAjcDaUOxU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-quadron-covers-lauryn-hills-ex-fac Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:02:47 -0700 Dope Music: Mos Def + Brooklyn Philharmonic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/Ki4VR8JFFtE/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpkeeftvimage_hichz" height="279" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/vJnvcEpFBqDtrothyhhkBoyzyHwiHcDxEnlgEoouHBijABamaJIugitJsqoi/media_httpkeeftvimage_hiChz.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="500" /> </div> </p> <p> </p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL4D8A944A8C4081BC&hl=en_US" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <p>Last weekend me and the homie ShanP got aboard the A-train and headed to the bowls of Bed Stuy Brooklyn which promised a bounty of FREE culture not least of which was the world premiere of the collaboration between the the artist formally known as Mos Def and know known as Yasiin Bey at street fest Restoration Rocks.</p> <p>Given that the last time we had tried to go see Mos for free in BK we ended up being late and missing the entire the show we were surprisingly not only on time but by CP standards were actually early which allowed us a front row seat to witness something epic not only for Mos, but for Hip Hop as a culture. The most interesting thing about our vantage point was the opportunity to watch Mos prepare - this was something he was clearly taking very seriously.</p> <p>We had a good 45 minutes of waiting while the sound people tried to get it together with the set up. The crowd was surprisingly patient I think knowing they were in store for something special.I would find out later that it was issues with sound equipment which would cause Talib Kweli to pull out of performing as scheduled later on the bill- BOO.</p> <p>They would run through a melody of Mos' tunes including "Revelations", "Casa Bey", and a dope arrangement of "Life in Marvelous Times". The highlight of the set was no doubt a performance of Frederic Rzewski's "Coming Together". a piece based on a poem by Sam Melville, a leader and casualty of the Attica riots, that Mos Def dedicated to Troy Davis.</p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Dsc01234" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/jGFvdgqxBEnyJwIqJpcqsgldzzxnvjcIbnzisJsoFHhDDcsJthpxpEcEeflr/DSC01234.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01219" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/FwFFuqdGHHglAnwsnnuqAqoGFgJJimBljmsxbnxloFuolAacqzHvqcmxikJx/DSC01219.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01221" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/qInvJeBdtcqFsjxocckwupckzIuhoaqqBohklmjjbzcwqBJilypmJbpycIyx/DSC01221.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01235" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/ktkDFpuwfeurwBDiHylzAExtbdJvzvkoFtzokrzHssheuumGnerrzrJtneGh/DSC01235.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01220" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/IcrHyjDkIdAdmJkzmGArcCllAoxpueookfrqzJvHFHwGejcyoetszycFnotl/DSC01220.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01207" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/IufCFemrdDDbfrCdHGpaAepfonJpBzbtABzhAIfGakiaFesftyGEjyJowGDF/DSC01207.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01209" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/ftzryBEdvDCIHrpejGaIlzgfClaxbpBwqlACBndCabnFfdgIavyecHBCBkeg/DSC01209.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <img alt="Dsc01210" height="1742" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-10-15/InkzwliojDbDzGvulzHbiJzFiGzfJerwsifmitjvAApfHGGlCGmJdiEJznJp/DSC01210.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div> </div> </p> <p> </p> <p>Mos and The Brooklyn Philharmonic performed the same tunes a few nights later at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden. I couldn't make it and if you couldn't either you can listen to recordings below. I'm glad I got to see this performed on the streets instead of a concert hall - there was something about the energy of the crowd, it seemed less sanitized - it was hip hop.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mos Def + The Brooklyn Philharmonic (arr. Derek Bermel): Life in Marvelous Times, Revelations and Casa Bey</strong><br /> <embed src="http://www.wqxr.org/media/audioplayer/blue_progress_player_no_pop.swf" wmode="transparent" height="29" flashvars="file=http://audio.wnyc.org/qlive/qlive101112def.mp3&repeat=list&autostart=false&popurl=http%3A//audio.wnyc.org/qlive/qlive101112def.mp3%3Fdownload%3Dfalse" width="400"></embed></p> <p> </p> <p><strong> Mos Def + The Brooklyn Philharmonic - Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together (1972)</strong><br /> <embed src="http://www.wqxr.org/media/audioplayer/blue_progress_player_no_pop.swf" wmode="transparent" height="29" flashvars="file=http://audio.wnyc.org/qlive/qlive101211rzewski.mp3&repeat=list&autostart=false&popurl=http%3A//audio.wnyc.org/qlive/qlive101211rzewski.mp3%3Fdownload%3Dfalse" width="400"></embed></p> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/Ki4VR8JFFtE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-music-mos-def-brooklyn-philharmonic Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:47:00 -0700 Dope Flick: Pump Up The Volume: The History of House Music http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/4CV7laHnZ38/dope-flick-pump-up-the-volume-the-history-of http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-pump-up-the-volume-the-history-of <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/lBCflAEEpHtmgkAIJaEywBIGizlsAgJcjAiaAtzCtzBfGpCpdHEIHmjmynas/media_httpwwwwallchan_oxIoA.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpwwwwallchan_oxioa" height="613" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/lBCflAEEpHtmgkAIJaEywBIGizlsAgJcjAiaAtzCtzBfGpCpdHEIHmjmynas/media_httpwwwwallchan_oxIoA.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /></a> </div> </p> <p>One of the best documentaries that I have watched in a while. "Pump Up The Volume" traces the evolution of house music from the underground clubs of Chicago, New York and Detroit to a global phenomenon. The roots of the music have sprouted many branches as the movement has bounced back and forth across the Atlantic. Just another example of culture creation by my people.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLE27453FE693CAE3A&hl=en_US" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640"></iframe> <br /> originally spotted on <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/">Brain Pickings</a></p> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-pump-up-the-volume-the-history-of">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-pump-up-the-volume-the-history-of#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/4CV7laHnZ38" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-pump-up-the-volume-the-history-of Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:12:05 -0700 Real Talk: Karl Lagerfeld on Kicking Your Own Ass http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/8wP9uiOJGbs/real-talk-karl-lagerfeld-on-kicking-your-own http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-karl-lagerfeld-on-kicking-your-own <p> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/wyjbJJrejcsqhgJiJBADlDwbgCctjBwDebAtjpeisjduxabIoIkbjCJrgktD/media_httpsolongasiti_pDDec.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpsolongasiti_pddec" height="735" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/wyjbJJrejcsqhgJiJBADlDwbgCctjBwDebAtjpeisjduxabIoIkbjCJrgktD/media_httpsolongasiti_pDDec.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="980" /></a> </div> </h1> <p /></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <span style="font-family: myriad,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>You were <a href="http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/chanel-hm-macys-diet-coke-what-should-karl-lagerfeld-design-next/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;">recently quoted</a> as saying that sweatpants are a sign of defeat. So what do you wear to lounge in during your down time?<br /> </b></span><span style="font-family: myriad,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>Down time? I don’t have down time. Down time has a very aging affect. You have to be up, up. I know uptown and downtown, but down time? We don’t know [laughing]. I know nothing about this. I believe in discipline. Y<b>ou get up, and you make an effort. But if you are down you only remain down. Kick your ass yourself.</b><b> </b>[laughs] You have to be very disciplined. You know, people can start to like to be down after a certain point. It’s very bad.</i></span></blockquote> <div>via <a href="http://kenyasstyle.com/blogs/kenyasstyle/2011/09/interview-lagerfeld-gives-marc-jacobs-thumbs-up-downtime-thumbs-down.html#" target="_blank">kenyasstyle.com</a></div><p /><div>Read this interview in my morning Metro on my way into work one day last week and thought it was a great life philosophy - self-discipline and self-motivation. </div> <p /><div>Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion icon. People who don't even know fashion know who he is. He has created a powerful personal brand, the core of which is a striking visual aesthetic. He is now spreading his brand around, including slumming with mass (aka lower-end) brands like H&M, Diet Coke, and most recently Macy's. To this Lagerfeld responds, “Don’t use the words ‘lower-priced lines!’ Design is design: ‘Up’ or ‘low,’ it has to be good.”<p /> If you are looking for another old head fashionista who has clearly been kicking his own ass and presenting a striking visual aesthetic be sure to check out <b><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=giorgio+armani+speedo&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=1mJ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zMBuTqzSKMiCgAfc0fi5CQ&ved=0CFAQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=843" target="_blank">Georgio Armani in a Speedo</a>.</b> <b>#getit!</b><p /> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpwwwdeanpipe_ifpra" height="332" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/gBmyeltIdJBAFrxzjxuDaIeaEqqyxdijdBbtppbHsljqwilzabanqtiuEGAy/media_httpwwwdeanpipe_ifpra.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="500" /> </div> </div> <div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-karl-lagerfeld-on-kicking-your-own">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-karl-lagerfeld-on-kicking-your-own#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/8wP9uiOJGbs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-karl-lagerfeld-on-kicking-your-own Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:22:15 -0700 Dope Flick: Steve Stoute, Hip Hop & The Tanning Of America http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/3Qdk6__V4IA/dope-flick-steve-stoute-hip-hop-the-tanning-o http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-steve-stoute-hip-hop-the-tanning-o <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_http28mediatumb_ulcib" height="258" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/JurEIEcgjepBtwHEqoybayrlHxchvjDnJBsCjgJGbnFkeDuanbbFoBpyljHG/media_http28mediatumb_ulCIb.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="500" /> </div> </p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nlGCkuAAeyo" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></p> <p>To coincide with the release of his new book <a href="http://tanningofamerica.com/" target="_blank">"The Tanning Of America: How the Culture of Hip-Hop Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy"</a> Steve Stoute is partnering with AOL/HuffPo Media to launch a new webseries of the same name. Stoute chops it up with Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Jimmy Iovine and Pharrell on the business side of the game. </p> <p>Former record exec Steve Stoute back in the day was best known for getting roughed up by Puff for not editing him out of the cross hanging scene in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKSJN3WWR3E&ob=av2e" target="_blank">Nas' "Hate Me Now" video</a> (RIP M&Gs), is today the head of marketing agency <a href="http://www.translationllc.com" target="_blank">Translation</a> and known as the guy behind big deals from Carol's Daughter to hooking up Chris Brown with Wrigley's (pre-busting up RiRi's face), Justin Timberlake with McDonald's, and Jay-Z with Reebok. </p> <p>Clearly like hip hop he has evolved. </p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/exclusive-excerpt-steve-stoute_n_950954.html#s351402" target="_blank"><b>Read an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book</b></a> </p> <p><span>Another book <a href="http://goog_1927916920" target="_blank">"The Big Payback" by </a></span><a href="http://www.dancharnas.com" target="_blank">Dan Charnas</a> released late last year looks at the evolution of hip hop into a multibillion dollar global industry, also had an accompanying video series.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aJ7BJRiAyIg" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></p> <p><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Dantrification" target="_blank">Watch the rest of the series</a> </b></p> <p>I had a chance to hear Charnas speak on a panel at this year's Harlem Book Fair. This guy said one of the realest thing that I have ever heard uttered from a white man's mouth. He basically said that the reason that black people will never get ahead is that black people don't own anything. #realtalk</p> <p>Haven't read "Big Payback" yet, but it is on a long list to get to.</p> <p>Both of these are good examples of the new transmedia approach to marketing. </p> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-steve-stoute-hip-hop-the-tanning-o">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-steve-stoute-hip-hop-the-tanning-o#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/3Qdk6__V4IA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/dope-flick-steve-stoute-hip-hop-the-tanning-o Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:01:00 -0700 Dope Flick: 'Tokyo Rising' ft. Pharrell http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/flkvo0CM7H8/69654193 http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/69654193 <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpshechivefil_cahpf" height="625" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/mhcDfHzuBeruqCCdpaxkwCFpclcgxubknvsCgvxfbnpIzFInmillwqaJwtuB/media_httpshechivefil_CAHpF.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="500" /> </div> </p> <p> <object height="280" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://assets.karmalooptv.com/media/swf/player.swf" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="flashvars" value="config=http://www.karmalooptv.com/xml/feed?video=15233" /><embed src="http://assets.karmalooptv.com/media/swf/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="280" flashvars="config=http://www.karmalooptv.com/xml/feed?video=15233" width="500"></embed> </object> </p> <p>I personally had to block out the aftermath of 3/11. Other than seeing some video of the tsunami ravage the coastal areas, I intentionally did not watch the devastation that followed. I recognize this as a selfish, yet self-protective act. I have the luxury of not having cable television which keeps me from being bombarded with depressing and sensationalized images. The Western media's attention to Japan seemed short-lived as well. They had the Royal Wedding and Casey Anthony trial to attend to. Again I instituted a complete blackout.</p> <p>On this day where I reflect on what it means to be a New Yorker, an American, and a citizen of the world 10 years after 9/11, it is great to watch this video 'Tokyo Rising'  that shows the role that art and culture are having in reshaping their society. </p> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote"> <p>Tokyo faces a new reality after the tragedy of 3/11. While persistent challenges still lay ahead, the city’s creative class is hell-bent on making sure that their hometown thrives. Innovative and resilient, they are defining the future of Tokyo on their own terms.</p> </blockquote> <p>Pharell serves as an unlikely, but effective guide to a city rebuilding itself. </p> <p>Nice to see the forces of hip hop and branded entertainment (the video is sponsored by Palladium Boots) being used for good.</p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/69654193">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/69654193#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/flkvo0CM7H8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/69654193 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:57:58 -0700 Real Talk: Fun & Love As Revolutionary Acts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRahRah/~3/MSBVZ2jIj9Y/real-talk-fun-love-as-revolutionary-acts http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-fun-love-as-revolutionary-acts <p> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Media_httpfarm7static_lavng" height="250" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/rahrahrah/zjGwlzJrJakIjFnjoFwtnEBpddlDownBuFAnhBIqujimibvvpgqtnwAotuwl/media_httpfarm7static_lavng.jpg.scaled980.jpg" width="630" /> </div> <p /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fy_BfgkBYy0?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe><p /> In the latest installment of Autobiography of a Year II, a documentary of 2011 made up of daily video diaries from artist and all around fly chic Damali Abrams, she provides an alternative lens through which to view revolutions. Fun and Love is a stark contrast to the images that have played out on TV with the sprouting of Arab Spring and continuing through the summer.<p /> Keep up to with her Autobiography of a Year (or "DTV" as I affectionately refer to it as) on her <a href="http://damaliabrams.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/damaliabrams" target="_blank">youtube channel. </a><br /> Also check out her work first hand at the<a href="http://renaissancenbk.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/tart-8-opens-on-friday/" target="_blank"> tART Year 8 Female Artist Collective show</a> opening Friday September 9th @ 7pm at the Arts@Renaissance Gallery. </p> <p><a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-fun-love-as-revolutionary-acts">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-fun-love-as-revolutionary-acts#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheRahRah/~4/MSBVZ2jIj9Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/95821/cameo2headphones.jpg http://posterous.com/users/jXEnVnDbiN rahrahrah rahrahrah http://rahrahrah.posterous.com/real-talk-fun-love-as-revolutionary-acts