Archive for the 'Documentary' Category
• November 14, 2013 •
Comments Off on Filmmaker Ken Burns Says New Mayor Bill DeBlasio Will Settle With The Central Park Five
Posted in "Stop and Frisk", African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Democrats, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, History, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, People of Color, Police Misconduct/Killings, Public Television, Puerto Ricans, Race, Rape, Rape/Sex Crimes, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Antron McCray, Bill de Blasio, Blacks, Central Park, Central Park Five, Central Park Jogger case, Constables on Patrol, David McMahon, Huffington Post, HuffPost Live, Josh Zepps, Ken Burns, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, New York City, Racism, Raymond Santana, Sarah Burns, The Nineties, Trisha Meili, United States, Yusef Salaam
• August 13, 2013 •
3 Comments
Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Vehicular Manslaughter/Murder, Wisconsin, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, AT&T, Black Women, Blacks, Department of Transportation, Distracted Driving, Documentary, Documentary film, Gary Busey, Green Bay Packers, Grizzly Man, Herzog, Indiana, Milwaukee, Murder, New York City, PSAs, Public Service Announcement, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Texting While Driving, The Eighties, The Seventies, United States, Utah, Valetta Bradford, Vermont, Werner Herzog, Wisconsin, Xzavier Davis-Bilbo
• June 23, 2013 •
2 Comments
Posted in African American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Health, History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Oprah Winfrey, OWN/Oprah Winfrey, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
• March 28, 2013 •
Comments Off on The Very Dead But Forever Beloved Richard Pryor is Coming Out With a New Compilation Album Soon and a New Documentary
Posted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Facebook, Film, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Compilation Album, Compilation CD, DVD, Marsha Warfield, Pryor, Richard Pryor, Shout Factory, Tribeca Film Festival, Whoopi Goldberg, YouTube
• March 11, 2013 •
Comments Off on Some Monday Love: “Thinking About Your Body (For Debs)” Bobby McFerrin, 1986
Posted in Black People, Bobby McFerrin, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Facebook, Film, Love, Public Television, Sexuality, Television
Tags: "Thinking About Your Body", Arts, Blue Note, BobbyMcFerrin, Debbie Green, Don't Worry Be Happy, Facebook, Joy, Live Album, Love, McFerrin, Music, Spontaneous Inventions, Wife
• November 24, 2012 •
Comments Off on Kevin Clash: Making Sense of a Tragedy
Posted in African American History, American Politics, Arts, Black Nerds, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Facebook, Film, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Being Elmo", "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey", "My Life as a Furry Red Monster", "Sesame Street", African Americans, Andrew Vachss, Big Bird, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Cecil Singleton, Child Abuse, Children, Common Sense, Elmo, Facebook, Grooming, Growing Up, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Jerry Sandusky, Jim Henson, Katherine Franke, Kevin, Kevin Clash, LGBT, Love, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Marriage, Michael Jackson, Mitt Romney, PBS, Puppetry, Rape, Sesame Workshop, Sex, Shannon Clash, Sheldon Stephens, The Closet, The Muppets, The New York Times, TMZ.com, United States
• March 10, 2012 •
1 Comment
Posted in African American History, Alice Walker, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Fiction Writing, Film, Love, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Alice Walker, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, British Film Institute, Danny Glover, Film Documentary, LGBT, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Love, March 2012, Movies, Pratibha Parmar, Racism, Rebecca, Rebecca Walker, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Walker
• February 28, 2012 •
Comments Off on Will The Real Model of Black Maleness Please Stand Up? Is It Barack or Curtis (50 Cent)?
Posted in African American History, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Gang Violence, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, Race, Sexuality, The Economy, The N Word, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "Ghetto Qu'ran", "The African American Portal", "The Game", 50cent, African Americans, Barack Obama, Black Manhood, Black Women, Blacks, Children, Common Sense, Drama, Film Documentary, FLOTUS, Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me), Gray Hair, Growing Up, Irv Gotti, Jam Master Jay, Jodi Kantor, Maleness, Masculinity, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Murder, Obama, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Pwn'ed, Racism, Republicans, Samuel L Jackson, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, The First Lady, The Nineties, The View, Twitter, United States, Young Buck
• February 21, 2012 •
1 Comment
Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Diabetes, Documentary, Education, Film, Joe Frazier, Love, Memoir, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sports, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Philippines, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Who I Am
Tags: "Joe Frazier: When The Smoke Clears", "The New York Daily News", African Americans, Blacks, Burma Shave, Documentary, Film Documentary, Frazier, George Foreman, Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, Great White Hype, Growing Up, Joe Frazier, Marvis Frazier, Mike Todd, Muhammad Ali, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Smokin' Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Sports, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Thrilla in Manila, United States
• February 10, 2012 •
1 Comment
Posted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Angela Davis, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentaries, Documentary, Education, Film, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Public Television, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975", African Americans, Angela Davis, Ann Dunham, Barack Obama, Black Militancy, Black Panther, Black Power, Black Women, Blacks, California, COINTELPRO, Eldridge Cleaver, Film, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Huey P. Newton, Independent Lens, Prison Ethos, Prisons, Racism, Stokely Carmichael, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Wisconsin Channel, United States, Vietnam War, Violence, WPT.org
• January 22, 2012 •
Comments Off on Louis and “Louis”
Posted in Acting, African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Louis Armstrong, Love, Music, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Americans, Anthony Coleman, Anthony Isaiah Coleman, Blacks, Boy, Documentary, Educational TV, Fictionalized, Film Documentary, Flushing Cemetery, Growing Up, Homage, Idiom, Kalamu, Kalamu ya Salaam, London Jazz Festival, Louis, Louis Armstrong, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Louisiana, Love, Lucille Armstrong, Melodrama, NeoGriot, New Orleans, Satchmo, Silent Film, Street Urchin, United States, Wynton Marsalis, YouTube
• January 11, 2012 •
3 Comments
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film
Tags: African Americans, Apollo Theater, Appearances, Baltimore, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bill Duke, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Channsin Berry, Children, Color Politics, Colorstruck, D. Channsin Berry, Dark Skin Prejudice, Documentary, Facebook, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Harlem, Light Skin Privilege, Love, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New York, New York City, One Night Only, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie New York, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Showings, United States
• January 3, 2012 •
Comments Off on A Very Short History of Our Modern Calendar
Posted in American History, Cultural History, Documentary, European History, Film, History, Holidays, Who I Am
Tags: Arts, Audie Murphy, Calendar, Chinese New Year, Classroom, Gregorian Calendar, Holidays, Janus, Jeremiah Warren, Monday, Movies, New Year, NewYear, Vimeo
• December 13, 2011 •
Comments Off on Black Surfers? It’s Not Just a White Thing. “Whitewash,” Black Surfing Documentary Narrated by Ben Harper and Black Thought of The Roots Now at Hulu
Posted in African American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Black Surfers, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Music, Spirituality, Sports, Travel, Weather, Women
Tags: African American, Amelia Earhart, Beach Boys, Ben Harper, Black People, Black Surfers, Black Thought, California Girls, Coast Starlight, Documentary, Don Schollander, Esther Williams, Ethnicity, Fordham University, Gidget, James Brown, John Hoberman, Kelly Slater, Los Angeles, Memoir, New Orleans, Rob Machado, Sal Masekela, Soui, Southern California, Sports Commentator, Surf, Surf Culture, Surfing, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, Tariq Trotter, The Roots, United States, Whitewash
• November 30, 2011 •
Comments Off on Dr. Conrad Murray Convicted and Sentenced, But Not Chastened; and The Proof Is In The Audio and The Video (w/Update)
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Michael Jackson, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, Television, The Jackson 5/Michael Jackson, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Dr. Oz", "Michael Jackson and The Doctor", "The Man Who Killed Michael Jackson", "The Today Show", African Americans, Blacks, Britain, California, Celebrity, Common Sense, Conrad Murray, County Jails, Documentary, Dr. Conrad Murray, Drama, Drugs, Exploitation, Faux Documentary, Governor Jerry Brown, Invasion of Privacy, iPhone, Jackson, Judge Michael Pastor, Katherine Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Lucrative, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, MSNBC, Murray, Pharmacies, Prescription Drugs, Prisons, Propofol, Quack, Remorse, Sentence, Sentence (law), The Jackson Family, Twitter, United Kingdom, Verdict
• November 17, 2011 •
Comments Off on Girl Racing With Pet Camel, Film at 11
Posted in Animals, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Love, Public Television, Television, Women
Tags: Alex, Animals, Arizona, Big Cats, Bond, California, Camel, CamelsandFriends.com, Critters, Domesticated Animals, Dromedary, Dromedary Camel, Exotic Animals, Friends, Friendship, Giraffes, Koalas, Natural Habitat, Pony Express, Skunks
• November 8, 2011 •
Comments Off on The Ancestors Summon “Smokin'” Joe Frazier, Boxer and Entertainer
Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Diabetes, Documentary, Film, Muhammad Ali, Race, Sports
Tags: "Respect", "Rocky", Abuse, African Americans, Ali, Belinda Ali, Blacks, Boxing, Boxing License, Cancer of the Liver, Cataracts, Diabetes, Eddie Futch, Exhaustion, Fight of the Century, Frazier, George Foreman, Golden Gloves, HBP, High Blood Pressure, Hospice, Insults, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, Joe Frazier, Joseph William Frazier, Liver Cancer, Madison Square Garden, Marvis Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Olympic Gold Medalist, Parkinson's Disease, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Poverty, Pugilism, Racial Abuse, Racism, Rocky Balboa, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Smokin' Joe Frazier, The Philippines, The Seventies, Thrilla in Manila, United States, Veronica Porsche
• October 24, 2011 •
Comments Off on Proving That “Hogan’s Heroes” Lied to You: An Op-Ed + Video Regarding Blacks in Germany, Past, Present and Future
Posted in African American History, Africans, American History, Belgium, Black People, Books, Cameroon, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, France, Germany, Haiti, Mental Health/Psychology, Namibia, People of Color, Race, The Rest of the World, War Crimes, World War II
Tags: "Black Survivors of the Holocaust", "Hitler's Forgotten Victims", "Hogan's Heroes, African Americans, Belgian, Biracials, Black, Black Women, Blacks, Cameroon, Colonization, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Genetic Experiments, Geneva Convention, German, Germany, Gestapo, Growing Up, Haitian Creole, Hans Hauck, Holocaust, Ivan Dixon, Jean Marcel Nicolas, Jean Voste, Jews, Josephine Baker, Kalamu ya Salaam, Lari Gilges, Mein Kampf, MeTV, Namibia, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazism, NeoGriot, Racial Purity, Racism, Rhineland Bastards, Staff Sgt. Kinchloe, Sterilized, Tanzania, Togo
• September 29, 2011 •
Comments Off on Join The Podcast Discussion of “Dark Girls” with Channsin Berry and Bill Duke Thursday Night, September 29
Posted in African American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Dark Girls", African Americans, Bill Duke, Black Filmmakers, Black Women, Blacks, Chat Room, Color Politics, Colorism, D. Channsin Berry, Dark-Skinned Black Women, Directors, Duke, Film Industry, Lack of Diversity, Movies, Podcast, Producers, Racism, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Toronto International Film Festival, United States
• September 1, 2011 •
Comments Off on The Queen of Soul Halts Release of “Amazing Grace” Documentary
Posted in African American History, Aretha Franklin, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Spirituality, Women
Tags: "Shadow and Act", Academy Award, African Americans, Alan Reed, Aretha Franklin, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Compact Disc, Documentary, Dusty Springfield, DVD, Film, Film Documentary, Film Release, Halle Berry, Jeremiah Johnson, Jesus, Legal Maneuver, Movies, Nikki Finke, Oscar Consideration, Roberta Flack, Sydney Pollack, The Oscars, The Seventies, Too Much Diva, Wrong!
• June 15, 2011 •
Comments Off on Leith Mullings, Cornel West, and Gary Younge Discussing Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”
Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Islam/Sufism, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African American Studies, African Americans, Amiri Baraka, Bio, Biography, Black Liberation, Black Men, Black Women, Blacks, City University of New York, Columnist, Cornel West, Culture, Gary Younge, Guardian, History, Leftist, Leith, Leith Mullings, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Princeton University, Progressive, Racism, Stanley Aronowitz, The Sixties, United States, Writer
• June 5, 2011 •
Comments Off on “The Way of All Flesh,” A Documentary About Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, The Immortal
Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Cancer, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Health, Henrietta Lacks/HeLa, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Oprah", "Shadow and Act", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Cancer, Cell, Cell Line, Consent, Death, Disease, Exploitation, Feature Film, Harpo Productions, HBO, HeLa, Henrietta Lack, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Informed Consent, Life, Medicine, Oprah Winfrey, Racism, Rebecca Skloot, Stealing, The Fifties, The Lack Family, United States
• May 26, 2011 •
17 Comments
Posted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: "Dark Girls", African American culture, African Americans, Alice Walker, Attractiveness, Bill Duke, Black Black Man, Black Black Woman, Black People, Black Women, Bradinn French, D. Channsin Berry, Documentary, HBO, Human skin color, Kanazawa, Love, Physical attractiveness, Psychology Today, Satoshi Kanazawa, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Short Film, Skillet Blond, Sundance, Women
• May 13, 2011 •
2 Comments
Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Awards, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cooking, Crime, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Political Malfeasance, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Congo Square", "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans", "Treme", Arguments, Black Creoles, Black Neighborhood, Brenda Marie Osbey, Broken Levees, California Newsreel, Community, Documentary, Father Jerome LeDoux, Film Documentary, Film Festivals, Glen David Andrews, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Lenwood Sloan, Levees, Lolis Eric Elie, Nature, New Orleans, New Orleans Music, San Francisco International Film Festival, South Madison Branch Public Library, St. Augustine Parish, The Mississippi River, Tribeca Film Festival, Wynton Marsalis
• April 1, 2011 •
Comments Off on Another Summit at Jimmy Fallon: Chuck D, The Roots, and Madison’s Own Clyde Stubblefield Rock The Classic, “Fight The Power!”
Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Clyde Stubblefield, Cultural History, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Late Night TV, Love, Music, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: "Fight the Power", "Funky Drummer", African Americans, Ahmir Thompson, Chuck D, Classics, Clyde Stubblefield, Copyright Criminals, Eclectic Method, Hip Hop, James Brown, Jimmy Fallon, Kembrew McLeod, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Madison WI, Music, Music Copyright Law, Questlove, The Eighties
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Black Surfers? It’s Not Just a White Thing. “Whitewash,” Black Surfing Documentary Narrated by Ben Harper and Black Thought of The Roots Now at Hulu
• December 13, 2011 • Comments Off on Black Surfers? It’s Not Just a White Thing. “Whitewash,” Black Surfing Documentary Narrated by Ben Harper and Black Thought of The Roots Now at HuluPosted in African American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Black Surfers, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Music, Spirituality, Sports, Travel, Weather, Women
Tags: African American, Amelia Earhart, Beach Boys, Ben Harper, Black People, Black Surfers, Black Thought, California Girls, Coast Starlight, Documentary, Don Schollander, Esther Williams, Ethnicity, Fordham University, Gidget, James Brown, John Hoberman, Kelly Slater, Los Angeles, Memoir, New Orleans, Rob Machado, Sal Masekela, Soui, Southern California, Sports Commentator, Surf, Surf Culture, Surfing, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, Tariq Trotter, The Roots, United States, Whitewash