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Movies
A Twist on Human Survival
Whether they were intended to be or not, the scenes of drone attacks in “Oblivion” serve as terrifying metaphors for today’s controversial and deadly drone attacks by the United States against the dark masses of the Middle East and Africa.
By Esther Iverem
May 6, 2013,
21:55
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The 411
The Toll of War, Violence
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| Assata Shakur |
U.N.: Close to 260,000 Died in Somali Famine...U.N.: Over 1 in 4 Children "Stunted" by Malnutrition...A Yemeni Says U.S. Drone War Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants...Former U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Dictator Found Guilty of Genocide..."Over the Line": U.S. Agents Shooting Dead Innocent Mexicans Across the Border With Impunity...Assata Shakur Added to FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List...Zimmerman Waives "Stand Your Ground" Hearing; Florida Police Officer Fired for Using Trayvon Martin Image in Shooting Target...Mississippi Death Row Prisoner Denied DNA Tests Wins Reprieve. And MUCH More! Check all the real news...
May 12, 2013,
23:36
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Movies/TV
Jackie Robinson Lite
“42: The Story of an American Legend" tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to integrate major league baseball. In it, Harrison Ford plays a great role as Branch Rickey, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers who recruited and hired Robinson. A case could be made that "42" says more about Rickey than it does about Robinson.
May 6, 2013,
22:03
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The 411
'Stop-and-Frisk' On Trial
And More SeeingBlack.com 411: Testimony, Recordings at Trial Reveal Racial Biases and Quotas Behind NYPD’s Stop & Frisk...Former NYPD Captain: Police Commissioner Targeted Men of Color in Bid to "Instill Fear"...NYPD Officers in Teen’s Death Previously Sued for Civil Rights Violations...Maryland Lawmakers Approve Death Penalty Ban...Lawsuit, Protests Challenge Michigan Emergency Manager Law. And MUCH more! As always, check the REAL news!
Apr 14, 2013,
17:36
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Music
After The Dance...
Intimacy in the Grooves: The fact that many young Blacks don’t slow dance, is as much about their relationship to the music, as it is their relationship to their bodies. For many Black Americans, music was the site in which intimacy could be realized, and as Angela Davis points out in her book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, there were political ramifications. By Mark Anthony Neal
Apr 14, 2013,
20:19
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The 411
The Segregated Prom
And More SeeingBlack.com 411--Education and the Environment :Philadelphia Panel Closes 23 Public Schools Amidst Protest...Georgia High Schoolers Challenge Segregated Prom...Homeless Mother Jailed for Sending Son to Public School with Fake Address...Storage Pits Leaking at Embattled Fukushima Nuclear Plant...ExxonMobil Eases Arkansas Oil Spill No-Fly Zone...Study: Use of GMO Crops Fueling Historic Decline of Monarch Butterflies..And much more. Check the news!
Apr 14, 2013,
17:54
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Diaspora
The Chavez Legacy
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| Hugo Chaxez turned back the colonial legacy of Latin American White minority rule and rampant racism. |
The unstated subtext in Venezuela is the role of race and identity. For the White upper class, which controls the press, Chavez is a "mico mono," a long tailed monkey, a reference to his African heritage. In reality, Chavez has African, Indian, and European heritage, was elected eight times by Venezuela's poor, and is practicante de la religion Yoruba. Dispatches from a Black perspective on AfroCuba.Web
Mar 11, 2013,
23:26
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The 411
A Challenge to World Bank
And More SeeingBlack.com 411: BRICS Countries Plan New Development Bank in Challenge to U.S.-Dominated World Bank, IMF...U.S. Firms Stashed $166 Billion Offshore in 2012, Shielding 40% of Annual Profit...Most Borrowers to Receive Paltry Sum from Banks in Foreclosure Settlement...Over 400 Fast Food Workers Take Part in NYC Strike...Comedian Dick Gregory Launches Hunger Fast for Lynne Stewart...After Vowing Greater Transparency, Obama Admin Increasingly Censoring, Withholding Info from Public. And MORE! Check the news...
Apr 14, 2013,
18:23
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Movies/TV
Torturous Lies
There is nothing to cheer about in “Zero Dark Thirty,” just like there was nothing to cheer in Saddam Hussein’s hanging or Muammar Gaddafi’s murder on YouTube. If anything, “Zero Dark Thirty” shows America what kind of global empire it has become and why, in reaction, the world hates us.
By Esther Iverem
Jan 23, 2013,
23:57
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The 411
Ten Years of U.S. War
And More SeeingBlack.com 411: New Study Reveals High Toll of Decade-Long Iraq War...Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers...A Timeline of U.S. Invasion of Iraq...Report: U.S. Colonel Ignored Torture of Iraqi Militias Under His Watch...Chile Exhumes Body of Poet Pablo Neruda to Probe Poisoning Claims... And MUCH more... CHECK THE NEWS.
Apr 14, 2013,
19:03
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Movies/TV
'Unchained' and Unbowed
In his “Pulp Fiction” over-the-top style, Quentin Tarantino wraps the vicious reality of American slavery within the familiar confines of the action hero, the Western gunslinger and the quest to rescue the damsel in distress. The main problem with “Django Unchained” is that it is the most recent example of someone other than Black people telling the story of Black People.
By Esther Iverem
Jan 2, 2013,
15:16
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The 411
Hugo Chavez Lives...
President Hugo Chavez, unabashed champion of the poor and Black, who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, joined the ancestors on March 5 at age 58 after along bout with cancer.
Reports from Cuba's Granma
Mar 6, 2013,
23:07
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Movies/TV
Truth Online and Onscreen
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| Halle Berry starred in the thought-provoking "Cloud Atlas." |
When I look back at culture and media for 2012, I am drawn to the power and importance of the Internet, to how documentaries remind us of truth and to how movies can still speak to our humanity.
By Esther Iverem
Dec 21, 2012,
12:07
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The 411
Economics and War
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| Ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner died inside a burning cabin, shown on national television, minutes before President Obama gave his State of the Union Address. |
Sequestration: What Do the Automatic Spending Cuts Mean for the Poor, Unemployed and Children?... U.N. Rejects Haiti Cholera Compensation Claims...An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner...Judge Denies Request to Delay George Zimmerman’s Trial in Trayvon Martin Case...Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War’s Latest Victims..."Stop and Frisk" Lawsuit Granted Class Action Status...Hundreds Mark 1st Anniversary of Ramarley Graham Killing; Family Sues NYPD...Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty in Corruption Case...Study Finds Racial Bias in Google Ad Results...AND MUCH MORE...CHECK THE REAL NEWS...
Feb 23, 2013,
20:06
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