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JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

February 10, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

The religious overtones of JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH come towards the end of this searing examination of racial politics during the 1960s. And when they arrive, in a sequence that is most assuredly a shout-out to the Last Supper, director/co-writer Shaka King has earned the right, and then some, to invoke the metaphor. The… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Black Panthers, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, class struggle, FBI, government surveillance, racism

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO — Raoul Peck Interview

December 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO — Raoul Peck Interview

As we were settling down to talk, Raoul Peck asked me about the name of my web site, KillerMovieReviews.com. When I told him it was a nod to the fact that I take no prisoners when it comes to bad movies, he laughed and said that was exactly the resolve with which he went into… Read More »

Tagged With: Black Panthers, Civil Rights Movement, Ferguson, Gloria Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin, John Wayne, Jr., Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medger Evers, NAACP, race relations, racism, Remember This House

AGENTS OF CHANGE — Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg Interview

May 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment

AGENTS OF CHANGE — Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg Interview

When Ramona Tascoe arrived at San Francisco State in the 1960s, she was brought up short by the African-American students she met there who were wearing Afros and dashikis. As she told me when we talked on May 5, 2016, those same students were not shy about telling her what they thought of her emulating… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970, armed students, Black Panthers, Black Power, Black Student Union, Black Studies Program, burning cross, consciousness raising, Cornell University, ethnic studies, Eurocentrism, Ivy League, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, S.I.Hayakawa, San Francisco State University, student activism, student strike

W. Kamau Bell Loves THE LAST DRAGON and You Should, Too.

December 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment

W. Kamau Bell Loves THE LAST DRAGON and You Should, Too.

W. Kamau Bell, comedian, podcaster, broadcaster, writer, host of the late-lamented Totally Biased, and soon to be co-host of CNN’s United Shades of America, has proven himself a savvy connoisseur of cinema. Aside from the obvious entertainment value of a film, he is a student, and a fan, of the subtext of films that might… Read More »

Tagged With: Berry Gordy, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Comic Con, Donald Trump, KALW, media representation, Motown, nerd culture, Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Taimak, THE LAST DRAGON, Totally Biased, United Shades of America, Vanity

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

When Stanley Nelson started working on THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION, it was seven years ago and he thought the history of that movement was particularly relevant to those times. In 2015, he thinks it’s even more relevant. When I spoke to him on October 1, 2015, the echoes of the Panther movement in… Read More »

Tagged With: 10 point program, 1960s, 1970s, American history, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, dignity, Erica Huggins, FBI, Huey Newton, J. Edgar Hoover, Los Angeles, MacArthur Genius, Martin Luther King, New York, Oakland, open-carry, police brutality, Ralph Abernathy, revolution, San Francisco, Second Amendment, self-defense, Stanley Nelson

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