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Category Archives: Film
Whose Streets? Film and the New Black Leadership
Although I plan to see the Ferguson, Missouri uprising documentary Whose Streets? in a theater this week, I’ve declined to write about the film up to this point because mentalunrest’s editorial policy typically forbids me from writing about media I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Politics, Race, Society
Tagged black lives matter, damon davis, ferguson, Film, michael brown, missouri, sabaah folayan, whose streets
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MY LAST WORD ABOUT THE 2016 OSCARS
This post addresses African descendants — well, the ones who watched last night’s Academy Awards ceremony and received confirmation that the impending Black shutout was really real — but are still looking for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Race
Tagged academy awards, academy of motion picture arts and sciences, diversity, oscars 2016, Racism
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ABOUT THIS OSCARS BOYCOTT
“A two hour Laura Ashley commercial.” That comment from Variety magazine explains why — in my world, at least — Jada Pinkett-Smith and or others who want to boycott the 2016 Oscars for its absence of color … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Race, Uncategorized
Tagged academy awards, academy of motion picture arts and sciences, jada pinkett smith, oscars, oscarssowhite
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART TWO
Part Two: This Movie and Planet Earth Now that I’ve discussed the social backdrop for the Straight Outta Compton movie in my previous post, I want to start this post by giving props to film director F. Gary Gray because Compton … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music, Race, Society
Tagged black lives matter, dr dre, Film, ice cube, inequality, movie, Race, straight outta compton
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON MOVIE THOUGHTS, PART ONE
Part One: Plantation Cultivation and the American Dream Straight out of the 1980s–90s plantation known as Compton, California, and powered in part by President Ronald Reagan’s Narcotics Entrepreneurship and Small Arms Specialist Training Program, better known to the rest you … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Race, Society
Tagged black lives matter, dr dre, eazy e, Film, ice cube, inequality, Music, nwa, Race, straight outta compton
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