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WITHOUT THE FOREFATHERS, THERE WOULD BE NO HIP HOP, NO B-BOYS AND B-GIRLS, NO POPPIN, AND NO LOCKIN'....
Watch this excerpt from the most famous Lindy Hop/Jitterbug movie ever made, "Hellzapoppin'" from 1941. I have a true interest in this part of our (American) history because my grandparents, lindy hoppers to the core, always educated me on the TRUE origin of the lindy hop and jitterbuggin' and on the talent and skill that it takes to pull it off right...enjoy (IN MEMORY OF MY GRANDMOTHER)!
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Thanx to BFN Afro Latino for this graphic
Attorney Ted Landsmark being attacked by Joseph Rakes (the white "gentleman" using the American flag as a weapon) at an anti-busing/anti integration of schools rally in Boston in the 1970s. The photographer for the Boston Herald-American, Stanley Foreman, won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (spot News Photography) in 1977 for capturing this image.
I'd like to meet:
....Malcolm X, Denmark Vesey, Sam Cooke, Nat Turner, Huey Newton (just to name a few of our fallen heros), Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Tupac Shakur, my great grandmother, Denzel Washington, Larenz Tate, Saul Williams, Jill Scott, Big Rube, Oprah Winfrey, Iyanla Vanzant, E. Lynn Harris and....Anybody with intelligence and anyone who loves my black people as much as I do...oh yeah, and MAXWELL
True Lies
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Glitter Graphics
Music:
**Society of Soul was a group started by Sleepy Brown and Big Rube. With Sleepy at production and Rube writing lyrics, they decided to join up and released Brainchild.Coming out of the Atlanta hip-hop scene that also includes OutKast, Goodie Mob, and producers Organized Noize, Society of Soul is composed of singers Espraronza and Sleepy Brown (whose father was a member of Brick), plus Big Rube, producer Rico Wade, and Ray Murray. Strongly influenced by '70s funk, the group also combines elements of rap and gospel, the latter courtesy of Espraronza. The group's 1995 debut, Brainchild, was partially recorded at Curtis Mayfield's CurTom studios. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide****
Movies:
hellzapoppin.avi
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Hellzapoppin'. Filmed in 1941
Just a few
Television:
TV sux nowadays but if I have to watch it, it will be Girlfriends, Bad Girls Club, Cold Case, Grey's Anatomy, Everybody Hates Chris, My Name is Earl (LOVE THE HELL OUTTA THAT SHOW!!!!), The Office (too bad Jem doesn't come on anymore or Woody Woodpecker)
Books:
Way too many to list--but let's start with these and The Black Book (Random House Publishing--out of print today).
I used to LOVE Lois Duncan's books when I was in elementary/middle school!
Heroes:
Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Malcolm X, Maxwell, Drag-On, my grandparents, my mom, Bill Clinton, Lucille Ball, Shirley Chisholm, Bob Marley, Cornel West, Nat Love, Louis Sheridan Leary, Marcus Garvey, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Madame CJ Walker......
RIP: Ed Bradley
Fannie Lou Hammer
