For the month of July until the end of the month (7/30/2014), PBS is streaming online the documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs by filmmaker Grace Lee (no relation). This documentary premiered recently at San Francisco’s CAAM Film Festival 2014 and is about the life and work of Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit, who along with her husband James Boggs (who was a well known black activist) devoted their lives to fighting for …
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Last week Friday June 27th, Soul/R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Womack passed away at the age of 70. Known for his music in the 60’s, 70’s (contributing music to Blaxploitation film soundtracks, ex: Across 110th Street), and 80’s, an inductee in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2009, his work has been covered, interpolated, referenced by other Soul/R&B artists such as K-Ci of Jodeci, Mariah Carey, Jahiem, Calvin Richardson, Prince, Rome, Kelly Rowland, Gerald Levert and Mary J Blige, covered by Rock musicians …
G-Eazy These Things Happen stream G-Eazy These Things Happen music video G-Eazy interviews+performance on Sway in the Morning G-Eazy talks about Bay Area Hip-Hop and his about his music on HOT97 – G-Eazy is an up and coming artist out of the Bay Area, North Oakland to be exact, who dropped his new album recently called These Things Happen. G-Eazy is no fly by overnight sensation, with 10 years of indie albums and mixtapes under his belt. Still on the indie tip, G-Eazy has …
In terms of martial arts, when one thinks of Brazil, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) comes to mind (“Jiu-Jitsu” is an old western spelling/pronunciation for what is known in Japan as Judo). An influential figure in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from its early beginnings is Mitsuyo Maeda, a judōka (Judo expert) and a prizefighter in no holds barred competitions that traveled the world performing Judo demonstrations and fighting in various competitions. Maeda broke with Judo traditionalists, preferring combat sparing to cookie cutter kata forms, and he fought for …
If you’re still fiending for another documentary on Brazilian music check out Tropicália (2012), an in depth and intimate look at the Tropicália (aka Tropicalismo) movement of music, arts, poetry, theatre and film culture from the late 1960s. The Tropicália movement practice “cultural cannibalism,” a post-modern, remix approach to music, arts, poetry, theatre and film, taking from indigenous Afro-Brazilian music and culture, and mixing them with western styles, and the avant-garde. Tropicália artists played around with being on the fringe, but were not averse to being …
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