Adult Swim just gave the greenlight for Black Jesus, a live-action show created by Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder. Jesus is apparently alive and well, kicking it in Compton, California. Him and his homies are spreading love and killing cats with kindness. The comedy stars the soon to be known actor Gerald “Slink” Johnson. According to Hollywood Reporter, the cast includes “Charlie Murphy (Are We There Yet?), Corey Holcomb(The Cleveland Show), Kali Hawk (Couples Retreat), Valenzia Algarin, up-and-coming comedian Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Andra Fuller (L.A. Complex) and The Boondocks‘ John Witherspoon …
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Formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), now known as the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday March 13th and runs through March 23rd. CAAM Fest 2014 will be showcasing films made by Asian/Asian American filmmakers, and films relating to the Asian and Asian American experience, with screenings in theaters located in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. I was looking through the film program of CAAM Fest this year and a …
Whitelandia is a documentary about Oregon’s historically institutionalized determination to discriminate and exclude blacks. The 90 minute film is an examination of Oregon’s oppressive practices and how it’s very foundation, since the writing of it’s 1857 constitution, was meant to create a white homeland. In anticipation of it’s statehood, the preliminary Oregon government actually wrote the first of The Black Laws of Oregon aka Jim Crow in 1844. Initially, the law required slave owners to free their slaves, but slaves were …
Edward Snowden beams in from Russia to Austin’s SXSW festival on a ACLU panel about net privacy technologies. Due to the stream being bounce through seven proxies, there is slight delay, echo, and glitches in the video. Snowden and the ACLU panel discuss the future development of crypto-technology that is easy to use for journalist, and accessible to average people sharing information across the internet. Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW video …
Lost interviews with famous, and iconic personalities are given the animation treatment in a PBS short film series “Blank on Blank.” Here we have animated lost interviews with legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix (audio only, there was a video, but was pull down due to some copyright issue…), singer Barry White, comedian Carol Burnett, jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, and actor Heath Ledger. Jimi Hendrix on The Experience – Blank on Blank Barry White on Making Love – Blank on Blank Carol Burnett on Finding …
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