Rapper Bambu’s eighth studio album Prey For The Devil cuts through like a box cutter to the face. It’s a tightly executed thematic album and it’s one of my favorite albums of last year. OJ the Producer and DJ Phatrick’s production works like a stage for a rapper who uses his words for a molotov cocktail. Bam is woke as fuck. Sad that he ain’t saying nothing new. Sadder that what he’s saying feels new. Click bate makes history feel irrelevant and …
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At full disclosure, I went to college with filmmaker Sean Weiner. He even filmed, directed and edited a video for a Stolen Music Imprint posse cut. He finished it and we got a copy, but it never saw the light of day for a lot of forgotten reasons (It was well over a decade ago). It looked dope, but I remember hating my verse. The short documentary film, 11.15.91 is about Weiner dealing with race, identity, and becoming what you are, instead of …
Skin Deep is a 2010 documentary from the Smithsonian Channel that follows the work of anthropologist Nina Jablonski and other scientists as they try to discover the story of the evolutionary development of human skin pigment. Skin Deep traces the story of human skin evolution back to our early common ancestors in Africa and the eventual migration of humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago. Anthropologist Nina Jablonski and her scientific colleagues postulate the effects of the climate, diet and other environmental changes on …
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 …
On the Killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman -Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trayvon -Sum A Letter to My Nephew -James Baldwin, December 1962 Tim Wise on HuffPost Live, July 8, 2013 Discussing His Upcoming Film, “White Like Me” Twitter – Isabel Wilkerson The Story of Harry T. Moore -PBS How Trayvon Martin Case Could Affect ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Across U.S. President Obama releases statement about Zimmerman’s verdict
