I live in Edmonton and have known exactly one afro canadain in my life, i have some questions but it seems like they are really silly.
― anthony, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
the afro/carribean women around here are great. when they meet their
friends in the street they are all SO pleased to see each other, it's
as if they hadn't met for years! they hug and kiss and laugh loudly.
i enjoy watching them.
― katie, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Right into Bradley and Jo of SClub 7 who proceed to give Katie a
swift beating.
― Pete, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
only a fool would get in a fight with jo, she is mean and she would
have beyonce.
― Ronan, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
What about hair, Anthony?
― Dan Perry, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'm rooting for the quick demise of the hair-straightening norm among
African-American women. Not holding my breath, though.
― Nitsuh, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
it seems like this complex poltical issue and i want to know more
about the implications of hair.
― anthony, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
fourteen years pass...
Don't know where else to put this... Fills a gap for sure, I've seen several of these films but far from many.
Nearly 500 independently produced black films exclusively made for black audiences, better known as “race films”, were made in the United States between 1915 and 1952 and shown in over 1000 movie theaters across the country, though most of them are now lost due to neglect and poor preservation....
The Kino set, which is executive produced by Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and curated by historians Dr Jacqueline Stewart of the University of Chicago and Charles Musser of Yale University of 25 films, were restored from HD masters (transferred from archival elements preserved by several leading archives, including the Library of Congress), and is the first major collection of these race films to be remastered.
Though most of the films may fall short in terms of production values when compared to contemporary Hollywood studios films of the same period, these films are important because, according to Prof. Stewart, “I’m hoping that people will be able to see the films on their own terms… That it won’t be [seen as] a nebulous footnote that African Americans were making films during this period. I want people to let these films wash over them, and to put them in dialogue with the mainstream Hollywood films we’re more familiar with from that period.”
http://shadowandact.com/2016/05/18/kino-lorbers-pioneers-of-african-american-cinema-dvdblu-ray-set-coming-out-july-26/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:26 (nine years ago)