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This is beautiful.
A still from Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), a breathtaking film about the harsh faults and realities of gentrification, specifically in San Francisco.
The city that was once full of historic neighborhoods is forcing natives, majority being members of the Black community, out of their sacred homes. The film particularly highlights the Fillmore District which was once known as the Harlem of the West. Gentrification as most of us know is a real issue but it becomes rapidly more evident in the blink of an eye.
Inspired by the true narrative of Fillmore District native & lead actor Jimmy Fails, this film is a catalyst for an initiative much larger than the screen could capture.
Make an effort to see this and you absolutely won’t regret it.
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#blackfilm #lastblackmaninsanfrancisco #dannyglover #blackactors #jonathanmajors #blacklove
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Three Roads To Tomorrow (1958). Dir. Humphrey Swingler.
Three Nigerian students from different corners of Nigeria come to Ibadan University. While they sit talking in a dance club, the film traces back each of their journeys to the university. Scenes of their homes give a new impression of an old country, and we come to understand how a modern network of communications - all dependent on oil and petrol - has opened up what was not so long ago inaccessible territory’ (Monthly Film Bulletin, 1961, 14).
Over a map of Nigeria, the British commentator introduces the film. ‘This is a short tale of three long journeys which changed three lives’, he begins. ‘Modern transport and oil power have changed the lives of all Nigeria and that is part of our theme. The rest of our theme is where these journeys lead.’ The film shows young students in a dancing club on the campus of Ibadan University. The commentator then introduces three of these students and recalls their journeys here. First, Reuben, an Ibo. After saying farewell to his father - who runs a motorboat - and friends, he sets off on a BP lorry, and then on a bus, before finally crossing the water and reaching the University. Next is Moyo, a Yoruba, cycling through the streets of Lagos and returning home to say goodbye to his family. He travels by train and on his arrival at the University meets Reuben. Finally, Ado, a Hausa, who invites his new friends to travel by plane to visit his family in the North. Ado’s father is an Emir, and the film shows the traditional festival - the salah - which greets them. The film concludes with further shots of celebration - including a re-enactment by weapon-brandishing horsemen - as these three men, 'fellow students and fellow citizens of a nation of tomorrow’, smile and laugh together.
The film is available here on the Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire website, which also holds “over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies.”
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“THEY DIE BY DAWN” is an all star cast black western… now streaming on TIDAL. #supportblackbusiness #blackfilm #western #filmvillage #tidal #KIQ
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President Obama hugs Poitier at Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony 8/12/2009. NARA ID 183898370.
#RIP Sidney Poitier
Poitier with Harry Belafonte & Charlton Heston at the March on Washington, 8/28/1963. NARA ID 542061.
Universal Newsreel - Card Catalog 1929 - 1967, NARA ID 102702400.
NYT ad 3/29/1960 signed by Poitier and others calling for broader support for the civil rights movement, from landmark USSC case Abernathy v Patterson involving Martin Luther King, Jr. , NARA ID 2641477.
President and “Lady Bird” Johnson greet Poitier at the White House, 12/13/1966. Johnson Library image.
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