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The WHACKO-TV Video Travel Blog hit the streets of Harlem, New York. You can practically smell the aroma of this New York City neighborhood. Catch itThe WHACKO-TV Video Travel Blog hit the streets of Harlem, New York. You can... more
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A documentary short that features "Last Poets" Abiodun Oyewole as he inspires and mentors artists. A Harlem Spoken Word hot spot.A documentary short that features "Last Poets" Abiodun Oyewole as he... more
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In 1997, Malibu Film Foundation was founded by writer/producer/director, David Katz, to produce the Malibu Film Festival. The Malibu Film Festival is set to make a run this year from September 9-15 in the renowned beachfront community that is its home... http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=147In 1997, Malibu Film Foundation was founded by writer/producer/director, David Katz,... more
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Live from The Savoy Ballroom - July 28, 1948 - Jazz greats Lucky Millinder and Ella Fitzgerald on Newstalgia Downbeat this holiday weekend.Live from The Savoy Ballroom - July 28, 1948 - Jazz greats Lucky Millinder and Ella... more
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Poet Gil Scott-Heron dies
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 27, 2011 11:34 p.m. EDT
PROGENITOR OF HIP-HOP, GODFATHER OF RAP
Gil Scott-Heron was known for his poetry and soul works in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
He was known for his poetry and soul works in the late 1960s and early 1970s
After a 13-year hiatus from making music, Scott-Heron put out a new album last year
(CNN) -- Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and musician best known for the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday, his publicist at XL Recordings said.
Born in 1949, Scott-Heron was known for his poetry and soul works in the late 1960s and early 1970s, according to his official website.
His early albums, "Pieces of a Man" and "Winter in America," has been credited with influencing other musical genres like hip hop.
After a 13-year hiatus from making music, Scott-Heron put out a new album last year called "I'm New Here."
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CNN UPDATE...
Poet, musician Gil Scott-Heron dies
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 28, 2011 1:43 a.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Gil Scott-Heron is best known for the 1970 song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
NEW: Scott-Heron's music has been sampled by hip hop stars, including Kanye West and Common
NEW: In 2008, Scott-Heron told a reporter he had contracted HIV
After a 13-year hiatus from making music, Scott-Heron put out a new album last year
(CNN) -- Gil Scott-Heron, dubbed the "godfather of rap" for his mix of poetry and music, died Friday in New York, his publicist at XL Recordings said. He was 62.
It was not immediately known what killed Scott-Heron, who was best known for the 1970 song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," a politically and socially charged song that examined the African American condition in America at the time. The song was banned by some radio stations.
Scott-Heron died at 4 p.m. at a New York hospital, said Lisa Gottheil, his publicist at XL Recordings.
Scott-Heron defined the genre, long-time friend and former bandmate Charlie Saunders told CNN. Saunders worked on Scott-Heron's 1970 debut album "Small Talk At 125th & Lenox."
Saunders, a percussionist, said the last time he saw Scott-Heron was about two years ago when he needed a place to stay.
"He came by our house to get himself together. He spent 4 to 5 days and then moved on," Saunders said.
Much of Scott-Heron's poetry and music reflected his struggles with drugs and alcohol.
Born in 1949, Scott-Heron first gained fame for his poetry and spoken word performances in the late 1960s. By the mid-1970s, he had published two books of poetry and recorded four albums, including "Small Talk At 125th & Lenox."
His early albums, "Pieces of a Man" and "Winter in America," have been credited with influencing other musical genres, such as hip hop. But it was the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" that put Scott-Heron on the musical map.
His music has been sampled by everyone from Kanye West, who sampled "Comment #1" for his 2010 song "Who Will Save America," to Common's sample of "No Knock" on his 2008 hit "Universal Mind Control."
After a 13-year hiatus from making music, Scott-Heron put out a new album last year called "I'm New Here."
In a 2008 interview with New York magazine, Scott-Heron revealed he had contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, after years of batting drug and alcohol addictions. In 2001 and 2007, he was jailed on drug charges.
CNN's Denise Quan and Greg Morrison contributed to this report.Poet Gil Scott-Heron dies
By the CNN Wire Staff
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At Cannes Film Festival, short films are prominently represented at the Competition, such as when the short films Jury awards a Palme d'or, and at the Short Film Corner, a professional area for meeting people, exchanging ideas and promoting films. A number of initiatives aimed at supporting the talent of the future have already been introduced… http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=126At Cannes Film Festival, short films are prominently represented at the Competition,... more
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"During his annual budget address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce that he is sticking with a plan to lay off thousands of city teachers.
Sources say Bloomberg plans to announce that 4,666 teachers will be laid off, with an additional 1,500 positions cut through attrition. "
Here we go again. Education sure gets hit hard when there's a budget gap to close. I'm pretty sure there will be some far reaching consequences attached to such an action.
What do you guys make of this? What will happen when that many teachers get the axe? What should be cut instead of teachers jobs?
There's a short video after the jump."During his annual budget address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce... more
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Linda M. Reynolds shattered the glass ceiling for women and people of color as NYC's Chief Deputy Sheriff from 1990--2006. In a revealing interview, hear about the challenges and achievements of her history making position from Reynolds and a few of the people who worked for her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvaIe9jjmEkLinda M. Reynolds shattered the glass ceiling for women and people of color as... more
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A woman kidnapped as a baby from Harlem Hospital in 1987 -- abducted at 19 days old by a woman who had been lurking around the hospital for weeks wearing a nurse's uniform -- has been found alive and well.
Some 23 years ago, Carlina White was rushed to the emergency room by her parents, who handed her to the woman they thought was a nurse, only to return later and be told that their daughter had vanished.
Carlina exclusively shared with The Post her emotional roller-coaster ride as Nejdra Nance living in Bridgeport, Conn. -- just 45 miles from her birth parents Joy White and Carl Tyson in The Bronx -- to their long-delayed reunion.
She long harbored doubts about the woman she called mom.
The drug-abusing Agnotta Pettway -- who has several aliases, according to Carlina -- often abused her, once pummeling her with a shoe so hard that it left an imprint on her face.
At 16, Carlina got pregnant and asked her "mother" for a birth certificate so she could get prenatal care. Her mother could not provide one.
When she wanted to get a job and a driver's license, her mother could provide no documentation. She also began noticing more and more that she didn't look like her mother.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alive_and_well_after_years_csPmfEkVeUXYgRUTbYbyLL#ixzz1BclSr2paA woman kidnapped as a baby from Harlem Hospital in 1987 -- abducted at 19 days old by... more
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While the U.S. wages criminal wars around the world, and no one is held accountable, we put a Congressman with 50 years of service on trial for frivolous ethics violations.While the U.S. wages criminal wars around the world, and no one is held accountable,... more
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“The Harlem Album: A Century in Images” is a remarkable collection of photographs curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Home to writers and revolutionaries, artists and musicians, Harlem has also long been a source of inspiration for countless photographers. The selection of images provided here includes photography by James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Dawoud Bey and Kenneth Nelson, with photographs that reveal a broad and beautiful new visual survey of the neighborhood.
“The choices in this collection were all about offering a wide variety of ways of looking and seeing and thinking,” says Studio Museum Curator Golden. Even when it comes to some of Harlem’s legendary icons, the variety of photographs is telling. There are the pictures of Malcolm X addressing a crowd, but also intimate scenes in which Diana Ross and James Brown shed their public masks. Joe Louis, surrounded by cheering locals, peers coolly at the camera. And Langston Hughes stands, appropriately, on his own stoop, an architectural feature that serves as a “site of memory” in many Harlem photographs. In a neighborhood that has symbolized so much, to people all around the world, the stoop was also a kind of threshold: between home and the larger world.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a memorable slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/the-harlem-album-a-century-in-images/“The Harlem Album: A Century in Images” is a remarkable collection of... more
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Brett and Ellen review "For Colored Girls," filmmaker Tyler Perry's adaptation of a lauded 1975 play starring Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton and Phylicia Rashad as an interrelated group of women in Harlem. Neither Brett nor Ellen have much love for this high profile project.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi, Ellen Fox, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Brett and Ellen review "For Colored Girls," filmmaker Tyler Perry's... more
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Joseph "Jazz" Hayden Founder of Still Here Harlem Productions filmed these 3 undercover NYPD police officers search, frisk and arrest a Harlem citizen after finding a joint of marijuana. Jazz, vocally questioned the officers conduct and procedures, considering that a small amount of marijuana is considered a violation in New York State. This incident took place two days after a very violent shooting incident in Harlem involving police http://bit.ly/cy4t5X and community members .
Marijuana possession is legally decriminalized in New York State, yet New York City makes more pot arrests than any other city in the world. Since 1993 NYPD has arrested close to a half million people for possessing small amounts of marijuana. In 2008 alone nearly 90 percent of these arrests were made on black and latino New Yorkers. (Harry G. Levine, The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City, http://bit.ly/axTe0C)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSxUgiobcT8Joseph "Jazz" Hayden Founder of Still Here Harlem Productions filmed these 3... more
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Raindrops On Roses And Ruben and Isabel Toledo
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Bright Stephen Burrows and warm woolen mittens…
Though white paper packages tied up with strings are not on my list, these are a few of my favorite people. Unless you are dead, you know that Target is opening its first store in New York City…East Harlem to be exact. Although it is still a bit of a schlepp for me, seeing that I am a devout downtown-ite, the great news is that the Target folks had the where-with-all to engage designers that would resonate in their new neighborhood. Most notably, Stephen Burrows and the illustrious Isabel and Ruben Toledo. When Target launches those limited edition designer bits with the likes of Zac Posen or Alexander McQueen, that stuff doesn’t really float my boat. At least now, I get to crow about Ruben and Isabel Toledo’s swimwear collection and Stephen Burrows’ signature hand print T-shirts. Why? Because I lerve them. I have known Stephen since the early days of Studio 54…I was a Burrow-ette. And as for the Toledos, well, name me one other couple in the fashion industry that is as admired, respected and talented as those two, besides maybe Inez van Lamsveerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Go ahead….name another couple on that level…you see…ungats? Sorry, but Katy Perry and Russell Brand do not cut it.
Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/youcallthisfashion/raindrops-on-roses-and-ruben-and-isabel-toledo#ixzz0uQfF9iUNRaindrops On Roses And Ruben and Isabel Toledo
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The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most significant periods in African American cultural history.The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most significant periods in African American... more
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The Festival de Cannes has celebrated cinema for more than 60 years, and this year holds its festivities May 12-24, in Cannes. Festival de Cannes offers programmes and events which enable festival goers to discover its offerings differently... including...http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=32The Festival de Cannes has celebrated cinema for more than 60 years, and this year... more
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A mixture of extreme sports, adventure and goofiness that can be hazardous to a competitor's health or self-esteem. Features a couple of street biker gangs revving it up in Harlem.A mixture of extreme sports, adventure and goofiness that can be hazardous to a... more
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Storage was exhibited at Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasioarte (HSF) in New York from November 2 – 30, 2009.
The installation is composed of 200 hand-made bricks, shaped, painted, and cooked by Valerio Ricci during his three-month stay at HSF. They covered most of the floor’s surface in a room, leaving only a perimetric passageway free. Ordered in an extensive grid, their yellow-glazed ceramic shined as a carpet of gold bullions. Throughout the show, HSF visitors were invited to take home the bricks. Each brick is initialed, dated and numbered on the bottom; each guest could have a brick by filling out a form with his/her contacts and the number of the brick.Storage was exhibited at Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasioarte (HSF) in New York... more
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