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  • Black MacBeth

    Flashback Friday: Orson Welles & The “Voodoo MacBeth”.

    (Image Source: Inverse)   It’s mind boggling to me, but back in the 1930s, during the height of the Great Depression, the federal government paid a then-unknown, and very young Orson Welles…

    September 1, 2017
  • noble johnson

    Flashback Friday: The oh-so Noble Mr. Johnson.

    Noble Johnson (Image Source)   A few months back, I shared the story of Madame Sul-Te-Wan, the Black actress who got her big Hollywood start in “The Birth of a Nation” in…

    August 4, 2017
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    So maybe Indians are kinda, sorta Black?

    Bonda girl in Orissa. Image by: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Flickr/Otabi kitahachi (via HuffPo)   Well, at least some Indians are… a few weeks ago, I confessed up to thinking as a kid that Indians…

    June 24, 2017
  • Bobby Seale Marlon Brando at Bobby Hutton Memorial Rally 0468 by Jeff Blankfort web

    Flashback Friday: Marlon Brando’s Eulogy for a Black Panther.

    Black Panther Bobby Seale with actor Marlon Brando. (Image Source: San Francisco Bay View)   In a San Francisco Bay View film review for the 2015 documentary “Listen to Me Marlon”, the…

    May 26, 2017
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