Fathering Thoughts

Saturday, 15 June 2013, 19:26 | Category : African, Culture, Hispanic, Movies, Television
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Modern American popular traditions break Mother’s Day down to a day off for mom with breakfast in bed and the laundry folded; for Father’s Day, dad gets to play with the new gas grill, catch a live ball game, enjoy that 3′inch thick steak (when he knows he shouldn’t). Dad’s induldged and mom’s pampered. As [...]

42 in ’99: A Home Run with 44

This week, First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Rachel Robinson (wife of Jackie Robinson), cast and filmmakers of the new Jackie Robinson biopic “’42” to the White House for a “Film Workshop for Students.” Personally, I wouldn’t call this a workshop when students aren’t holding and operating cameras, writing scripts, or rehearsing/reviewing scenes. So this post [...]

ITVS Community Cinema @ Washington DCJCC – “The Powerbroker,” “Soul Food Junkies”

Here’s what’s coming up for Community Cinema DC at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center (the second venue is Busboys and Poets). You’ll want to be there and get involved. Find a Community Cinema screening near you — the season continues through June 2013. And there’s no admission fee – Read FREE – only a [...]

“The Man” is Back! in Baltimore (January 12) – MTPC presents

Eclectique916.com with the Zhanra Group (Clayton LeBouef), and the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation presented screenings of THE MAN at Busboys and Poets; then there was National Geographic, and then THE MAN was invited to the Lake Arts Foundation Festival in Chautauqua, NY followed by discussions led with Clayton LeBouef (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Something [...]

Slavery Unchained

Why does the slave ever love? Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wretched away by the hand of violence? Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs writing as Linda Brent People are trapped in history and history is trapped in [...]