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Malcolm X Was Killed Today... Watch Detailed Portrait Doc "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" Now
A birth and a death... yesterday in history, Sidney Poitier was born; Today in history... February 21st, 1965, Malcolm Little/Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was killed in New York City.
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The Egyptian Revolution Started Today... Sundance Doc "1/2 Revolution" Captures The Uprising's Immediacy
Today in Cairo's Tahrir Square, thousands of Egyptians rallied to mark the first anniversary of the country's 2011 uprising that began on Jan. 25, 2011, which led to then president Hosni Mubarak officially stepping down on February11, 2011, only to be replaced by military rule; and thus...
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Algerian Rebellion Against French Colonial Rule Began Today... ("Battle Of Algiers")
Today in history, November 1, 1954, in North Africa, Algerian nationalists began their successful 8-year rebellion against French rule - a period that's realistically and rivetingly documented in Gillo Pontecorvo's landmark 1966 film, Battle Of Algiers; a film we've mentioned a number of times prev...
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Talking Pictures Arrived On The Silver Screen Yesterday...
Didn't have time to post this yesterday... but yesterday in history, October 6th, 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded in talking pictures to prohibition era movie-going audiences. The film starring Al Jolson, features both silent and sound synchronized scenes.
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Miles Davis Died Today... Who'll Get To Play Him First On Film? Don Cheadle Or Snoop Dogg?
Today in history... September 28, 1991... Jazz legend Miles Davis died at age 65.
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Commemorating 9/11 On Screen...
First, if you live in New York City, TONIGHT, at 7:45PM, the Walter Reade theater at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, will be screening Spike Lee's 25th Hour - the first major motion picture shot on location in New York after September 11, 2001.
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Mobutu Sese Seko Died Today… Watch "Mobutu, King of Zaire"
Today in history... September 7, 1997... Congo/Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, died in exile in Morocco, from prostate cancer.
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"Fresh" Chess Connections Starring Laurence Fishburne & Samuel L. Jackson (Today In History)
Today in history, September 1, 1972... American chess legend Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky of the then Soviet Union to win the international chess crown in a match made for the cold war era, in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Thurgood Marshall Made History Today... Watch Laurence Fishburne Embody Him
Today in history... August 30th, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice.
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Celebrating Julie Dash's "Daughters Of The Dust" 20-Year Anniversary
As we've already covered, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It celebrates its 25th anniversary this year; another title also celebrating a pivotal release anniversary this year is Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust - her challenging seminal feature film, set in the very early 1900s, which takes a look at...
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