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*On Wednesday evening, April 3, 2013, there were as many stars at the exclusive world premiere of Free Angela and All Political Prisoners as there were in the sky. The starry political-crime-drama documentary screening about social activism icon Angela Davis took place at a place that is very familiar with Black star power as it [...]
*Filmmaker Shola Lynch’s documentary “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September, finally opened in theaters today with an assist from one of its producers Jada Pinkett Smith. The actress has been passionately plugging the film in radio and web interviews all week, even willing to answer off-topic [...]
*Sidra Smith is on top of the world after the recent success of her film, “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Now she’s working on the film’s national release set for April 5 this year. Sidra, if you didn’t know by now, is the identical twin sister of [...]
Angela Davis quickly became a figure for social justice and political freedom at the pinnacle of her young activism career. When her name was paired with revolution, Communism, the world was torn between American justice and real freedom. In the latest documentary, “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” the feminist studies professor gives a candid recount of her [...]
*New York, NY – Codeblack Films, a Lionsgate company, has acquired the theatrical rights to the political-crime-drama documentary about social activism icon Angela Davis. Through Codeblack Films’ partnership with AMC Theatres®, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners presented by BET Networks will release exclusively at AMC locations in select markets on April 5, 2013. Hailed [...]
*Halle Berry is reviving the conversation about exploring the life of Black Panther and activist Angela Davis in a biopic film. She first presented the idea publicly January 2011, but isn’t giving up hope that someday, someone, somewhere, will jump on the band wagon. “I’ll probably never get to play it in my life and [...]
*Among the films premiering at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival [TIFF] was a documentary about political activist, author and scholar Angela Davis that was produced to coincide with the 40th anniversary of her famous acquittal. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In August 1970, the then UCLA professor was charged with the aggravated kidnapping and [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “It is the calm and silent water that [...]
*Most people have probably never thought about it, but some would argue that Angela Davis is one of the mothers of the civil rights movement. She was a well-educated individual who traveled the world and came back to America to fight the war against black people during the civil rights movement. She even lost her [...]
*Activist and university professor Angela Davis – the former Communist Party associate and Black Panther Party member whose afro and raised fist alone personifies the black power movement of the 60s and 70s – says she isn’t 100 percent satisfied with the current occupant of the White House. “Of course there are critiques that I would [...]
*This year’s transformational and empowering event, Black Girls Rock! Is set to take place this weekend at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx, NY. Among the honorees are some of the world’s greatest women including political activist and scholar Angela Davis (pictured), gospel singer Shirley Caesar, Academy Award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson, WNBA president Laurel [...]
*During the Black Power Movement back in the Sixties and Seventies, most folks only got to know its leaders mostly by way of sound bites disseminated by the mass media. Whether it was Stokely Carmichael’s demand “We want black power!” or H. Rap Brown’s appeal for riots via “Burn baby burn!” or Eldridge Cleaver’s assertion [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE We have to talk about liberating minds as [...]
Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ————– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Today’s ‘Live Better With Willie Jolley’ Tip: The [...]
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