Good Morning POU! The Slap Heard Round The World They called it the "Slap Heard 'Round the World." It happened partway through "In the Heat of the Night" -- a movie released at the height of racial tensions during the Civil Rights Era (on August 2, 1967) -- in a scene where a bigoted Southern cotton plantation owner slaps Sidney Poitier and Poitier slaps back just as … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Historic Pop Culture Moments
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Tuesday Evening Thread: Wakanda Ready!
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Sunday Open Thread: Lady Day & Satchmo
Good Sunday Morning POU! How about a lil Lady Day and Satchmo this fine morning? In September 1946, Holiday began work on what would be her only major film New Orleans. She starred opposite Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman. New Orleans was slated to be a musical romance film featuring Billie as a singing maid and Louis Armstrong as a bandleader who perform together and … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Lady Day & Satchmo
Wednesday Open Thread: Trailblazing Black Female Directors
Euzhan Palcy is a film director, writer and producer from Martinique. She is notable for being the first black woman director produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM), for A Dry White Season, as well as the only woman filmmaker to have directed Marlon Brando, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years. Palcy is also the first black artist to win a César … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Trailblazing Black Female Directors
Sunday Evening Thread: Oscar Night
44 years ago, Brando's protest Marlon Brando became involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the early 1970s. In 1973, he decided to make a statement about the Wounded Knee incident and contacted AIM about providing a person to accept the Oscar for him. Dennis Banks and Russell Means picked Sacheen Littlefeather. She wore an Apache dress on the occasion. … [Read more...] about Sunday Evening Thread: Oscar Night