On Monday evening, I got a call from my friend Jesse who had been down at Occupy Boston earlier in the day. Mayor Menino and Boston Police were telling the protestors that they could not stay at the second camp they’d started a block away from the original Dewy Square site, on the Rose Kennedy [...]
Archive | video RSS feed for this section
Lolita’s Family Photos
Check out this video about my friend Lolita’s quest for her family photographs. (DDFRtv visits Lolita Parker Jr @ Boston from Digital Diaspora Family Reunion on Vimeo.) What the video does not fully explain is that Lolita is herself a professional photographer. Though we’re both from Boston, I met Lolita in Turkey Creek, MS at Derrick [...]
Save the Blacks
This is brilliant coverage of the fight of Turkey Creek, Mississippi African Americans to save their community. Turkey Creek was founded by freed slaves in 1866. Their descendants have been fighting dispossession by developers and environmental racism for years. I interviewed Wyatt Cenac’s guide, Derrick Evans, in January 2006, 6 months after Hurricane Katrina devastated his community with [...]
Frank Morris Murder Suspect Confronted by Local Reporter and Cold Case Film Crew
On Wednesday, after Stanley Nelson published information implicating Rayville, La. truck driver Leonard Spencer in the 1964 murder of Black shoe shop owner Frank Morris in Ferriday, La., local reporter Samantha Boatman from KNOE News confronted Spencer at a Rayville machine shop where he works. With her was a Civil Rights Cold Case Project film [...]
Gregory Isaacs when I was 13
Gregory Isaacs has died. I was first exposed to Gregory Isaacs in 1982 at age 13. The story begins with my cousin, Alan—a story I recounted here several years ago. When I was thirteen, my dad took me to the Film Forum, just outside the West Vilage in NYC. My cousin Alan’s first film was [...]
Photos and Video from Honk! 2010
10/17 UPDATE: I’ve started scanning my film from Honk. I’ll be adding all the film photos to this Flickr set over the next few weeks. 10/16 UPDATE: My third batch of Honk! 2010 photos is online. 10/15 UPDATE #2: There’s a nice article by Danielle Dreilinger in today’s Boston Globe, “A look back at Honk! [...]
All We Have (Treme)
If you’ve watched the 1st season of Treme then you know: incredible writing and acting in a hard-hitting rendition of post-Katrina life in New Orleans. This edit of clips by here’s luck makes an emotional arc out of the experiences of the main female characters. It is, as here’s luck calls it, a prayer for [...]
Home of the Free, Prison Camp of the Brown
The lawyer was en route but border patrol “didn’t want to wait” so they took her into detention. She allegedly ran a stop sign.
The Ever Miraculous Pete Seeger
Via Rolling Stone (sorry about the commercial; this is worth it). Pete Seeger may be 91 years old, but the iconic folk singer still has plenty to protest. On Friday night at New York’s City Winery, Seeger debuted a new song he wrote about the disastrous BP oil spill as part of a fundraising concert [...]
Arizona Police Officer Says SB 1070 Violates the Constitution
Over at Cure This my Twitter friend los anjalis blogged this video of Phoenix, Arizona police officer Paul Dobson talking about his opposition to SB 1070. “This law is – pure and simple – a racist law,” Dobson says. Thanks to los anjalis for also transcribing important portions of Officer Dobson’s statement: So under SB1070 [...]
Only an Expert
Picked up the new Laurie Anderson record yesterday. Most of the record is too beautiful for me to talk about in any way that would be interesting. This is work at a level where moods, emotions, ideas are conveyed with individual word choices and the sounds around them. So to share my enthusiasm a little [...]
Darling, It’s Alright
Hot new video from Francis and the Lights. It’s best if you watch it full screen.
Subscriptions (RSS)
BLOG POSTS
COMMENTS
PODCASTSElsewhere
- St. Petersburg Police Bind Hands And Feet Of 5-Year-Old African-American Girl
- Lynching In Tuskegee —blog this now!!
- More On The Prisoners From Orleans Parish Prison
- “Uppity,” That’s Racist for “Kill”
