Danny Aiello. 1933-2019.
After appearing in the video for Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” Danny recorded a response song titled “Papa wants the Best for You.”
Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.
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Honors
Get bent.
Viva Zapata
Currently on exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in CDMX, Fabián Cháirez’s painting of Emiliano Zapata:
René Murat Auberjonois
René Auberjonois. 1940-2019.
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As Christian, Amy, and Declan indicated The Great White Hope is based on the life of Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion in the US. The PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness is widely available and worth screening not only for its depiction of Johnson, but its representation of the era. See, for example:
Simple Enough
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On this date in 1969 Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago police.
