Tag Archives: african america
No Distance (225/310/425/485)
Bill Duke directed this adaptation of Chester Himes’s 1958 crime novel A Rage in Harlem.
Bookstore (310/485)
An image of Lewis Michaux’s African National Memorial bookstore in 1961:
Michaux is featured in The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 which you can screen in full on youtube:
Reds (310/485)
Richard Yarde, “Malcolm X” (1978)
based on Malcolm’s mugshot when he was known in Harlem as Detroit Red:
Playlist (310/485)
Big Maybelle, Candy
Joe Turner, TV Mama
Muddy Waters, You Can’t Spend What You Ain’t Got
Fisk Jubilee Singers, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Bill Landford and the Landfordaires, Run on for a Long Time
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Didn’t It Rain (Live 1960)
Big Mama Thornton, Hound Dog
Chester Randle’s Soul Senders, Soul Brothers Testify Pt. 1
Nalo in SF/SF (HUM415)
Sad I missed this– and it was HERE at SFPL!: TWO authors I’ve taught while at SFSU, Nalo and Nnedi:
Turn on the close captioning– it’s hilarious! Ex. “my adrenaline” becomes “my dad rental in.”
