Black Bird Press News & Review

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

San Francisco Black Film Festival, June 13-16, 2013

AGAINST THE GRAIN (127M, USA) DIR BY ELIAS MAEL

An inner-city kid goes to college in hopes of becoming a neurosurgeon one day. Award-winning screenwriter and former Laney Student, Elias G. Mael was...

05.23.13

Y.T.F. (YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER) (46M, U S A) DIR. BY DOMINGO GUYTON

Jesus Christ in a modern world today. His Disciples are hip...

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05.23.13

KILLER B3 (94M, U S A) DIR. BY MURV SEYMOUR

Killer B3 puts you in front, behind and inside the more...

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05.23.13

SWEET, SWEET COUNTRY (19M, U S A) DIR. BY DEHANZA ROGERS

Living in a small Southern town, 20 year-old refugee Ndizeye struggles...

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05.23.13

L’IRRÉSISTIBLE ASCENSION DE MOÏSE KATUMBI (52M, BELGIUM) DIR. BY THIERRY MICHEL

::ENGLISH SUBTITLES:: Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on...

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05.23.13

LIFE’S A BITCH (AND THEN YOU DIE) (23M, FRANCE) DIR. BY GUILLAUME NOURA

Paris, 20Th district. 17 years old Herve spends his days screwing...

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05.23.13

AYANA (38M, PORTUGAL, U S A) DIR. BY JOANA LIMA MARTINS

‘Ayana’ is a loose adaptation of Stephen King’s homonymous short story....

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05.23.13

4-1-9 (14M, U S A) DIR. BY ALEXANDER ETSEYATSE

FOUR ONE NINE (2012, 15 MIN) Short film Four One Nine...

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05.23.13

KARIM (12M, U S A) DIR. BY CARL SEATON

Karim is the story of an everyday man that witnesses a...

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05.23.13

THE UNTIMELY CONCURRENCE (33M, U S A) DIR. BY ANGELA MATEMOTJA

A comment on Homosexuality in the African American Community and how...

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05.23.13

FOUR OF HEARTS (98M, U S A) DIR. BY ERIC HAYWOOD

Stuck in a six-month sexual ‘dry spell,’ a young husband and...

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The Black Scholar Magazine (Founding Publisher, Dr. Nathan Hare)

Robert Chrisman: A Celebration of the Life

Father's Day, June 16th, 6-9 p.m.
San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center

Join us as we gather to celebrate the life of Robert Chrisman (1937-2013) with nosh, wine, conversation and poetry. Catering provided by Brenda's French Soul Food. Cash Bar with proceeds benefiting The Black Scholar/Black World Foundation.

Instead of flowers, donations to honor Robert Chrisman can be made to The Black World Foundation.

Please make checks payable to 'The Black Scholar' and mail to:

The Black Scholar
Box #1001
4739 University Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98105-4412

THE BLACK SCHOLAR is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal providing cogent articles that help the understanding of issues of social concern to black Americans and other peoples of African descent across the world. To provide full range for the development of black thought in a climate where fora are still limited, we emphasize writings by black authors. The journal was launched in 1969 with the premise that black authors, scholars, artists and activists could participate in dialogue within its pages, “uniting the academy and the street.” Its editors have been dedicated to finding and developing new talent and continuing to publish established authors. TBS is now a refereed journal. Nonetheless, it retains its policy of publishing non-academic organic intellectuals from a variety of vocations and avocations.

TBS (ISSN 0006-4246) is published four times a year by the Black World Foundation, a non-profit educational organization, in association with Paradigm Publishers in Boulder, Colorado.

Advertising/production/general inquiries:
Woodford@theblackscholar.org
telephone: 734-213-2400

Editorial Mailing Address: The Black Scholar, Box #1001, 4739 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105-4412

Monday, May 27, 2013

Who is the Real Donald Freeman?

Donald Freeman of Cleveland, Ohio. Another Donald Freeman is now known as Baba Lumumba in Washington DC. Both men were members of the Revolutionary Action Movement or RAM. Both contributed to the radical magazine SoulBook. Here is the other Donald Freeman in Wash DC with Marvin X:

Marvin X and Baba Lumumba (Donald Freeman), brother of ancestor Mamadou
Lumumba (Kenny Freeman). Playthell falsely claims he sent Mamadou to recruit
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale into the RAM Black Panther Party, which did briefly
exist before the Newton/Seale version, but Playthell's involvement is highly suspect,
certainly Baba has no knowledge of him. Marvin X introduced Eldridge Cleaver to
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton after Cleaver and Marvin X founded the Black House,
political/cultural center in San Francisco, 1967.