Son of the South Review: An Involving True-Life Story About the 60s Civil Rights Movement Son of the South Review: An Involving True-Life Story About the 60s Civil Rights Movement
Executive produced by Spike Lee, Barry Alexander Brown s drama features fine performances across the board, and a vivid evocation of a tumultuous period.
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Director: Barry Alexander Brown
With: Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Cedric the Entertainer, Julia Ormond, Brian Dennehy, Shamier Anderson, Chaka Forman, Sienna Guillory, Sharonne Lanier, Nicole Ansari-Cox.
Running time: Running time: 103 MIN.
Variety
Although he occasionally uses a broad brush dipped in primary colors while fashioning his admiring portrait of Bob Zellner, the grandson of a Ku Klux Klansman who improbably evolved into a civil rights activist during the early 1960s, filmmaker Barry Alexander Brown shrewdly and intelligently avoids most of the “white savior” clichés c
Today, Feb. 4, is the birthday of Rosa Parks, whose act of resistance in refusing to give up her seat on the bus sparked the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956.
This Feb. 4, we plan to join the Labor Network for Sustainability on Transit Equity Day as they connect Rosa Parks’ act of nonviolent resistance to the rights of all people to high-quality public transportation run on clean energy. You should, too.
“Urban transit systems in most American cities have become a genuine civil rights issue because the layout of rapid-transit systems determines the accessibility of jobs.”
We are thinking of this Martin Luther King Jr. quote as Black History Month begins because 65 years after Rosa Parks’ act of resistance, transit equity is still being fought for. Access to safe, reliable, environmentally sustainable, and affordable transit is still threatened by lack of funding even while it is more important than ever.
Rosa Parks honored with free transit rides on Thursday February 04 2021
TriMet has declared Feb. 4 to be Rosa Parks Equity Day and all regional bus, train and streetcar rides are free.
All rides on TriMet are free Thursday, Feb. 4, in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Fares will not be collected on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT during the first annual Rosa Parks Equity Day. Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN are joining the regional transit agency and not collecting fares.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is best known for refusing to give up a seat on a bus reserved for white people on Dec. 1, 1955, in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. That led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and resulted in a United States Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Just over a year after Parks act of defiance, city officials were ordered to desegregate Montgomery s buses and Rosa Parks sealed her place in U.S. history.
Black history is a history of prayer.
Beginning in the woods and marshes on the edges of plantations across the deep south, enslaved Black Americans secretly gathered in worship, free from the censorship of white slave owners. Anti–literacy laws made Scripture readings rare. Singing was also limited because it risked discovery. As a result, these underground Christian gatherings beneath the stars were devoted to the only thing Black Americans could do–
Pray.
Prayers of the Antebellum
Though little is recorded of these underground prayer meetings, there are records of prayer events in the antebellum era. Like in 1813, when enslaved and free Black worshipers in Wilmington, Delaware defiantly gathered on French Street to publicly pray for freedom. Or in 1857, when Black and White Christians gathered to pray in Charleston, South Carolina, giving rise to a revival where more than 2,000 diverse people joined together daily for 8 weeks to cry out to God for freedom. Over time, praye
PANAMA CITY Two traveling exhibits focused on the Civil Rights movement will be on display at Panama City s City Hall in conjunction with Black History Month.
The Panama City Community Redevelopment Agency is hosting The Legacy of Rosa Parks” and “The Women of the Movement” from Troy (Alabama) University’s Rosa Parks Museum.
According to a release from Caitlin Lawrence, public information officer for the City of Panama City, “The Legacy of Rosa Parks” exhibit examines the story of Parks, who like the many other African Americans in her community of Montgomery, Alabama decided the time for change was long overdue.