Many would argue that Jan. 6 made clear the despicable systemic racial underpinnings inherent in policing. Unfortunately, this demented attitude is emboldened by the overall silence of a majority of
Sofiya Ballin is an independent journalist and the creator of the Black History Untold project.
Over the course of 30 minutes, 14 people artists and academics, activists, and wrongly imprisoned inmates sit in front of a draped black backdrop to share stories in Sofiya Ballin’s film “Black History Untold: Revolution.” The film, part of an ongoing oral history project by Ballin, is the focus of a series of virtual events offered by the Penn Museum this month and beyond. A Feb. 10 screening of the film was followed by a discussion with Ballin and collaborative programs manager Zoë Rayn Evans. The series continues with a conversation about honoring Black stories in white institutions on Feb. 17 and a screening for students on Feb. 24.
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Replay Video UP NEXT Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better. That is just one of the quotes from Carter G. Woodson, who is credited with creating the event that would evolve into the Black History Month we celebrate today.
Black History Month was designated in 1976 and has been recognized by every U.S. president in the month of February since. Woodson was a historian, whom with minister Jesse E. Moorland, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). It s known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). But the mission remains the same: to research, recognize and promote the achievements of Black Americans and those of African descent.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.
February 13, 2021
When Black groups agitate for better living conditions and an end to systemic racism and police brutality, they are quickly labeled a threat to national security.Warner Bros.
“The Black Panthers are the single greatest threat to our national security. Our counterintelligence program must prevent the rise of a Black messiah from among their midst.” And so begins
Judas and the Black Messiah, with an ominous speech from the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (played by Martin Sheen) in 1968. The film, which debuted yesterday in theaters and on HBO Max, is part crime thriller, part civil-rights historical drama. It tells the story of the rise of the Black Panther Party’s deputy chairman, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), and the informant who helped the FBI orchestrat