For America's 250th birthday, see her true colors.
Filmed in Super 35 by Ernest Dickerson and enlarged to 70mm for select first-run engagements in 1992, Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated, Denzel Washington-starring MALCOLM X screens on 70mm 🎞️ on Saturday, July 4 and Tuesday, July 7.
🎟️: filmlinc.org/70
My son just asked why Netherlands has so many Black people on the team
I told him we are everywhere.
A 'Song For My Father' www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
“So, it’s just — it’s just an opportunity to really just kind of blow things wide open and go, “Well, this is another huge part of the story that hasn’t been told.”
For Black women farmers, tending the land is ancestral and healing
Black farmers have lost millions of acres since the early 1900s. Today a generation of growers is working to rebuild and reconnect communities to the land.
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Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.