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Wednesday Open Thread|Blaxploitation Movies Week
Today’s movies are a trilogy that helped define the era and ushered in a Black Hero Original: John Shaft..complete with an Oscar Winning theme song and two sequels. Shaft is a 1971 American...
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Thursday Open Thread | Blaxploitation Movies Week
Today is Ladies Day. Can’t talk Blaxploitation and Ladies without talking about Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson. Pam Grier…Pam Grier…Pam Grier.. Brought it! Was fierce, beautiful, proud, smart, sexy and...
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Friday Open Thread |Blaxploitation Movies Week
Today’s Movies: Cooley High Cooley High is a 1975 American film based upon the real high school located on the near north side of Chicago produced and released by American International Pictures and...
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Saturday Open Thread | Blaxploitation Movies Week
This has been a fun week for me. Today, it’s just remembering films of the genre that we know. Looking back over this week, I hope you can see why I feel that Blaxploitation hasn’t gotten it’s due. The...
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Sunday Open Thread
Good Morning. I thought a number of the segments of Rev. Al’s Advancing the Dream were pretty good. Tyler Perry Magic Johnson
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Thursday Open Thread | The Films of Spike Lee
This week, we’re exploring the films of Spike Lee. 1992 Malcolm X Malcolm X is a 1992 American biographical motion picture about the African-American figure Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike...
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Friday Open Thread | The Films of Spike Lee
This week, we’re exploring the films of Spike Lee. 1996 Get on the Bus Get on the Bus is a 1996 film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to...
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Saturday Open Thread | The Films of Spike Lee
This week, we’ve explored the films of Spike Lee. 2000 Bamboozled Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors...
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Monday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Patsy Cline
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: Patsy Cline. Virginia Patterson Hensley (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), known professionally as...
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Tuesday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Loretta Lynn
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14, 1932) is a previously chart-topping,...
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Wednesday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Dolly Parton
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: Dolly Parton. Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946[2]) is an American singer-songwriter,...
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Thursday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | The Judds
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: The Judds The Judds were an American country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter,...
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Friday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Faith Hill
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: Faith Hill Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry; September 21, 1967) is an American country pop singer...
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Saturday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Shania Twain
I thought we’d share a little country music this week, focusing on the ladies. Today’s selection: Shania Twain Shania Twain, OC (/ʃəˌnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a...
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Sunday Open Thread | Ladies of Country Music Week | Reba McEntire
I hope you’ve enjoyed this week with the Ladies of Country Music. We end this week with Reba McEntire. Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American country music artist and actress. She...
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Thursday Open Thread
Jingle Bells” is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the...
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Sunday Open Thread | Praise and Worship
“What Child Is This?” is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest...
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Thursday Open Thread | Lionel Richie Week
Let’s applaud SG2 for the marvelous work she did with our Christmas Music Month. She did an absolutely fabulous job. Let’s end the year with the wonderful Lionel Richie. Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr....
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Friday Open Thread |Lionel Richie Week
We continue with Lionel Richie. Solo career Richie’s 1982 self-titled debut contained three hit singles: the U.S. #1 song “Truly”, which launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of...
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Saturday Open Thread | Lionel Richie Week
More from Lionel Richie. In 1986, Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of US and UK hits including “Say You, Say Me” (U.S. #1), “Dancing on the...
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