Multi-faceted photojournalist, Gordon Parks (born 1912), documented many of the greatest images of the 20th century. He expanded his artistic pursuits from visual images to literature with his first n...
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The life of Gordon Parks is a study in self-reliance and determination. Moreover, it has served as a blueprint for many people on how to overcome racial, social, and economic barriers within America. ...
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Gordon Parks is a photographer, journalist, and film director who has written books that in their way celebrate the black family, black strength, and the determination of blacks to survive. Also a com...
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Critical Essay by Hubbell Robinson
Shaft emerges in [Shaft's Big Score] as a highly lethal and effective weapon of destruction and not much else….
Gordon Parks directed and keeps thi...
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Critical Essay by Philip T. Hartung
[Most] of our pictures with and about Negroes these days lack authentic black backgrounds and thinking—and are a disappointment. Instead of just making film...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
Humphrey Bogart is alive and well and living in Harlem. His skin is black, but he lives with it. His private eye affairs are still more quixotic than lucrative. His lip st...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Cooper
John Shaft, private eye, aspires to be a steely black version of Sam Spade but more closely achieves an ironic, dimpled James Bond. Shaft's Big Score … c...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Tarratt
[Shaft's Big Score] is a development rather than an imitation of the earlier film….
To a greater extent than its predecessor, Shaft's Big Sc...
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The festival screened 70 films this year, including VH1’s Last Days of Left Eye, a full-length vivid documentary recounting the final month in the life of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes of...
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Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2007. There are 299 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, A...
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LIFE magazine, the thin Parade-like weekly newspaper supplement. The company will continue the LIFE brand online, and in books.
Full release afer the jump
TIME INC. TO CLOSE LIFE MAGAZINE NEWSPA...
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Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in America. Once each minute in this country, someone dies from it. And, all too often, early symptoms go unrecognized until too late.PBS is spotlighting this cris...
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American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting, by Steven Biel. W.W. Norton, 215 pages, $21.95.
American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood’s American Masterpiece, by T...
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American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting, by Steven Biel. W.W. Norton, 215 pages, $21.95. American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood’s American Masterpiece, by Thoma...
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With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusad...
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“This whole mess that we’re all in, called being alive, is just a fascinating dilemma,” said Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO’s documentary division. “And how peopl...
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“This whole mess that we’re all in, called being alive, is just a fascinating dilemma,” said Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO’s documentary division. “And how peopl...
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Gordon Parks
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Critical Essay by Hubbell Robinson
Urbanworld Vibe Film Festival Announces Winners
