An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
In this episode we will talk about the movie Black Panther. It is one of the Marvel family of films, distributed by Disney. It made 1.3 billion dollars in box office. Black movies do sell. It was nice to have a brown super hero and for him to have his own movie.
It was nice to have brown people saving other brown people
Wakanda created an amazing space for brown people.
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research.
Repose is the state of rest, sleep or tranquility. There is always a time to rest because it is one of the first things the Lord taught us. After working six days, He rested. We need to take his example and build it into our routines.
Today we are talking about a picture made during the Code Area. That was when there was an organization that strictly monitored the content of movies. Made in 1934 and given the certificate number of 412. Imitation of Life was a Universal Picture. It is remarkable this one was ever made. It was the story of a white woman taking in a black woman and them raising their daughters together facing identity and racial issues.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 26, 1862. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells found better pay as a teacher.
Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, where her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. Subjected to continued threats and criminal violence, including when a white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses, Wells left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois.
Even though she moved, it didn’t stop her from documenting the lynchings of African Americans exposing the brutality and analyzing the sociology. She was outspoken in the women’s rights and civil rights movement. In 2020, she was posthumously honored with a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work reporting on violence against African Americans.
A story is reported that Wells went to lunch with Frederick Douglass, in a place she never thought would let her in. Yet, Douglass showed it was possible to eat in a White only restaurant.
In addition to working in educational facilities and women’s clubs, she also worked on the women’s suffrage movement. She often would challenge the Caucasian women for not speaking out against lynching when they were talking about women’s rights. She travelled to Europe speaking about lynching and women’s rights. She wrote an expose on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago because it did not reflect African American life. She wrote investigative reports for the Chicago Defender and helped fight for worker’s rights for African American workers.
She loved her children and her husband, Ferdinand Lee Barnett. She spent a lot of time trying to balance her work life of traveling and speaking with raising her children. She died March 25, 1931.
Finally, we are reminded in Hebrews 12:1 to run our races with perseverance. We will win. We will be victorious. Ida B Wells did not give up the fight. She had to change locations, but she kept on fighting. We won because of her.
In this adventure thriller, Connections, Sandy and her best friend found missing relatives, spied on cheating spouses and caught a few bail jumpers. This private investigator never imagined the bad guys would chase her. Running for her life, Sandy Herrick discovered that God was the only one with her who wasn’t talking smack, trying to kill her or get into her pants. As she and her friends try to figure out who framed them, they all discover that there was more to each other than they thought they knew. As evil forces closed in on them, they have to determine who they trust and what they believe about each other. Would this be enough to save them?
Today we are talking about a picture made during the Code Area. That was when there was an organization that strictly monitored the content of movies. Made in 1934 and given the certificate number of 412. Imitation of Life was a Universal Picture. It is remarkable this one was ever made. It was the story of a white woman taking in a black woman and them raising their daughters together facing identity and racial issues.
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