Today we will talk about how in 1976 the South African government declared a state of emergency.  For 13 years the children of South African resisted. Often referred to as the Soweto Uprising, a musical was written called Sarafina.

It tells the story of how thousands of children were beaten and tortured. 8,000 children were in prison. This story is about South African teenagers fought against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

We first saw this story on Broadway. I remember because at the end there was a song Free Nelson Mandela. I can’t put into words what that experience was like, but WOW.

Beyond entertaining, the message of this movie moved me. Nelson Mandela has become one of my favorite people in life.

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Today we will talk about how in 1976 the South African government declared a state of emergency.  For 13 years the children of South African resisted. Often referred to as the Soweto Uprising, a musical was written called Sarafina.

It tells the story of how thousands of children were beaten and tortured. 8,000 children were in prison. This story is about South African teenagers fought against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

We first saw this story on Broadway. I remember because at the end there was a song Free Nelson Mandela. I can’t put into words what that experience was like, but WOW.

Beyond entertaining, the message of this movie moved me. Nelson Mandela has become one of my favorite people in life.

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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.

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Black Panther

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.

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Imitation of Life

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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