Property Is Not More Valuable Than Black Lives

Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿‍♂️

— The LeBron James of Pig Feet. (@GeeDee215) May 28, 2020

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This is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer talking about the history of racial terror lynchings of Black people and how some Black people responded, specifically protesting, looting, and rioting. This is from a documentary, “Heritage Of Slavery” (1968). pic.twitter.com/xelste3pPW

— The Funky Educator (@MrKinetik) May 28, 2020

They. Know. What. They've. Done. To. Us. https://t.co/MF87kbTeLN

— king crissle (@crissles) May 29, 2020

January 2015

Looking for a document and stumbled across these beauties from a happier time in the White House. I wasn’t supposed to be taking pictures all up in there. But how could I resist? It was just too wonderful. Private screening of SELMA. January 2015. pic.twitter.com/xBZ0PO5xwf

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) September 8, 2019

POTUS: Helping People Find Their Voice

Netflix And Obama

.@BarackObama and @MichelleObama have announced their first slate of seven @Netflix film and TV projects, including a #FrederickDouglass biopic and a post-WWII fashion drama series. More details here: https://t.co/0KAdGsHM6U. pic.twitter.com/YpHJzt6S6f

— Shadow and Act (@shadowandact) April 30, 2019

‘Cesar Chavez’ Comes To The White House

President Barack Obama speaks at the screening of the film ‘Cesar Chavez’, in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The movie biopic is directed by Diego Luna about the Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez

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President Barack Obama hugs Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Deputy Director of Public Engagement (Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter), as he arrives at a screening of the film “Cesar Chavez”

Actors Diego Luna and Rosario Dawson speak after President Barack Obama made remarks at a screening of the film “Cesar Chavez” at the White House

Actress America Ferrera attends a screening of the film “Cesar Chavez” in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

First Lady Michelle Obama Says: Drink Up!

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Michelle Obama to Host Lifetime's 'Trip to Bountiful' Screening http://t.co/DUe1csXVaD

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 20, 2014

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The Hollywood Reporter: Michelle Obama To Host Lifetime’s ‘Trip To Bountiful’ Screening

Officials announced Thursday that the First Lady Michelle Obama will host the special event on Monday, Feb. 24, at 4 p.m. ET, in the Eisenhower Office Building’s South Court Auditorium. The Eisenhower Office Building houses adjoins the White House’s West Wing and provides office space for most of the executive mansion’s staff. Obama will deliver personal remarks at the screening for the TV adaptation of the Broadway revival of Horton Foote‘s play. The Trip to Bountiful, which premieres Saturday, March 8, on the cabler, is set during the final years of the Jim Crow South. The Broadway production was nominated for four Tony Awards, winning best actress in a play for Cicely Tyson.

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First Lady Michelle Obama is escorted by Rose Cameron, CEO and founder of WAT-AAH!, a line of bottled water targeted to kids and teens, as they view the “Taking Back the Streets” art exhibit at the New Museum, in New York

First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Sophia Rose Stewart-Chapman, of New York’s Little Red School House, in front of a color-by-numbers mural featuring the slogan for WAT-AAH!

Artist Trey Speegle, photographs First Lady Michelle Obama as she prepares to autograph his color-by-numbers mural featuring the slogan for WAT-AAH!, a line of bottled water targeted to kids and teens, at the New Museum, in New York

First Lady Michelle Obama meets Lola Picayo, of New York’s Little Red School House, before she autographed a color-by-numbers mural featuring the slogan for WAT-AAH!

First Lady Michelle Obama hugs teacher Sara Barlow of Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School

First Lady Michelle Obama stands with artist Trey Speegle the 8th grade children of Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School when she visits the New Museum’s “Taking Back the Streets” exhibit, sponsored by Let Water Be Water LLC’s youth bottled water brand WAT-AAH! to support the Partnership for a Healthier America’s “Drink Up” initiative in New York City

Early Bird Chat

President Barack Obama talks with Nelson Manela’s daughters Zindzi and Zenani Mandela prior to a screening of “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” in the White House Family Theater, Nov. 7, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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MoooOOOooorning – Happy Friday!

Afternoon Delight: Movie Villains

The GREATEST movie villain of all time. I saw Hannibal Lecter when I was younger; don’t think I slept for a whole week. Anthony Hopkins?! Wow!

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Heath Ledger’s Joker was brilliant. BRILLIANT. Jack Nicholson didn’t do The Joker justice. The Joker is not supposed to be silly. He’s evil. There’s nothing good about The Joker. Heath Ledger became The Joker and scared the living crap out of everyone because he showed how a conscienceless person can turn a civilized society into savages in the blink of an eye.

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Tell us yours.

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Night Owls: Memorable Movie Scenes

We’re doing something a little bit different tonight. I’ll tell you some of the movie scenes I found pretty awesome in their overtness or subtlety; you tell me yours. Capisce? 😀

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Afternoon Delight: Movie Theme Songs

Up Where We Belong from An Officer and A Gentleman

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It’s been a crazy week so thanks for this wonderful idea Swbluega and thank you JacquelineOBoomer, CarolMaeWY, and Swbluega for suggesting these movie theme songs. Everyone else, you are hereby ordered to tell or show us your favorite movie theme music. 😀

p.s. JacquelineOBoomer suggesting Shaft? Ma’am, you are one rocking and cool grandma!

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