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Friday, June 17, 2011

Bone (1972)




































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Welcome to Beverly Hills, where upper class married couples like Bill and Bernadette (Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten) enjoy their happy life of wealth and privilege. But when a violently unstable black criminal (Yaphet Kotto) invades their home, each will be forced to explore their own nightmares of lies and desire where every perverse secret is exposed and nothing is ever really black and white.

Black Samson (1974)



























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Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies. 

Monday, February 7, 2011

Blacque Sistory

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This is appropriate not just for the month, but to teach a lesson of education and entertainment internationally. I wrote a poem some years ago inspired by a dream where in this club were legendary figures of the past and I was in the place marveling at the marvelous relevance. Years later, 250 Black women rounded out this fictional interpretation and each time performing I would think "It would be fire to have moving images projected behind me as I recited this". The video here was a struggle to complete but a template for a larger vision in the future had to begin from a foundation. Nevertheless and without excuse, I present to our Blaxploitation Pride community..............

"Blacque Sistory"