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Monday, November 14, 2016

The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974, Broadway Theater)














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Set in Chicago in the early nineteen‐sixties, the story focuses on the push‐pull relationship between an elderly, domineering mother and her aging, repressed and lonely daughter. As the two characters circle each other in their tight little world of bitterness and love, a blind street singer, looking for a woman he had loved years ago, stumbles into their ghetto apartment and precipitates a confrontation between the two women and with themselves.

Heat Wave (1990, TV Movie)





















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On August 11, 1965, a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks years of pent-up frustration within Los Angeles' African American community into a race riot that shocks the United States as it rages out of control for days. In this true story, when the all-white staff of main newspaper in the city, The Los Angeles Times, cannot get into work, a young, Black trainee Robert Richardson writes a series of Pulitzer prize-winning articles covering the riots. But as Richardson witnesses the excessive violence used by the police and national guard, he is torn between the impartiality required of a reporter and his need to rage against injustice.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

The First Breeze of Summer (1976, Broadway Theater)


















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The First Breeze of Summer follows a turbulent time in a working class African-American family, where two unhappy sons come to a head with their stern, overworked father, while the grandmother wistfully recalls her long-lost youthful affairs.