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World Channel held a screening of Two Dollars and a Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker. It is a documentary on the life of Madame C. J Walker by Stanley Nelson. A conversation with filmmaker Stanley Nelson and author A’leia Bundles was held before the screening.
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A’Leila Bundles compares the dramatization of her great great grandmother’s life in Self Made with the story revealed in the 1989 documentary Two Dollars and A Dream, and speaks to her family’s legacy of philanthropy and of caring for the the Walker Company’s employees, most of whom were independent Black women.
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Although she notes “That was the first, and it wasn’t going to be the last, unfortunately,” the film – also unfortunately – doesn’t delve too deeply into pesky issues like Davis’ violence toward women. (His other two wives, singer Betty Mabry and actor Cicely Tyson, are both still living but aren’t interviewed.)
Read moreBlind, Eskil Vogt’s fascinating first feature, focuses on Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), who recently lost her sight and stays at
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Opening September 2, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson’s fascinating documentary looking at the rise, prevailing influence and eventual demise of the the Black Panthers, a group at the heart of the civil rights movement in America. The footage of demonstrations and interviews with noted Black Panther leaders, and revelations about the government’s efforts to infiltrate and derail its program are enlightening.
Read moreTime moves on, and people forget. But let’s not forget the Freedom Riders who challenged racial segregation in America’s Deep
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