Film(s) Monitored: The Longshots; Death Race; Traitor; Babylon AD; The Family That Preys; The Women; Lakeview Terrace
TOPICS: N-Word usage in last film for Bernie Mac/Isaac Hayes (Soul Men); Fela! A New Musical (Off Broadway); Documentaries: FLOW (For Love of Water), Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio, Banished; Zeitgeist - religion, 9/11, and the Federal Reserve system (privately owned bankers); NAACP's newest and youngest President/CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous; NAACP Upload to Uplift voter registration initiative; voter suppression tactics (including on foreclosed homeowners); Tim Wise on White Privilege; Alvin Ailey dancer Abdur-Rahim Jackson detained at Israeli airport/forced to dance for release; Free Gaza organization, Israeli apartheid/occupation, and difficulty in getting hearing aids to kids; and more...