Film(s) Monitored:  Dreamgirls

TOPICS :  Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Holliday, and Dreamgirls; live 1982 Tony Award performance by Jennifer Holliday (And I Am Telling You); Kwanzaa holiday celebration; Nina Simone, including video (To Be Young, Gifted and Black); James Brown homegoing; Marvin Gaye video footage; Michael Jackson  video with reference to the word "kike" that was removed by record label (They Don't Care About Us); Malcolm X video footage; Ward Connerly; Jimmy Carter book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid); David Duke and Wolf Blitzer; the American Israel Public Affairs Committe (AIPAC); and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Blood Diamond; The Pursuit of Happyness

TOPICS :  History of diamond; Diamonds/Africa; Herero people; Davey D article on Russell Simmons and diamonds; Anthony T. Browder (Egypt on the Potomac tour, Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization book); Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy African Club; racism tests - Implicit Association Test and Institute for Interracial Harmony; the United Voices for a Common Cause (UVCC) organization; John Ridley and Esquire magazine article on the N-word; Gayle King on the N-word; Richard Pryor's 1982 NPR audio on why he stopped using the N-word; Michael "Kramer" Richards and his questionable religion; Jimmy Carter book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid); Judaism, Orthodox Jewry, Zionism, and the Neturei Karta International; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Stranger Than Fiction; Casino Royale; Let's Go to Prison; Deja Vu; Bobby

TOPIC:  Video links: Don't Use the N-Word, the Educator and the N-Word,  Michael "Kramer" Richards, A Girl Like Me, Terrorism in America; African Diaspora Film Festival; Tribute to Black Women Web site; essays on the real history of Thanksgiving; Trent Lott's return to leadership position after Strom Thurmond segregationist thinking endorsement in December 2002; anti-semitism PSAs by Russell Simmons and Jay-Z; Jewish Hegemony in the Music World; Jewish Success in the American Media; Who Rules America?; Tony Martin, Wellesley College, and the Jewish Onslaught; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Catch A Fire

TOPICS :  Karl Rove, dirty tactics, and family secrets; Ted Haggard and men of the cloth on the down low; Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice Report; Principal Baruti Kafele and empowerment; Paul Porter of Industry Ears; more on the University of Minnesota's mysterious Whiteness Survey; University of Texas Law School, Minutemen, the anti-immigration movement, and White supremacy; Africans better off as slaves according to psychologist; China continues its strategy of muscling in on Africa; United Federation of Teachers (UFT), Blacks/Jews, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis in Brooklyn of May 1968; Black Gold film and coffee beans; Color of the Cross film and a Black Jesus Christ; Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers film about Iwo Jima and there are no Black soldiers and the sole heroes are Whites; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Gridiron Gang; The Last King of Scotland

TOPICS :  Terrorism in America video; A Girl Like Me video; male student college tour workshop; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence program; electronic voting; Whiteness Survey by the University of Minnesota; Prussian Blue - White supremacist teenage hate music group; satire on the Ku Klux Klan and rap artists; Africa - Congo/Darfur/Rwanda; Africa and the China invasion; Black Commentator; Black Electorate; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT); New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC); Bergen Performing Arts Center (BergenPAC); Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC); Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments on the Muslim religion; the church and Jewish ideology; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Snakes on a Plane; Idlewild; Crossover

TOPICS :  Kemet (Egypt) trip; Molefi Asante; annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference; Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) 24th annual Ancient Kemetic Conference in Aswan; A Girl Like Me video; Spike Lee; Tracey Edmonds and BET; August Wilson plays in New York City; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Shadowboxer; Miami Vice

TOPICS :  Everythings Turning Into Beautiful (Off Broadway); Black Owned Beauty Supply Associaton (BOBSA); White male on "race"; the real Noam Chomsky?; America and Israel violence; and more...