Film(s) Monitored:  Doubt; Seven Pounds; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

TOPICS:  Barack Obama's change.gov, transition team, and Cabinet/key staff picks; Gaza massacre; Israeli occupation/settlement; maps and history of Israel/Palestine conflict; Zionism - Malcolm X, Benjamin Freedman, Theodor Herzl, Balfour Declaration, and the taking of Palestine; New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, and media bias; Cynthia McKinney, Gaza, and 1967 Israeli attack of the USS Liberty; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Soul Men; Quantum of Solace; Cadillac Records

TOPICS:  President-elect Barack Hussein Obama; Obama's upcoming global issues (Middle East and Africa) - Occupation 101, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land, AFRICOM; John Henrik Clarke's "A Great and Mighty Walk" narrated by Wesley Snipes; 16th annual African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF) in New York City; The Great Harlem Debate (The Obama Election, Was It Good For Black People); William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and the Weather Underground; Lil Wayne's eight Grammy nominations for N-word usage and misogynistic lyrics in his "Tha Carter III" album; Robert Downey Jr. Golden Globe nomination for blackface performance in "Tropic Thunder" film; Davey D on Busta Rhymes' apology for song about Arab money (but what about to Black women) and the Sean "Diddy" Combs and Clive Davis interaction on the word Hebrew; PETA, Agriprocessors, and The Fall of the House of Rubashkin (worker/animal abuse and the kosher deception); and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Miracle at St. Anna; The Express; The Secret Life of Bees; W.; High School Musical 3: Senior Year

TOPICS:  Election Information Special; Knowing Your Voting Rights-State By State fact brochure; What Not to Wear on Election Day; Video the Vote; and more...

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...

Film(s) Monitored:  Sex and the City; Get Smart; Wanted; Hancock; Meet Dave; The Dark Knight

TOPICS:   Jasiri X "Hancock" Black superhero analysis; CNN's Black In America special report; American Medical Association's admission and apology of racism and segregation in medicine for more than 100 years; JAMA report on "African American Physicians and Organized Medicine:  1846-1968:  Origins of a Racial Divide"; Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference 20th Anniversary; New Yorker magazine militant/terrorist cover of Barack and Michelle Obama; Cynthia McKinney, Rosa Clemente, and the Green Party; Jesse Jackson (FOX News), Whoopi Goldber/Sherri Shepherd (The View), and the N-word; Barack Obama and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) speech; Sumner Redstone, Shari Redstone, and Viacom (CBS, BET, MTV, Paramount); and more...

BN-W Fourth Year Anniversary

TOPICS:  Scholars John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, John G. Jackson, Joy DeGruy Leary, Adelaide Sanford, Ivan Van Sertima, Chancellor Williams; Sam Greenlee's film - "The Spook Who Sat By The Door"; KemMiou Video; H. Lewis Smith - Black America Under Siege: Without and Within; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Street Kings; Prom Night; Iron Man; Made of Honor; Redbelt

TOPICS:   Iron Man, 9/11, and the World Trade Center; Kemetamorphosis Conference at IKG Cultural Resource Center with Anthony Browder, Marimba Ani, Patricia Newton, and Nuraddan Mannan; Baruti Kafele; New York Police Department (NYPD) Stop & Frisk report and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report on racial discrepancies in marijuana arrests in NYC; Barack Obama, bowling, and the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre in South Carolina; Hillary Clinton, West Virginia, blue-collar hard-working White Americans comment, "screw 'em" comment about working class Whites, Saturday Night Live skit (My Supporters Are Racists); Bill Clinton, insecure and scared White men comment; rape and torture victim Megan Williams of West Virginia; Obama, audio tape of the "bitter" remark, uppity Negro, and elitism; Bill Moyers on Clinton, Obama, Jeremiah Wright, John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham; Outfoxed video on Rupert Murdoch and FOX News; Alice Walker on politics, segregated libraries, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Barak H. Obama Sr. and his July 1965 essay - Problems Facing Our Socialism; Michelle Obama and her 1985 Princeton University thesis on Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community; Barbara Walters, protecting Star Jones, affair with a Black senator, and miscegenation; Israel's 60th anniversary celebration is Palestine's "nakba" - catastrophe; Israel and apartheid; Occupation 101 video; Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land video; Hillary Clinton, obliterating Iran, and Israeli's secret importation of Iranian oil; and more...