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Consuming: José James

02/07/10

I recently stumbled upon José James during one of my web-based procrastination periods. But it was worth it. He earns my dope rating.

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Soul. It's considered by most to be a weighty word. It's used to describe a variety of people, places, and things and even the most intangible of ideas. Soul has implications of every kind, from food to the spiritual, but perhaps none are greater than it being used to define an era and a genre of music.

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Happy Anniversary to The Black Book!

11/26/09

Thirty-five years ago, Toni Morrison, then an editor at Random House, joined with a team of black memorabilia collectors, helmed by Middleton A. Harris, to assemble what Henry Louis Gates Jr. considers the "ultimate treasure chest of the black experience." The result is a collection of more than 500 documents, photographs and articles that fashion an imaginative narrative of the African-American journey from slavery to the civil rights movement. There are slave sale receipts, patents by African-American inventors, sheet music for "coon songs," images of black war heroes and everything in between.

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Producing Precious

11/26/09

Precious was a very political and personal film for me to make. It was political because so many of the issues, from literacy to overall neglect and sexual abuse are so prevalent in the film but not talked about or addressed actively as they should be. The film has provided a tremendous forum for healing and discussion.

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