[Pen-l] Black is...Black ain't; Adam Clayton Powell

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

In conjunction with Black History Month, Docuramafilms, a distribution 
company that specializes in cutting-edge movies, sent me  a couple of 
first-rate documentaries that are available from Netflix. The first was 
Marlon Riggs’s “Black Is…Black Ain’t”, an examination of the 
contradictions of Black identity that first aired on PBS in the late 
1990s. As a gay African-American, Riggs was particularly attuned to 
homophobia in the Black community. He died of AIDS in 1994 and the film 
was completed by his supporters. The second is “Adam Clayton Powell”, an 
absolutely stunning portrait of the U.S.’s most powerful Black 
politician from the 1930s to his death of cancer in 1972. Seen together, 
these films help us understand the complexities of Black identity and 
politics.

full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/black-isblack-aint-adam-clayton-powell/
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