"Jackson Not Just a Name" Screening @ Jazz and Blues Museum 2016 Nov 12th

Jackson Not Just a Name Film Gathering in Leimert Park 

Kim Morris and Harold Welton

Kim is Al Prentice "Bunchy" Carters Nice

Members of the JJEC and The Avalon Gardens Proud-jects

A Film Documentary (Please View Trailer)

Published on Aug 17th, 2015

It was in this climate, that a small group of young freedom Fighter 

former students of Fremont High School

and East Los Angeles College joined forces.

These revolutionary youth organized with the 

Black Student Union,

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

and the Black Panther Party 

"The Proud-jects"

Beverly Freeman And Jerome Katon - Beverly is the wife of the late Roland Freeman R.I.P.

Torrence Brandon Reese and Kim Morris

Torrence is The Founder of The I've Know Rivers Festival-

Harold Welton 

Ruchell Magee, George Jackson - Drawing by Kiilu Nyasha

Catch The Tiger- A play about Marcus Garvey Movement!

Africa For The African

Marcus Garvey

"One God. One Aim. One Destiny."

 

 

Interview with Playwright Melvin Ishmael Johnson

Contact: Melvin Johnson <dramastage1@yahoo.com>

The preeminent African American leader in the 1920's of the first African American mass movement in the US. His credo -- Blacks should support their own institutions and businesses. He tried to internationalize the Black diaspora: "One God. One Aim. One Destiny."

Experience the drama of Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey as a young J. Edgar Hoover attempts to bring him and his movement down through an infamous counter-intelligence program eventually named COINTELPRO.
The play features several African Artists Association members and friends’

Catch the Tiger 
written by Melvin Ishmael Johnson
Directed by Bill White

 

Cast Interviews 

 

 

 

 Dee Dee Stephens & Charlotte Plummer

 Pan Africans 

 

Petal D'Avril & Director Bill White

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles - No Justice - For Family of Redel Jones

 

 

 

Dr. Melina Abdullah

 Lili Bernard & Michael Blaze

General Jeff

Black Lives Matter Too

Evolution of The Revolution with Lynn Rossi & Sherita Herring

Interview with Lynn Rossi of Surreal Box Cinema and Sherita Herring at 

California African American Museum in Exposition Park.

Evolution of the Revolution is an immersive, multi-media installation created by Surreal Box Cinema, an artistic duo formed by Lynn Rossi (photographer/set designer) and Nichelle Evans (set designer/conceptual artist). Evolution of the Revolution presents a surreal photographic journey that explores the African American revolutionary path, from the Trans-Atlantic Middle Passage to the present day political arena, including pivotal moments such as the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement. Exhibit runs from now until June 23re 2016

Eartha's Kit @ MOments Playhouse in Los Angeles with Ashlee Olivia Jones

Ashlee Olivia Jones Closing Night of  Eartha's Kit Performance

Ashlee Olivia Jones

Eartha's Kit by Ashlee Olivia Jones

Ashlee Olivia Jones as Eartha Kitt

Moments Playhouse 665 Heliotrope, Los Angeles, CA 90014

Eartha's Kit Trailer by Blaze

December 18, 19, 20 and 25, 26, 27

Friday and Saturday 8pm and

3pm and 6pm Sunday

Staring Ashlee Olivia Jones

Eartha's Kitt's Daughter Kitt Shapiro

 A Mother's Love

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Legacy of Torture: (Excerpts) with former Black Panther Hank Jones

Echoes of Blackness

Skid Row Studios Pod-Cast pm on Tunes

The Black Panthers and the Fight for Civil Rights: Henry Hank Jones has been an activist since the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 

Legacy of Torture:

The War Against The Black Liberation Movement

In 2005 several former members of the Black Panther were held in contempt and jailed for refusing to testify before a San Francisco Grand Jury investigating a police shooting that took place in 1971. The two lead San Francisco Police Department investigators from over 30 years ago, along with FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of the law and the Constitution, five men chose to stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. They were released when the Grand Jury term expired, but have been told by prosecutors that ‘it isn’t over yet.’’
http://www.freedomarchives.org/BPP/Roxie_reviews.html

Hank Jones & Michael Blaze

The Black Panthers @ ArtshareLA 2014

echoesofblackness@outlook.com