I curated this with my late friend @duanemyers.bsky.social in mind. We shared a lifelong, eclectic love of music. I thought of him with a smile as I crafted this singular and relatively short collection of tracks
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Happy Thanksgiving, y’all 🍂
My favorite sign at the Glendale NO KINGS protest. #nokings #nokingsprotest
Before our screening of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. It is showing at the Vista Theater, in existence since 1923. It’s one of 4 theaters in the world projecting it in VistaVision on “platters”. It Is the first film to do so since 1961.
Right?!
Ready to take doors at any season
Hard to find new old photos of Halloween costumes, or ones that aren’t altered or prompted, but here we go again…
Thanks!!
Who. Is. This. Brotha?
Here's my latest sonic offering for Good Black News. A collection of "Dance Jazz" to make you move. Rare Groozes, Remixes, Hip-hop collabs, and other funky Jazz explorations to start your week.
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I approve 🙏🏾🖤
Jackie and Joan of the Runaways
The best “Florida man” headline ever!!
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Based on the unbelievably true life stories of these three women, Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer help to bring this story to the big screen — which definitely qualifies as some Black Girl Magic.
My sparse drawing of Emmett Till on the anniversary of his murder in 1955.
Toshiro Mifune & Akira Kurosawa behind the scenes of 'Yojimbo' - 1961
Writer, critic, and photographer Carl Van Vechten was best known for his association with the Harlem Renaissance. Here are a few color photos of artists he took that would garner success on the small and/or big screen.
James Earl Jones
Eartha Kitt
Diahann Carroll
Harry Belafonte
August 24, 1931: Filming begins on “Frankenstein” with the cemetery scene.
150 years of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, overlooked icon of Black classical music
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The One👌🏾
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#jaws #behindthescenes🎬 #filmmaking #robertshaw 1975
50 year anniversary 🤯🤯🤯
The thing in the crypt! Conan encounters a skeleton, seated on a throne w/ a sword across its lap.
Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, and Ernie Chan - interior splashin’ in Conan the Barbarian 92 (1978).
Another MUSIC MONDAY offering via @goodblacknews.bsky.social
Enjoy my free-wheeling collection of Soul Duets. #musicmonday #duets
Thanks, @duanemyers.bsky.social
Thanks, my dear brotha
Christopher Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Cushing having a laugh.