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...made black films for black audiences, so Micheaux did, beginning in 1918; and if his films often showed an actor waiting for him to bark out a stage direction, they satisfied their constituency. Edgar G. Ulmer, the vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny Town, the only all-midget singing western...
...Shabazz reopened the old wounds by charging publicly that Louis Farrakhan had played a role in her husband's death. After her daughter Qubilah faced charges in 1995 for hiring a hit man to kill Farrakhan, her mother apparently decided there had been enough rancor. At Harlem's Apollo Theater, she reconciled with Farrakhan, shaking his hand on stage at a fund-raiser for her daughter's defense. It was Qubilah's son, named for his famous grandfather, who is accused of setting the blaze in Shabazz's Yonkers apartment that left her with third-degree burns over 80 percent...
...great pleasure of having dinner almost nightly for a semester with Professor Ewart Guinier. He was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard. He was an imposing figure, as handsome as he was intelligent. A lawyer and a political activist, he told me stories of the Harlem Renaissance, post-Depression governmental policies and why Harvard could not be trusted. Before the end of his term as chair, he would distribute a booklet he edited entitled "Unfair Harvard," wherein he chronicled the sorry saga of minimal commitment to African-American studies. Harvard's administration should award him with...
DIED. ANN PETRY, 88, African-American novelist who immortalized a grim Harlem street and its human casualties; in Old Saybrook, Conn. In The Street (1946), she shows how the hopes of its Harlem inhabitants were desiccated by a malevolent urban wasteland...
...also said that Minister Conrad Muhammad, "minister of the mosque in Harlem where Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X used to preach," will be in attendance...