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Jazz piano is so glutted with talent these days that it's hard to get through a week without another new prodigy popping up somewhere. With flying-fingered young virtuosos like Marcus Roberts, Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Reed trying to outdo one another on showy new solo albums and jostling for attention in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Greenwich Village, competition on the keyboards is more intense than it has been in years. In the midst of all this musical gunslinging, it would be easy to overlook Jacky Terrasson, a newcomer from Paris. But that would be a mistake...
...Copley, you'll find the grand departmentstores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
West said America lost its chance to do justiceduring the Reconstruction and cited W.E.B. DuBoisand Marcus Garvey as examples of Blacks attemptsto escape exploitation...
Mario Van Peebles demurs: "The kids don't see this movie as a call to arms but as a call to consciousness." In this Molotov cocktail of fact and fancy, the party's founders, Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance), are two streetwise dreamers from Oakland, California, who live their slogan: "Power to the People." They arm themselves and talk instructive trash to the pig cops-but within the letter of the law. They also serve food to kids and educate them in Afro awareness...
...King Jr. speaks, and is silenced by a shot. Malcolm X surfaces with his declaration, "We are nonviolent with anyone who is nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us." He, too, is silenced by a shot. In this climate, Huey Newton (Marcus Chong) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance) found the Black Panther Party for Self Defense...