Peace Blog Fans

I know everyone is wondering what is going to happen now that megaupload has been axed. Well all I can say is be patient....

Its very difficult going through these post and updating over 300 hundred links. I do have Lady Cocoa FINALLY available to BP here.

While you are being patient you can please check out a non-blaxploitation mix contributed by one of BP's contributors. If you like it contact him @ wolf4days@yahoo.com.

01 Bad Romance
02 Eyes May Shine
03 Night Of Fear
04 Knock 3 Times On Heaven's Door If You Want Me
05 There They Go
06 Telegram To Mars
07 Video Phone
08 Sidewalk Talk

Enjoy

The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)

Narrated by:

• Andre Braugher

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Chilling & disturbing account of the murder of a 14 year old black boy visiting Mississippi from Chicago. This is a straight-forward no nonsense account that just tells the story the way it happened according to the killers themselves(because of the account they sold to a magazine) and the victims(the entire black race). It's amazing that this story is just now turned into a documentary for the whole world to see when it's obvious that this had a major impact on black society and their outrage that started the civil rights movement. The more it's watched the more disturbing it is which is why I consider this a well done documentary.

Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X (1994)

Starring:

• Peter Bailey
• Roscoe Lee Browne
• John Henrik Clarke
• Louis Farrakhan
• James Fox

phoenixcinema.wordpress
The assassination of Malcolm X occurred in a decade fraught with assassinations of several prominent leaders–John Kennedy 1963, Robert Kennedy 1968, Martin Luther King 1968, and Malcolm X 1965. Three men were arrested for the murder of Malcolm X–Norman 3X Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson, and Talmadge Hayer. Hayer was apprehended at the scene. Witnesses later identified Butler and Johnson, but while Hayer confessed to the murder, he denied the other two men were involved. All three men went to trial, were convicted and served lengthy prison sentences.

Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X, directed by Jefri Aalmuhammed and Jack Baxter explores the murder of this controversial black leader with a brief overview of a difficult life that had taken a number of dramatic twists and turns. Just prior to his death, Malcolm X parted ways from the leader of the Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad. He had converted to orthodox Islam, and he was moving towards Black Nationalism. There were indications that he was forming an alliance in the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King–an alliance that would be “J. Edgar Hoover’s worst nightmare.” Imagine a world in which Malcolm X and King provided strong political leadership for the Black community…And what a tragedy that possibility was stolen.

The film begins with 1993 footage of a ‘closed door’ meeting with the present day leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan preaching to an audience and saying: “Was Malcolm your traitor or was he ours? And if we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the H*ll business is it of yours?” From this point, the film peels back the years and delves into the assassination that took place in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965. Eyewitnesses recall that afternoon–including one of Malcolm X’s bodyguards (who was also an undercover police officer), Gene Roberts. There were no police at the door of the ballroom, and security was unusually lax.

While I could have done without the cheesy reenactments that made me think I was watching the History Channel, the film includes many valuable interviews with Malcolm’s friends, and associates. With author Baba Zak A. Kondo (Unraveling the Assassination of Malcolm X) providing extensive analysis, the film unravels a web that includes the now declassified memos and documents from the FBI along with documents from the NYC police department, and a fake, inflammatory letter sent to Elijah Mohammad. FBI documents reveal a perceived need to “prevent the rise of a messiah who could unify and electrify the Black Nationalist movement.” Furthermore, according to the FBI, Malcolm X might be “viewed as such a Messiah.” Kondo explains how counterintelligence (think COINTELPRO) effectively “neutralizes” with methods that “discredit, disrupt and destroy.” Under circumstances such as this–existing resentment, distrust and hate fueled by counterintelligence provocation–the film argues that a potentially bad situation became explosive. With the FBI “exploit[ing] existing weaknesses” the film argues, Malcolm X’s fate–and by extension the fate of the Black Nationalist movement–were effectively sealed. The “Divide and Conquer” strategy is one that was applied and worked so well in destroying the Black Panthers. The claim that the FBI provoked others into murdering Malcolm X–is by its very nature–impossible to prove. Human motivation is complex and difficult to analyze, and this is what makes the film so intriguing and thought-provoking. Watch it and decide for yourself.

Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)

Starring:

• Joy Bang
• Marlene Clark
• Roger Garrett

BlackHorrorMovies.com
Black Horror Hall of Famer Marlene Clark is one mysterious figure. There's strangely little information on her to be found on the Internet beyond the fact that she's an ex-model who was once married to Billy Dee Williams (and who presumably to this day can't get the taste of Colt 45 out of her mouth). One thing that seems clear from her body of work, though, is that she has a fondness for: A) the Philippines and B) snakes. Amidst some success as a blaxploitation actress in films like Slaughter and Ganja and Hess, as well as integrated work in The Beast Must Die, Switchblade Sisters, and even a recurring role on "Sanford and Son", she starred as the magical baddie in a pair of serpent-themed Philippine horror movies: Black Mamba and Night of the Cobra Woman. Both are slow-paced English-language films focusing on rural mythology, and both insist that Clark is evil, evil, EVIL. I don't know what it was about her that screamed "Satan spawn" to Filipinos -- perhaps her dark skin was exotic enough to be frightening -- but her naturally pleasant looks and kindly, classy demeanor don't translate to such on screen in either film. Thus, for the sake of Night of the Cobra Woman's watchability, it's a good thing she gets nekkid.......read more.

Hickey and Boggs (1972)

Starring:

• Bill Cosby
• Robert Culp
• Ta-Ronce Allen
• Rosalind Cash

IMDB.com
Unknown or forgotten, and never released on video, this unexpectedly gritty film from Robert Culp (who also directed) and Bill Cosby is light years away from their popular I Spy series. As two low-end private eyes, neither has ever been more effective on screen before. An interesting, atypical contrast of styles in their acting; Cosby plays it humorless, (in a realistic, lived-in fashion, not a tough guy caricature) while Culp is alternates several nice modes for his character.

The earliest directorial effort from Walter Hill stands among the best of his career (it would make a fine double bill with his classic THE DRIVER), and also among the best of the rich era of 1970's crime dramas. It was released by United Artists and the rights-holders would do us a favor to release it for sale. It has some class-A action scenes and two terrific central performances. Hopefully will soon see the light of day again and gain some of the reputation it so deserves.

Black Mamba (1974)

Starring:

• John Ashley
• Marlene Clark
• Pilar Pilapil

BlackHorror.com
Compared to Night of the Cobra Woman, Black Mamba suffers the double whammy of being less serpent-centric and less booby-centric, making for the dullest movie I've seen featuring zombies, voodoo dolls, a hunchback, Satan, "Manimal"-like transmutations, bestiality, an exorcism, and Death itself. The film opens with a hunchback doing what hunchbacks do best: robbing graves. He messes with the wrong tomb, though, when he takes a ring from the corpse of Dante, a man who happens to have once romanced a witch (Clark). Quasimod'oh! ......read more

Sister, Sister (1982)

Starring:

• Diahann Carroll
• Rosalind Cash
• Irene Cara
• Paul Winfield

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Maya Angelou's story of the family stresses that occur when an older sister (Diahann Carroll) attempts to maintain a home, left by her revered father, in an ultra-moralistic way (regardless of the fact that she is secretly having an affair with the married preacher). Nevertheless, her uptight need to maintain a sense of propriety of course goes against the wishes of her much younger sister (Irene Cara) who, as an accomplished ice skater, is striving for her own independence. And if this isn't enough, into it is suddenly thrust a third sister (Rosalind Cash), who is a single mother with a pre-teen son, who "comes home" with her boy after living for years in the ghettos of Detroit. And because she is the complete antithesis of her older sister in morals and deportment, she immediately sides with her younger sister against the strictures set down in the home.