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Am I Black Enough For You
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Black is Beautiful /Black Don’t Crack / The Blacker the Berry the Sweeter the Juice / Once you go Black You’ll never go Back/ Black Lives Matter / list created during Black History Month (the shortest month of the year) which will continue to be updated with all things Black; Black Stories, Black Actors, Black Directors, Black Writers, Black Producers, Black on Black, My thoughts so Black, my skin so Black, I’m rockin’ that black, and everything black, I’m so Black on Black on Black-ity, Black, Black, Black. Say it Loud…I’m Black and I’m Proud (https://youtu.be/tQiSz-gD75s )✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 Am I Black Enough For You (https://youtu.be/vdKIwEJTI7A )👊🏿


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TV Show: A Woman Called Moses ( 1978 )
A Woman Called Moses is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
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Movie: A Piece of the Action ( 1978 )
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else.
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TV Show: Tyler Perry's Sistas ( 2019 )
A group of single black women from different walks of life navigate their complicated love life status, careers and friendship through the ups-and-downs of living in a modern world of social media and unrealistic relationship goals.
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Movie: I Can Do Bad All by Myself ( 2009 )
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Movie: Charley-One-Eye ( 1973 )
After killing an officer, a black soldier deserts and heads for the Mexican border. In the wilderness, he encounters a crippled wandering Indian. Initially, the Union soldier forces the Indian to be his man-servant, verbally abusing and threatening him with a big knife, occasionally mocking the Indian for his handicap. Later, an uneasy alliance forms between the two men as they travel south. They eventually find decent shelter and a water-well at an old abandoned Spanish church. They also find the dead bodies of a prospector and his mule. They scavenge the belongings of the deceased prospector and end-up with a crate of live chickens, a few firearms, ammunition, food, jugs of moonshine, clothing and other items. The next few days are relatively enjoyable, as the two unlikely friends cement their partnership, eat fried chicken and drink booze. The soldier even offers a revolver to the Indian, as a gift. Among the live chickens there is one bird that only has one-eye. The Indian adopts it as his pet, feeding it grain, vowing to never eat the chicken and calling it Charley One Eye. As they pass the days, the two men are unaware that a brutal and vicious bounty-hunter is after the deserting soldier in order to cash a 500 dollar bounty for his capture and return to the army fort. Also, gangs of murderous Mexican bandits roam the region. Eventually, things come to a dramatic and violent end.
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Movie: A Lesson Before Dying ( 1999 )
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince the schoolteacher to go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
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Movie: Penitentiary II ( 1982 )
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
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Movie: Killer of Sheep ( 1978 )
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
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Movie: Get on the Bus ( 1996 )
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
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Movie: Blacula ( 1972 )
An 18th century African statesman is transformed into a vampire, cursed with the name Blacula, and entombed in Dracula's Castle after he fails to convince the Count to support him in his cause to end the slave trade. Two hundred years later, a pair of interior decorators transport his coffin to L.A. where he awakes with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. As Blacula pursues a woman who resembles his long dead wife, her brother-in-law, a pathologist, investigates the string of carnage that follows in the vampire's wake.
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Movie: Hickey & Boggs ( 1972 )
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
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Movie: Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic ( 2013 )
The life and times of Richard Pryor.
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Movie: Come Back Charleston Blue ( 1973 )
Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
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Movie: Surviving America ( 2020 )
In the wake of the new Civil Rights Movement it is important to tell Black stories from those who actually live it. Shoot first and ask questions later, lynchings, redlining, policing of hair, food deserts, underfunded schools are just a day in the life struggle of being Black in America.
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TV Show: Rise Up, Sing Out ( 2022 )
Animated, music-based shorts provide an inspiring and empowering message about race, culture and community, celebrate differences, and provide a framework for conversation.
 
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Movie: Booker ( 1984 )
Set in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled through slavery to found the Tuskegee Institute. Through the eyes of nine-year-old Booker T. Washington, viewers witness the end of the Civil War, the cruelties that endured after slavery was abolished, and the hard work that led Booker to education and true freedom. Booker is a one-hour drama based on the childhood of Booker T. Washington and his quest for education in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Booker was shown nationally on PBS by the series, WONDERWORKS and subsequently on the Disney Channel, the BBC, and throughout the world. Booker continues to be broadcast and used in thousands of schools in America and abroad. The film was chosen as among the top 10 best home video release for children by Parenting Magazine and best script for a children's drama by the Writer's Guild of America.
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Movie: Across 110th Street ( 1973 )
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
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Movie: Jason's Lyric ( 1994 )
The story of a young man, Jason (Allen Payne) who must confront his trauma-induced insecurity about love, as well as a sense of owed responsibility to his mother and troubled brother Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine). Jason, an assistant manager and sales clerk at an electronics store, falls in love with Lyric (Jada Pinkett Smith) and finds happiness, but his family history and mentally ill war veteran father, Maddog (Forest Whitaker) plague his life's plans before he can leave it all for a better life.
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Movie: Selma, Lord, Selma ( 1999 )
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when ...
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Movie: Roots of Good Men ( 2018 )
"Roots of Good Men" is a story about life, love, letting go, and living. A single mistake can change a man's life - Or possibly end it.
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Movie: Funny Valentines ( 1999 )
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
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Movie: Blackenstein ( 1973 )
Eddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.
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Movie: Two Wolves ( 2018 )
Two wolves is an urban thriller drama that builds on the story of Special Agent Artemis in a world of secrets, mystery and intrigue. As a child, Artemis watched his family get torn apart.
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Movie: Beaches ( 2017 )
The friendship between two women from childhood onwards.
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Movie: The Monkey Hu$tle ( 1976 )
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
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Movie: Three the Hard Way ( 1974 )
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
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Movie: Melinda ( 1972 )
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
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Movie: Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI ( 1986 )
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
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Movie: Mahogany ( 1976 )
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
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Movie: Five on the Black Hand Side ( 1973 )
In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
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Movie: The Big Score ( 1983 )
A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer.
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Movie: Hurry Sundown ( 1967 )
Following World War II, a northern cannery negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land 's owned by Julie Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain 2 smaller plots; one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood nammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve's interested in selling, and they form a partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal,
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Movie: Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le ( 2016 )
The story of R&B artist Michel'le, who rose to fame in the late 1980s when she signed on to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records.
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Movie: Native Son ( 1951 )
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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Movie: Force: Five ( 1981 )
A martial-arts expert leads a team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator's daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a fanatical religious cult.
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Movie: Chocolat ( 2016 )
The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.
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Movie: The Brothers ( 2001 )
Four friends begin to question women and relationships when one of them announces impending nuptials.
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TV Show: Bigger ( 2019 )
Set in the East Atlanta neighborhood of Little Five Points, the series follows a single black woman who is dealing with the threat of marriage to a boring-in-bed boyfriend and the sudden, random death of a college acquaintance. The tragedy drives her ambitious group of friends to take a deeper look at their stagnant lives, asking themselves: Is there something bigger and better in life?
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Movie: The Hitter ( 1983 )
An ex-professional boxer (O'Neal) tries to make a new start when teaming up with a fast talking but ageing hoodlum (Ceaser) and an ex-call girl (Frazier) but soon get more than they bargained for when crossing an adversary from their past.
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TV Show: Mary Mary ( 2012 )
Talk about a sister act! As the popular three-time Grammy(R) award-winning Gospel duo, "Mary Mary," Erica and Tina Campbell are busy career women touring the country, promoting their sixth album, "Something Big" and walking Hollywood red carpets. More than that, they're sisters and mothers who strive to balance hectic careers with growing families. Now, WE tv has greenlit a brand-new original series, tentatively titled MARY MARY, that follows the sisters in their daily lives as they work to do it all.
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Movie: Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day ( 2012 )
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
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Movie: Don't Play Us Cheap ( 1972 )
Film version of Melvin Van Peebles' Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up. But somehow, their attempts to ruin the party fail.
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TV Show: The Temptations ( 1998 )
They were the band who were Motown's biggest success story. 'The Temptations' became platinum-selling singers, but the combination of arrogance, cocaine addiction and broken relationships brought them down. The true story behind the legendary Motown musical sensation is brought to life in this touching miniseries.
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Movie: Carmen Jones ( 1954 )
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
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Movie: Just an Old Sweet Song ( 1976 )
A black family from Detroit takes a two-week vacation in the South. The trip changes their lives.