Slog - Comments on African American Film Fest Thru This Sunday http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/african_american_film_fes Three cheers for the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (at 17th and Yesler) which is putting on its Third Annual African American Film festival this week, through Sunday. Three cheers because last night, they screened The Untold Story of Emmett Till, and had the filmmaker, Keith Beauchamp, there for a Q&A. I've been dying to see the movie since it caused a stir two years ago after forcing the feds to reopen the Till case. And it was worth it. The film, particularly Beauchamp's modern interviews with Till's super-hero-powers mother, is chilling. If you don't know the Emmett Till story,... Copyright 2007 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:47:46 -0800 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:10:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jake Thanks for the into Josh. God, the sheer courage of that historical movement for radical change.

Modern Northern whities have no real idea of the danger of that era for Black folks.

]]> Jake http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/african_american_film_fes#c127008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/african_american_film_fes#c127008 Arts Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:10:15 -0800