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Viola Ford Fletcher — known to the world as Mother Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and one of the most powerful living witnesses to America’s suppressed history. Born in 1914, she was only seven years old when mobs burned the prosperous Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, destroying her family’s home, livelihood, and sense of safety in a single night. For nearly a century she carried those memories quietly, but with unshakable clarity the screams, the smoke, the terror in the streets, the planes overhead. When she finally testified before Congress at age 107, her words cut through the nation’s conscience and reignited a global demand for justice and reparations.
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Pompano Beach Arts is excited to present South Florida favorite the ReaXtion Band for another superb Soulful Sunday’s concert! Performing the best in classic top 40, disco, funk, old school, R&B and Motown, the band will take the stage at Ali Cultural Arts Center on Sunday, August 13, 2023, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10, available at www.pompanobeacharts.org Space is limited. No tickets are sold at the door. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.
Nubian artistic excellence is the calling card for Gordon Parks. In 1969 he became the first Black person to write and direct a major Hollywood studio feature film, “The Learning Tree,” based on his best selling novel. Two years later he continued breaking new cinematic directorial ground with the 1971 movie “Shaft.” That movie was not only a hit, but it had wide critical acclaim. That movie is recognized as the vanguard movie for “Blaxploitation” cinema of that era. Academic racism was why Mr. Parks’ work was never compared to his White peers, like Spielberg, Hitchcock and Scorsese. If academicians had compared them, they would find a resume that overshadowed those premiere directors.
Another song “You Know It Ain’t Right” by Joe Hinton was released in 1963. Many listeners thought Hinton was singing about a lost love (The B-side was “Lovesick Blues”), but a closer listening of the lyrics reveals a sound more like a protest song – perhaps a precursor to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”.
Disney’s live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4,320 screens in North America, according to studio estimates on May 28.
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