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Malcolm X Was Killed Today... Watch Detailed Portrait Doc "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" Now

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February 21, 2012 1:05 PM
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A birth and a death... yesterday in history, Sidney Poitier was born; Today in history... February 21st, 1965, Malcolm Little/Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was killed in New York City.

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January 25, 2012 6:17 PM
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Today in Cairo's Tahrir Square, thousands of Egyptians rallied to mark the first anniversary of the country's 2011 uprising that began on Jan. 25, 2011, which led to then president Hosni Mubarak officially stepping down on February11, 2011, only to be replaced by military rule; and thus, what has cpme to be known as the Egyptian revolution essentially continues...

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November 1, 2011 3:28 AM
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Today in history, November 1, 1954, in North Africa, Algerian nationalists began their successful 8-year rebellion against French rule - a period that's realistically and rivetingly documented in Gillo Pontecorvo's landmark 1966 film, Battle Of Algiers; a film we've mentioned a number of times previously on this site, and strongly recommend you see NOW if you haven't already!

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October 7, 2011 1:37 AM
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Didn't have time to post this yesterday... but yesterday in history, October 6th, 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded in talking pictures to prohibition era movie-going audiences. The film starring Al Jolson, features both silent and sound synchronized scenes.

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September 28, 2011 3:26 AM
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Today in history... September 28, 1991... Jazz legend Miles Davis died at age 65.

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September 11, 2011 6:38 AM
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First, if you live in New York City, TONIGHT, at 7:45PM, the Walter Reade theater at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, will be screening Spike Lee's 25th Hour - the first major motion picture shot on location in New York after September 11, 2001.

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September 7, 2011 4:39 AM
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Today in history... September 7, 1997... Congo/Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, died in exile in Morocco, from prostate cancer.

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September 1, 2011 2:01 AM
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Today in history, September 1, 1972... American chess legend Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky of the then Soviet Union to win the international chess crown in a match made for the cold war era, in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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August 30, 2011 3:34 AM
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Today in history... August 30th, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice.

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August 22, 2011 6:02 AM
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As we've already covered, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It celebrates its 25th anniversary this year; another title also celebrating a pivotal release anniversary this year is Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust - her challenging seminal feature film, set in the very early 1900s, which takes a look at Gullah Geechee culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; a film that, in 2004, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Malcolm X Was Killed Today... Watch Detailed Portrait Doc "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" Now

The Egyptian Revolution Started Today... Sundance Doc "1/2 Revolution" Captures The Uprising's Immediacy

Algerian Rebellion Against French Colonial Rule Began Today... ("Battle Of Algiers")

Talking Pictures Arrived On The Silver Screen Yesterday...

Miles Davis Died Today... Who'll Get To Play Him First On Film? Don Cheadle Or Snoop Dogg?

Commemorating 9/11 On Screen...

Mobutu Sese Seko Died Today… Watch "Mobutu, King of Zaire"

"Fresh" Chess Connections Starring Laurence Fishburne & Samuel L. Jackson (Today In History)

Thurgood Marshall Made History Today... Watch Laurence Fishburne Embody Him

Celebrating Julie Dash's "Daughters Of The Dust" 20-Year Anniversary

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