Listen to “Celebrating Black History with Seattle’s Kibibi Monie” on Spreaker.
In the 2nd episode of About Us, we will listen in on the opening of a Black History Celebration and World Cancer Day event held in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. The all-day gathering was Sponsored by Cierra Sisters and Langston. Seattle’s Kibibi Monie grounded the opening with a libation ceremony and call to our ancestors. Kibibi is known as one of the most exciting storytellers and performers in the Pacific Northwest. She is an activist and powerful woman who I was fortunate to meet last summer. We will talk to her about Black history and her life journey.
Update: The police officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson has been indited and will face a trial. Atatiana’d father, Marquis Jefferson, died from cardiac arrest. He was 59. Atatiana was 28.
Solider’s Story or Play?
If you have not seen a Soldier’s Story, you missed a superb movie. Nearly 40 years later, it is finally on Broadway in its original form, A Soldier’s Play.
The movie was a screen adaptation, written by the original play’s writer Charles Fuller, now 80.
In my opinion, both the play and the 1984 film are historic because of the quality of the writing, actors and the uncomfortable content.
Briefly, from Wikipedia, “The play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some African Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes.”
It is a must-see for those who love well-made movies.
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The Netflix series, Who Killed Malcolm X has helped lead to a review of the case and a new investigation to answer the question posed by the series.
Feel Good News:
Check out, Jonah Larson. He is a crochet prodigy.
What? Does that exist?
Yes, it’s real, and Jonah is good.
He’s 11 years old and has a successful business selling his crochet. Jonah regularly donates his work and proceeds from sales to Roots Ethiopia, an organization that benefits the region where he was born and the orphanage where he lived before his family, the Larsons, adopted him at 5 months old.
Jonah Larson is from La Crosse and is on NBC’s show, Little Big Shots. https://t.co/IJYV7vnp1H
— NBC15 News (@nbc15_madison) February 29, 2020
