No looking kung fu style - Bolo Yeung in 10 Magnificent Killers 🎥
Most people know Bolo as the man with the big muscles, mainly from American movies, but few know how agile and mobile he was in his youth! Wishing him a powerful 80th birthday! 🎂
#BoloYeung#kungfumovie
The Roots ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff and Jazzyfatnastees― “The Next Movement”
The Erykah Badu featured "You Got Me" was the definitive track off "Things Fall Apart", but this was one for the heads.
Timeless blueprint for live boom-bap hip hop.
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Because of #DannyGlover and others, Black Studies was created as an academic discipline and SFSU became home of the only College of Ethnic Studies.
It was at SFSU that he became involved with the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s and became an actor.
Victor Wembanyama reads a Harry Potter book at a park.
“He’s the most brilliant player since Albert Einstein.” -media
Jaylen Brown became the youngest person in American history to lecture at Harvard, collaborated with MIT on the Bridge Program, which focuses on getting Black youth in Boston into STEM, became the youngest elected vice president of the NBA Players Association, speaks fluent Spanish, has a nonprofit called Boston Xchange inspired by Black Wall Street, whose goal is to generate $5 billion in additional generational wealth for marginalized communities, all while becoming Finals MVP. Also, his mother has a Ph.D.
“It’s a disease that he’s so smart and he’s not marketable.” - media
Some mediocre, insecure white people seem to believe that if you’re not mixed with white, you can’t be brilliant. To cope with that belief, they dismiss exceptional Black people as “arrogant” or invent some other negative narrative like affirmative action and DEI to cope better.
Bobby Hutton was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. After being bombed with tear gas and trapped in a burning basement, he came out shirtless to prove he was unarmed and the police immediately shot him 12 times and he died. He was just 17 years old.
🆕 THE BREAK 🆕
Fat Nwigwe is ushering in her Queen Mother era. The Houston rapper is stepping out on her own after spending years as a magnetic presence featured in her husband Tobe Nwigwe’s artistry. She pairs commanding delivery with dynamic production showcased on songs like “Fye Fye” and her debut single “Queen.”
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Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph revealed they once offered to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for just $50 million after the company was on track to lose $50 million in a single year. Blockbuster’s board laughed them out of the room.
“We tried going to Blockbuster. We tried reaching out to them for months”
“We were doing $5 Million a year, they were doing $6 Billion a year. We had 150 employees, they had 60,000 and we see like an ant to an elephant”
“It took months and finally we got the call and we were at a corporate retreat and all I had with me was shorts, T-shirt and thong sandals and that’s when Blockbuster called”
“They go ‘we’d like to see you tomorrow in Dallas’ and I remember turning to Reed and going ‘there’s no way’”
“And so we did the prudent thing you do when you’re $50 Million in a hole and we took a corporate jet and we fly to Dallas and go up to the 28th floor of this massive sky scrapper into this conference room”
“In come the Blockbuster guys and we make our pitch ‘you run the stores, we run the online business. We will build a blended model’ and it was going good”
“And they asked the big question.. How much and we had rehearsed on the plane”
“We were $50 Million in the hole so we go $50 Million and then there’s this silence in the room and we’re looking at them Blockbuster executives trying to piece together their emotions”
“And it dawned on us they were trying to suppress laughter”