This is our future with these flock cameras. They really tried getting her for a crime she didn’t commit simply because she was in the area and they used the cameras as evidence
Idris Elba says he was given one warning before auditioning for The Wire: don’t let them know you’re British.
Trevor Noah: “I’ve seen people get shocked when they find out you’re not American.”
Idris Elba: “I was unemployed, bro.”
“I was living in New Jersey. I was bartending, working the door, DJing.”
“Before you know it, you just start speaking like an American.”
“Then my casting director said, ‘This thing has come up. It’s called The Wire.’”
“‘But if you go in, you cannot let them know you aren’t American.’”
“‘This is about Baltimore. It’s very specific.’”
“So I auditioned for four weeks straight in an American accent.”
“Then at the fourth audition, they looked at me and said…”
“‘Idris… where are you from?’”
Trevor Noah: “‘Where are you from?’ That’s the phrase every immigrant is terrified of hearing.”
Idris Elba: “My palms started sweating.”
“I’m thinking… they told you not to say anything.”
“I looked at them and said…”
“‘I’m from East London.’”
“The room just exploded.”
“‘Oh my God… we had a bet.’”
“‘We knew you weren’t from Baltimore or Brooklyn, but we never guessed England.’”
“‘You got the job.’”
“‘We don’t want you to play Avon.”
“We want you to play Stringer Bell.’”
“I walked out thinking…”
“‘Did my life just change?’”
Congresswoman @JasmineForUS with a message for all of us at the Black Excellence Brunch.
Usually I would cut at the parts people walked through but everything she said needs to be heard by our community.
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
Wow. They were able to track down the slaves who built the White House. Y’all can never make me hate what our Ancestors Built.
Happy 4th, Black America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I always think of the part in Bill Burr’s legendary Philly Rant where he told the crowd that the city built a statue of a fictional Rocky because they couldn’t tolerate Joe Frazier because he was Black.
Burr is one of my favorite comedians and always tells it like it is. 😂
Thank you for telling the truth.
Frederick Douglass asked this country one question in 1852. This country has spent the last 174 years, avoiding the answers.
When Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Johnny Sample and Harry Edwards pull back the curtain on what fans never see unequal contracts, token progress, corporate power, and the pressure placed on Black athletes to stay silent.
📽️ : Black Journal
Stacey Abrams breaks down Donald Trump’s calculated march toward authoritarian rule. She connects the dots with surgical precision: discredit the media, undermine the courts, politicize law enforcement, and attack elections. It’s a playbook.
#America250Year#AmericaNow#America
The Black King (1932) was a film aimed at slandering and discrediting the Honorable Marcus Garvey & the U.N.I.A. A film made while Garvey was still alive. The United States government's campaign against Garvey and his supporters was treacherous.
📽️: globalafricanconnection